After the overwhelmingly positive response from students to their new cozy, homestyle Sunday Dinner, Fac Shack has announced that, beginning next week, they will also offer diners a bedtime story and kiss goodnight. After chowing down on one of their new Italian entrees, students’ favorite shack will also allow them a choice between two bedtime stories: “The Three Little Pigs,” or the vegan option, “Rumplestiltskin.”
After students select a story and squeal, “Story, story, story! Pretty please?”, a Columbia Dining employee will accompany them back to their dorm room. Once there, the employees will sit at students’ bedsides, tuck them in, and read aloud to them from the corresponding picture book. Naturally, students will have the option to request from their reader that they “do the silly voices!”
If they aren’t asleep by the end of the story, students can also request that dining employees soothingly sing “Rock-a-bye Baby.” Once students have been lulled to sleep by the dulcet tones of one of Columbia Dining’s finest lullaby staffers, the reader will quietly shut the book, give the student a light, doting kiss on the forehead, and turn off the light before quietly slipping out of the room and back to Fac Shack.
Students are reportedly thrilled about the new program. Our dining insiders have hinted that this enthusiasm may lead other dining halls to similarly expand their services: a Chef Mike’s swipe will include “a backyard game of catch” with Chef Mike himself, and Ferris will offer students the chance to “play dress-up.”
