SFA Hospitality in Switzerland

Greetings from Switzerland! Seventeen SFA students, many of them in the Hospitality program are touring Switzerland and France during the Maymester. We arrived today - Carol Bradley and myself, Chay Runnels, are supervising this group.

Highlights of today:

An impromptu visit to Zurich. Described by the students as a small New York City, Zurich is situated on a lake with a beautiful clear river running through it. Carol Bradley and I climbed up to the top of the Grossmunster church and then visited the Chagall windows at the Fraumunster chuch. The students sampled Turkish food, visited a butchershop and took in the high end stores that Zurich has to offer. The afternoon rain storm didn't dampen anyone's spirits.

• We arrived in Engelberg around 3 p.m. We will be here for a week. We took a walking tour of this Alpine city and had a lovely dinner and reception in our hotel. The dinner included a fresh appetizer of cheese and bread, lasagna with fresh creamy ricotta cheese and creme brulee. As a surpirse the students celebrated my birthday along with the birthday of another student on the trip with a decadent chocolate ganache torte.


• Tomorrow we will tour a monastary, see a cheese factory and visit a casino in Lucerne. We are having a great time!

Hospitality Update

It's been a long time since this blog has been updated, but the SFA hospitality program has certainly not been idle!

In November, students under the direction of Dr. Carl Pfaffenberg planned and produced the first ever Pineapple Awards event. The event honored Bruce White of White Lodging and featured a dinner at the Baker Pattillo Student Center on the SFA Campus. The students did a great job and raised over $5000 for the hospitality administration program.

We continue to see enrollment increase in the hospitality program. Right now we have over 160 hospitality majors and are busting at the seams! Dr. Wittenbach's quantity foods class is the largest ever, and the students will soon be having functions on both Tuesdays and Thursdays. The students do a fantastic job with their quantity functions. Tickets are open to the public, and are just $10. The schedule for the remaining functions are:

March 26—Cajun
April 2—Indian
April 16—50’s
April 23—Cuban
April 30—Titanic
May 7—French

Email Dr. Wittenbach swittenbach@sfasu.edu, if you are interested in attending. Remember, space is limited to 32 guest for each function!

HMS 220 Demo

Look how easy it is! Anyone can do it!