Thursday after­noon at approx­i­mately 3 p.m., Ferris’ Rock Cafe’s hot water pump stopped working.

A replace­ment hot water pump arrived Friday morn­ing, but was also unable to be used because of a bro­ken part upon arrival. This was dis­cov­ered after the replace­ment instal­la­tion process was com­plete, and nor­mal dish­ware was set out as usual.

“There is plenty of hot water and this should not cause any inter­rup­tions to ser­vices at all,” said Mark Arnold, assis­tant man­ager for the Rock Cafe.

The usual plates, glasses, bowls and sil­ver­ware used in the din­ing room were replaced with paper and plas­tic prod­ucts until the repair. After the unsuc­cess­ful repair the dish­ware was replaced again.

“It’s a slight incon­ve­nience because we had to replace all of our dish­ware. Then we started to trans­form back to nor­mal and now it’s the sec­ond time we’ve switched around,” said Clairrissa McNair, stu­dent Rock Cafe employee.

The water line under the build­ing is full of hot water, but the Rock Cafe has no way of get­ting the water out until the next hot water pump arrives.

Until then, stu­dents, fac­ulty and com­mu­nity mem­bers will be eat­ing their meals with a plas­tic fork, knife and spoon on top of a Styrofoam plate.

Arnold said the Rock Cafe should be fine over the week­end and is hop­ing for a new work­ing hot water pump to arrive early next week.

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