Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the UTSA newsletter The Roadrunner on Oct. 24, 1988.
(Aug. 30, 2019) — In nine years as director of food services at UTSA, Carol Schafer has seen the facility grow from a single cafeteria to a four-unit operation. In addition to operating the JPL cafeteria, the food service opened the Subway sandwich shop in 1982, the Central Park Cafeteria in the University Center in 1986 and the Activity Center Grill in 1987. The units serve between 6,000 and 7,000 people a day.
Schafer came to UTSA almost by accident. “I moved away from Texas in 1970, just after the Texas legislature had approved the bill appropriating an extension of the UT System,” she explains. “When I came back to San Antonio to visit my newborn granddaughter in 1979, nobody I asked knew anything about UTSA. I came to look it over, checked by the personnel office to see if there was anything available in residents’ dining and ended a week’s vacation with a job as director of food services. I have had a delightful association with the university ever since.”
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