The Student Activities Board’s Taste of Manning event will start three hours later than usual to accommodate Day of Service this Saturday.

“There just aren’t a lot of good weekends that work left so we didn’t want to switch it,” senior and SAB Events Team Lead Josiah Jagoda said. “But I actually think that it might work to our advantage. I think it could be a cool situation for people to work all morning and then come and get free food and coffee and relax.”

The event will run from 2 to 4 p.m. and will feature dishes from nine different houses on Manning Street. SAB will buy up to $100 worth of groceries for each house with one provision.

“We will not purchase alcohol for people, so if they want to do a vodka pasta or a beer cheese, they have to do that,” Jagoda said. “But as far as what can be physically served to the people, anything goes.”

After tasting the selection of entrees, students will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite dish.

Senior Stephen Berntson, who is living on Manning Street for the second year in a row, said one of his favorite entries from last year were the crab cakes made by the residents of Riverside. He said besides the fact that there is free food, Taste of Manning is a great opportunity to tap into the Hillsdale College community.

“It’s a wholesome way of seeing the different people of campus on Manning Street in the middle of the day,” Berntson said.

Jagoda said SAB hopes to have three student bands on site.

“They are newer bands with more underclassmen who do more bluegrass stuff,” Jagoda said.

He said he thinks the event will be a good opportunity for students who don’t normally get out to Manning Street to get familiar with the lay of the land.

“It gives people a glimpse into Hillsdale’s off-campus culture in a way that it’s not just they’re going to a house party, but they get to go and meet and talk with those people and hang out,” Jagoda said. “The vibe is also just always really good. It’s usually relatively nice out and you just get to drink coffee and chat and listen to music and that’s always a recipe for success.”