The Culinary Department at the Joseph P. Keefe Technical School runs the East Side Room Restaurant Tuesday through Friday.
As part of the program, students plan the menus, identify portions sizes, select and order food for the menu and prepare and serve the food.
The students run the restaurant and a bakery, which sells cookies and pastries.
Metro West Harvest is a food rescue program that was founded in 1989 to help solve Framingham's hunger problems. Its volunteers assist in gathering and delivering food and prepared meals to needy shelters, pantries and families in the area. Metro West Harvest is 100% volunteer operated.