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...Shaffer, who makes the recordings from Wednesday through Saturday, is the meat and potatoes of the hotline. However, Shaffer, a food service supervisor at the Freshman Union, refuses to take credit for the idea...
...hotline was suggested years before I came [to the Union] by my manager," Shaffer says. He adds that there was no need for the hotline at that time because not many students called the Union to find out about the day's menu...
...past few years, Shaffer says, calls have increased dramatically, typing up food service employees at their busiest time. So, Shaffer says he submitted a proposal for the hotline to his superiors, who agreed that the dial-a-menu's day had finally come...
...Shaffer speculates that students have become more interested in knowing the menu before arriving at the dining hall because they "are lazier today." He adds, "If they are studying in the library, they want to know whether it is worth it to leave the books...
...Shaffer says it is not just laziness that created the demand for the hotline. Freshman proctors are partly to blame...