During its time of opening in 1954, the Food Service building was one of the finest Souteast, it contained some of the newest methods of storage and refrigeration.
"On May 7, 1956 at the presentation luncheon in the Sheraton Hotel, Chicago, Leland E. Crenshaw, director of food service, accepted for the hospital the 1956 Food Service Award national honor plaque…for outstanding ahievement in food service…
In this pamphlet, there is an image of a "gravy train" and the Hospital had two of these in order to deliver hot meal containers to various dining halls on the Bull Street Campus. It states that "Patients and hospital employees get identical fare."