Over 100 LBCC students were given free breakfast items like burritos, fruit bowls, orange juice and hot coffee at the TCC campus on Sept. 3.
The Better Breakfast event was held by The Basic Needs Program for LBCC students with registered ID’s.
Due to the high volume of students that attended, the event lasted around an hour despite being planned to run for three.
Efrain Lopez, an LBCC alum, now a Basic Needs assistant, felt that the Better Breakfast event allowed students who didn’t have time for breakfast to eat.
“I was a LBCC student and these were real life scenarios man, it’s not even that we wanna wake up late or that we don’t have time right, we’re really focused on our studies too man… (students) can wake up late, pull up here, and get a breakfast,” Lopez said.
LAC Basic Needs assistant Vanessa Morales mentioned that word of mouth contributes to the popularity of the free breakfast events at both campuses.
Morales spoke about the popularity of the first breakfast event of the semester at LAC, which happened on August 26.
“Last month you know it was crazy that we kinda finished in under an hour, so students were coming by and they’re like, ‘Hey, what happened like you know you’re supposed to be set up and I don’t see a set up’ and we have to tell them we just ran out already,” Morales said.
Richard Tawri, a current LBCC student, attended the Better Breakfast event for the first time and praised the convenience provided by the program.
“This is so important because students can come here and eat… this is my first time doing that, so for me I appreciate that,” Tawri said.
Free breakfasts will be given out for the semester on both campuses.
Better Breakfast will occur every first Tuesday of the month at LAC and every first Wednesday at the TTC campus.
All events will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
