重新设计的千禧用餐时间：Albert Nichols ' 05

When Albert Nichols ‘05 first sat down in the 贝博体彩app dining room as a new seventh grader, he might not have recognized it as a business opportunity. However, almost 15 years later, Albert’s dining experiences at 贝博体彩app and Deerfield have inspired Hall, the subscription-based dining hall he recently opened in Boston’s 回来 Bay.

 

我在缅因州长大，在尼科尔斯家吃晚餐是忙碌一天结束后彼此叙叙旧和交流的好机会。 这种公共用餐体验在费伊和迪尔菲尔德继续着，那里的饭菜是家庭式的，食堂是学生们社交、互动和相互了解的地方。

 

但艾伯特大学毕业后，一切都变了。 “All these things that I had taken for granted—the socialization, seeing classmates and friends, and the opportunity to meet people—just disappeared,” he recalls. 像他的大多数同龄人一样，艾伯特突然发现自己下班后站在超市的收银台前，花了相当多的钱买不太健康的食物，然后在他的公寓里自己吃。 他觉得自己陷入了一个极度低效和孤立的循环中。 “There’s a reason why people have come together in large groups to eat for millennia,” he points out.

 

Albert recalled how there was always one kid’s room in the 贝博体彩app dorms where everyone gathered to hang out. 本着这种精神，他开始每周一晚上在公寓里举办非正式晚宴，并邀请他的朋友们一起参加。 这个提议很简单。 艾伯特会提供一顿基本的家常菜，人们可以来这里闲逛、工作、社交，或者把食物带走。 “More and more people began to come, and I realized that there was value here,” says Albert. 这段经历成为霍尔人生的起点。

 

Hall位于后湾中心的格洛斯特街（Gloucester Street），是一个灵活的空间，会员可以在周日至周四享用健康的家常菜。 会员可以吃一顿快餐然后离开，会见朋友和社交，或者只是把他们的晚餐带走。 从早上6点到午夜每天，大厅可用于私人聚会周五和周六和开放的会员在白天，抢一杯咖啡，举办商务会议，或只是从日常工作中休息一下。 霍尔餐厅提供的饭菜与20多岁的普通年轻人的烹饪曲目相去甚远。 每个工作日的晚上，霍尔提供一个清淡的晚餐选择，素食，不含麸质，乳制品，贝类和坚果。 它们还提供了不添加盐或脂肪的更健康的选择。 每周花69美元，会员们就可以吃鹰嘴豆意面、小麦和排骨，或者烤鸡tikka masala配烤西兰花和茉莉花饭。

 

大厅空间简单地装饰了各种不同的空间，从工作区，到灵活的社交空间，再到用餐区，成员可以在那里吃饭、闲逛或吃饭。 阿尔伯特在设计大厅时带有对个人的尊重，这是他在贝博体育期间培养的一种价值观。 “贝博体育app encouraged me to look at people and understand where they are from and what makes them different from me,” says Albert. “At Hall, we didn’t want to make the space uniform. We didn’t want to force people into an idea of how people should eat and what the space should look like,” says Albert. “Our goal is to build spaces where individuals can come together.”