Refrigerators in Common Areas

 

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On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Mary Korte wrote:

> Colleagues,
> Our university is thinking about putting refrigerators in common areas
> (the university center and some academic buildings) for use by our
> commuter students.  Has anyone ever heard of regulations and/or liability
> issues regarding a unit shutting down and food spoiling, possible food
> tampering, etc?  This is one of those "simple" things that may not be so
> simple and we wondered if anyone else had dealt with this issue before.
> Thank you in advance for your assistance.
>
> Mary A. Korte
> Director of Residential Life
> Maryville University of St. Louis
> 13550 Conway Rd.
> St. Louis, MO  63141
> phone:  314/529-9552
> Fax:  314/542-9085
> [email removed]
> www.maryville.edu

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 Good luck.  We had some refrigerators in common areas and they just
became unplugged every couple of weeks or so.  Our custodial staff was
cleaning these every so often.  It was always full of food that no one
claimed (most of it smelling very badly!).
 

Pat Whyte
lssu
 
 

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