Verde Café manager, Kelly Foy, becomes catering manager for Prescott Student café and Executive Chef District wide; other employee will continue in job as part-time non-credit culinary worker
The decision to close down the Student Café on the Verde Valley Campus was made by Yavapai Community College’s Prescott based Executive Leadership Team (ELT). The Yavapai Community College Sedona/Verde Valley Campus Dean is not formally included among this group of decision makers.
The decision was apparently based on financial concerns. The Executives concluded that replacing the Verde Valley Campus Café with vending machines run by an outside company could generate more money that the Café run by one full-time and one half-time person. The outside company has already installed vending machines at CTEC, the Prescott Valley Center, and on the Prescott Campus. (The Prescott Campus vending machines are in addition to the Eatery seven day year round student Café operated there and are located apart from the Cafe.)
Kelly Foy was hired in 2022 as the manager and instructor for the Verde Valley Campus Café. In a press release from the time she was hired, the Community College quoted Foy as aiming at “creating the teaching restaurant for YC because she loves cooking, loves teaching and believes hands-on experience is invaluable for students. `I’m drawn to teaching that involves actually doing the work at the same time,” Kelley said adding, “I want to be part of the direction the college is going’ — that is providing life-lifting career opportunities for individuals and strengthening our local economy.”
Foy’s new assignment is that of catering manager for the Prescott Student café and Executive Chef District wide. The other employee will continue in job for the Community College as part-time non-credit culinary worker (a little unclear).