{"id":105199,"date":"2017-01-13T12:07:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T17:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=105199"},"modified":"2023-11-21T11:08:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T16:08:17","slug":"bates-at-night-bobcat-den-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2017\/01\/13\/bates-at-night-bobcat-den-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates at Night: Bobcat Den Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday evening, as the first week of classes awakened campus from its winter slumber, Kurt Niiler \u201918 of Freedom, N.H., and his Bobcat Den Delivery staff already had their work cut out for them. As soon as their student-developed app was turned on, the orders \u201cstarted popping,\u201d says Niiler. \u201cEleven in the first 10 minutes!\u201d<\/p>\n\t\n\t

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Hadley Moreau '19 of Falmouth, Maine cycles across campus on a Den Delivery run.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Hadley Moreau '19 of Falmouth, Maine delivers a meal to Rafi Wolfson '19 of Riverside, R.I.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Thorn Merrill '18 of Morrisville, Vt., displays the Den Delivery trucker hat as orders come in.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Thorn Merrill '18 of Morrisville, Vt., packs up several orders for delivery.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Kurt Niiler '18 of Freedom, N.H., Thorn Merrill '18 of Morrisville, Vt., and Hadley Moreau '19 of Falmouth, Maine await incoming orders.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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The new app, developed by last year\u2019s staff, makes ordering \u00ad\u2014 and fulfillment \u2014 a breeze. Customers enter their order and location, the information populates a spreadsheet that the team views on laptops at the Den, and Den staffers fill the orders.<\/p>\n

Then, the Bobcat Den Delivery team groups the orders \u00a0in backpacks and delivers them across campus via bicycle.<\/p>\n

The delivery staff, which on Wednesday comprised Niiler, Thorn Merrill \u201919 of Morrisville, Vt., and Hadley Moreau \u201919 of Falmouth, Maine, gains an intricate knowledge of Bates geography.<\/p>\n

As Merrill explains, \u201cIt forces you to really know the Bates campus\u201d \u2014 for example, \u201cthings like what rooms are mountain side and street side\u201d at the 280 College Street residence \u201cand where all the different Wood Street houses are.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is no typical Den Delivery customer. Some were studying, some were with a group of friends, and still others were alone in pajamas, watching Netflix. All of them were hungry.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach shift, you experience this mosaic of Bates campus life,\u201d Niiler says. \u201cI think it’s a pretty unique experience to have, and it’s cool to get to know some of these people you might not have crossed paths with otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n

The service is available from 9 p.m. until midnight, Sunday through Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From den to dorm, a nighttime look at the Bobcat Den Delivery operation on Jan. 11, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":105204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[223,11012],"tags":[11217,251,11279,1417,10433,8246],"class_list":["post-105199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slideshow","category-student-life","tag-bates-at-night","tag-bobcat-den","tag-bobcat-den-delivery","tag-dining-services","tag-slideshow-2","tag-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105199"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105225,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105199\/revisions\/105225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}