{"id":57298,"date":"2017-03-09T15:30:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T01:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=57298"},"modified":"2019-02-28T16:07:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T02:07:22","slug":"leis-family-class-act-restaurant-featured-in-maui-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/09\/leis-family-class-act-restaurant-featured-in-maui-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Lei\u2019s Family Class Act restaurant featured in Maui Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/itKdmExkm5s\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Leis Family Class Act Restaurant at the <a href=\"http:\/\/maui.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Maui College<\/a> may look like a business, but it&#8217;s a class, and an important one. <a href=\"http:\/\/maui.hawaii.edu\/culinary\/\">Culinary students<\/a> prepare, present and serve a lavish four-course lunch, with an international menu that changes weekly. <em>Maui Now&#8217;s<\/em> Kiaora Bohlool featured the restaurant in a story on February 23.<\/p>\n<p>From <em>Maui Now<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>Students from the <a href=\"http:\/\/maui.hawaii.edu\/culinary\/\">Advanced Cooking and Dining Room<\/a> courses come together to serve a lavish lunch two times a week during the semester, honing skills in both the front and back of the house.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;After eight weeks, they switch; they cook while the other half serves,&rdquo; explains Chef Instructor <strong>Tom Lelli<\/strong>, who leads the kitchen at Class Act. &ldquo;Then at the end of eight weeks, they run the restaurant by themselves; we call it Student Day.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Malone says the transition from cook to server can be a scary one for students, who need to present each course on the ever-changing menu.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We take them and put them in the front of the house, out of their element, where they have to be in front of the guest and on stage if you would, and get them set up for success,&rdquo; Malone explains. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mauinow.com\/2017\/02\/23\/learning-with-your-lunch-at-leis-class-act\/\">For the full story to the <em>Maui Now<\/em> website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/maui-culinary-maui-now.jpg\" alt=\"Lei Class Act restaurant\" width=\"620\" height=\"331\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/maui-culinary-maui-now.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/maui-culinary-maui-now-260x139.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>Maui College culinary program featured in <em>Maui Now<\/em> video and news story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":57310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[184,60,56],"class_list":["post-57298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-culinary","tag-maui-college","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/maui-culinary-maui-now.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57298"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78683,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57298\/revisions\/78683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}