CELAB Reading Group Food Instructions

So you've [been] volunteered to provide food for CELAB lunch:

• You are tasked with deciding from which restaurant to order, choosing the food, ordering the food, and bringing it to the CELAB reading group meeting for the reading group members to eat while participating in the paper discussion. Just have the food delivered to BBB (2260 Hayward St.), or pick it up yourself, and bring it to the meeting.
• There are numerous places in town that will deliver food. Websites like EatBlue, for instance, have entire sections dedicated to restaurants that deliver. Also, see below (in the "As for the food" section) for some ideas of what kinds of food to order.
• Participating faculty members cover the costs of the food. Once you order the food, Steve Reger, Jamie Goldsmith and Yolonda Coleman at CSE Purchasing Team in 4808 BBB will help pay for the order. Please take the following steps while placing the order:
  1. Place the order
     • A. If you plan to order from one of the U of M contract food suppliers (listed below), you need to place the order with shortcode. You can get the shortcode by emailing CSE Purchasing Team and specify the faculty member sponsoring the lunch this week.
     • B. For other food suppliers, call the restaurant and place your order. Placing your order one day prior to your lunch is recommended. Let the restaurant know you are calling from the University of Michigan and someone will be calling them with the payment information within 24 hours. Please mention that the order is tax exempt. Once the order has been placed, email CSE Purchasing Team with the following information:
       • (a) Faculty Member sponsoring the lunch.
       • (b) Shortcode: (Leave this blank or ask CSE purchasing team in advance)
       • (c) Restaurant name
       • (d) Restaurant phone number
       • (e) Your order (this will help the purchaser confirm your order and make sure it is correct)
  2. Get itemized receipts for the food (and anything else).
  3. While collecting the order, please make sure that the tip combined is no more than $10.
  4. Get a sign-in sheet from 4644 BBB in the folder labelled "Hosting forms". (Speak to the purchasing team if this is empty). Pass the form around at the reading group meeting and try to make sure everyone has signed in. After the meeting, give this and the itemized receipts and the agenda(time, location, presenter name & paper title) to the purchasing team.

Organizational:

• Plan for about 20-30 people for winter 2022 (depending on recent turnouts - ask around)(Try to keep your order under $500 including delivery fee and tips) (Sample orders below are for meetings with around 40-45 people. Scale your order accordingly or ask the restaurant).
• Please don't order individual drinks (e.g. 12 oz. cans) for delivery to the reading group; these end up costing a large amount of money. If the restaurant won't deliver 2 liters, then everbody will be responsible for their own drinks or you as the food provider can pay for the cost of drinks out of your own pocket. Please do not purchase drinks on a separate bill, the cost of processing reimbursements for such small amounts is prohibitive.
• Try to keep the total cost of everything (food, drink, utensils, etc.) below $20 per person. If you want to spend more for a specific kind of food, speak with the professor who's footing the bill - they have the final say.

As for the food:

• Some of our number do not eat meat. Please remember to have some option for those folks. (example: if you're getting pizza, get some with just veggies or cheese).
• Some of our number are squeemish midwesterners. If possible, please try to have some kind of fairly bland option available for those who aren't too keen on the very different stuff. (example: I think we discovered that sushi didn't go over well with a few folks).
• Provide a variety of drinks (usually sodas) if you can. A distribution of: 2 cola, 1 diet, and 2 others (Mt. Dew, Root Beer, etc) works well.
• Bring the food to the meeting room (on the webpage) at 12:00.

Questions?E-mail Joy Dong or Shibo Chen

U of M Contract Food Suppliers

• Afternoon Delight
• Pizza House
• Cottage Inn
• Domino's Pizza
• Chela's Restaurant n Taqueria
• Siam Square
• Palm Palace
• Sava's
• Moveable Feast
• Paesano's
• Hungry Howie's
• Picasso Cafe
• Sweetwaters Coffee and Tea
• Knight's Steakhouse
• Earthen Jar
• Conor O'Neils
• Satchel's BBQ
• Panera Bread
• Ruth's Chris Ann Arbor
• New York Pizza Depot
• Christian's Catering
• Katherine's Catering
• Real Seafood Company - Ann Arbor
• Great Harvest Bread Company
• Food Art
• Angel Food Catering
• Cuppy's Best Soul Food Cafe
• Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches
• Qdoba Mexican Eats
• Di Bella Subs
• Baba Dari Mediterranean Grill
• Toarmina's Pizza n Burrito Joint
• Ahmo's Gyros and Deli
• Grand Traverse Pie Company
• Barry Bagel's
• Slurping Turtle
• El Harissa Market Cafe
• Tio's Mexican Cafe
• Chop House
• Washtenaw Dairy
• Brown Jug
• Lucky Kitchen
• Produce Station
• Simply Scrumptious Catering
• Zingerman's Catering
• Jamaican Jerk Pit

Example orders, from 2016(Target Attendance: 40-45. Please reduce the order size to target 20-30 for fall 2022):

• Jerusalem Garden:
  • 12 Falafel Sandwich with Hummus
  • 8 Chicken Schwarma Sandwich
  • 8 Kafta Kabob Sandwich
  • 8 Shih Kabob Sandwich
  • 2 Extra Large Hummus with Extra Pita
  • 2 2L Diet Coke
  • 1 2L Regular Coke
  • 1 2L Sprite
  • 35 Plate Sets
  • Total: $307.75 (without tip)
• Jet's Pizza:
  • 3 Large All Meaty
  • 4 Large Veggie
  • 2 Large BBQ Chicken
  • 2 Large Hawaiian
  • 1 2L Pepsi
  • 1 2L Diet Pepsi
  • 1 2L Mtn Dew
  • 1 2L Diet Mtn Dew
  • 35 Plates Sets
  • Total: ~ $200.00 (without tip)
• Taste of India
  • 1 Full Tray of Rice
  • 20 Naan (shallow full tray)
  • 1/2 Tray of Pakora
  • 1 Full of Chicken Tikka Masala
  • 1/2 Tray of Baingan Bartha
  • 1/2 Tray of Lamb Spinach
  • 1/2 Tray of Kadai Panir
  • 1 2L Pepsi
  • 1 2L Diet Pepsi
  • 1 2L Mtn Dew
  • 1 2L Diet Mtn Dew
  • 35 Plates Sets
  • Total: ~ $250.00 (without tip)
• Potbelly Sandwich Shop
  • 8 Turkey
  • 4 Tuna
  • 8 Wreck
  • 8 Beef
  • 8 Italian
  • 8 Vegetarian
  • 1 2L Coke
  • 1 2L Diet Coke
  • 1 2L Lemon-Lime
  • 1 2L Root Beer

• Cottage Inn:
  • 2 XL The Favorite
  • 2 XL Deluxe
  • 1 XL Hawaiian
  • 2 XL Chicken Parmesan
  • 2 XL Traditional Vegetarian
  • 2 XL Flavorful Vegetarian
  • 2 2L Diet Pepsi
  • 1 2L Pepsi
  • 1 2L Mountain Dew
  • 35 (Cup + Plate + Napkin)
  • Total: $227 (without tip)

• Marco's Pizza:
  • 4 large pepperoni + mushroom
  • 4 ham + bacon + pineapple
  • 4 mushroom + green pepper + onion
  • 2 2L Pepsi, 2 2L Diet Pepsi, 2 2L Sierra Mist
  • Total: $127.13 (without tip)
• Cottage Inn Pizza:
  • 3 Pesto Primavera
  • 3 Chicken Mushroom
  • 3 Deluxe
  • 3 Steak supreme
  • 1 2L Pepsi, 1 2L Diet Pepsi, 1 2L Sierra Mist
  • Total: $165 (without tip)
• Potbelly's
  • 6 Turkey
  • 4 Tuna
  • 6 Wreck
  • 8 Beef
  • 6 Italian
  • 6 Vegetarian
  • Total: $160 + tips + drinks
• Ahmo's
  • 10 Falafel wrap
  • 10 Ahmo's Gyro wrap
  • 5 Fiesty Gyro wrap
  • 5 Chicken Gyro wrap
  • 4 2L sodas
  • Total: $155 + tax + tip
• Anthony's Gourmet Pizza
  • Vegetarian Delight
  • Primavera
  • Island's superstar
  • Pepperoni
  • Cajun-spiced chicken breast + onion
  • Ground beef
  • Carnivorous delight
  • 4 2L sodas
  • Plates/cups/napkins/etc
  • Total: $187 (with tip)