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‘Eating Club’ Seeks to Build Community Through Home-Cooked Meals
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New student run take-out dining service, the Eating Club, is providing gourmet meals to students’ doors.
COVID-19
ILR Junior Provides A Sense of Home in a Time of Social Distancing
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This week Julia Lescht ’23 and I had the pleasure to meet Will Harvey ’22, founder of The Eating Club at Cornell University. As a current junior in the College of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), Harvey was inspired to launch The Eating Club as an affordable option for college students for homestyle meals.
The Eating Club offers a subscription based food service that caters and delivers meals to students’ doorsteps. Every Saturday, Harvey’s mother and grandfather prepare a delicious meal in Rochester, which is then transported to a packaging area in Ithaca and sent out for delivery between 4 and 5 p.m. Each meal includes a main dish, a side, a cookie and a bottle of Fiji water. The club’s mission is to provide a sense of comfort and community for students by providing them delicious, warm meals during a time when in-person activities are limited.
“Food is definitely a very communal activity,” Harvey said. “When you are eating food, normally, you are eating with other people.