Provide Daystation Guests With Lunch
Our largest ongoing need is for volunteers to provide lunch for our Daystation guests. We serve lunch 365 days a year, seven days a week. Volunteers provide ingredients, prep, and serve meals. To learn more about what you need to prepare or to sign up, view all the information below.
If you have any questions about volunteering, organizing a drive, or putting on your own event for COTS, email our Communication & Events Manager at romyt@cotsonline.org.
Lunch Calendar
Daily Lunch
Help us provide lunch to guests visiting the Daystation, COTS’s daytime drop-in shelter for adults, open 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
The Daystation is located at 95 North Avenue in Burlington. You will see a gate that says welcome in different languages, enter through there.
This is a great service opportunity or team-building activity. There is staff on-site to help you navigate prepping and/or serving lunch.
- It's nice to have a vegetarian option and a meat option.
- Potluck style meals are welcome!
Lunch Examples
- Pasta with vegetable sauce and meat sauce.
- Chicken and vegetarian burrito bowls.
- Variety of sandwiches (turkey, ham, veggie), lettuce, tomato, for guests to add to their sandwiches. No condiments please!
- Marinated chicken thighs.
- Vegetarian chili.
- Meat and veggie lasagna.
- Soup or stew.
Various sides, drinks, and desserts are always welcome, too!
Prepping and Serving
Volunteers must be 18 years old to serve lunch. Families or groups with children can prepare the meal offsite and drop it off for our staff to serve.
Volunteers older than age 18 may use our kitchen to heat up or assemble meals to serve to Daystation guests. We recommend bringing no more than 8 people from your group because of limitations with space.
You can also do a cook out on our patio using our grill! Just be sure to mention this when you sign up below.
Treat the Daystation to Lunch
Not a cook but still want to take the Daystation to lunch? Just be sure to fill out the lunch sign up form to save the date, and include any necessary information!
- Reach out to your favorite local caterer.
- Order pizzas from a local pizzeria.
- Other similar to-go dishes are also awesome.
- All types of foods are so appreciated!
Lunch FAQs
