There are always turkey leftovers after Thanksgiving.But LSU Dining began its annual Thanksgiving Buffet on Monday for students who can’t wait to get their turkey fix. The buffet will continue today and Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Faculty Club.”It sells out every year,” said David Heidke, LSU Dining director. “It’s just a wonderful tradition that we’re happy to continue to do. It’s open to everyone. We do get a number of off-campus guests.”The Faculty Club Thanksgiving Buffet, which costs $14.99 per person, features a menu of hot cranberry juice, roasted butternut squash soup, a fall harvest salad with apple vinaigrette, blueberry and cornbread stuffed pork loin, cranberry sauce, green bean casserole, sugar-cane roasted potatoes, orange muffins and rolls, assorted desserts and roasted turkey with giblet gravy.”It’s Thanksgiving, and we like to try and offer the University an opportunity to come in and have a traditional Thanksgiving meal,” said Charles Casrill, Faculty Club director. “Some people don’t have the opportunity to get home, and it kicks off the holiday for them.”Casrill said the Faculty Club has served a Thanksgiving buffet for at least 20 years.Sarah Edwards, nutritional sciences junior, said the Faculty Club is fancier than she originally thought with white table cloths, silverware and a formally dressed staff.Edwards said LSU Dining includes the entire community in the Thanksgiving holiday by providing opportunities to serve Thanksgiving menus.Jonathan Miller, Faculty Club restaurant and catering manager, said in addition to students, faculty and staff, many Baton Rouge families come to enjoy the buffet.Heidke said all the dining facilities will be closed Thursday and Friday during the Thanksgiving holidays. He said LSU Dining already collaborated a Thanksgiving meal with Residential Life during the first week of November.Heidke said the two departments didn’t want students to have too much turkey at one time, so they held a celebration earlier in the month.Nguyen Lam, nutritional sciences junior, said LSU Dining needs to do a better job of marketing and planning meals like the Thanksgiving Buffet to “make them more available” to students.”[The Thanksgiving Buffet] is a prize for college students,” Lam said. “It’s still a work in progress. There needs to be more student involvement.”The Magnolia Room Restaurant in the LSU Student Union will feature a Thanksgiving menu today as well. The restaurant will serve turkey and andouille gumbo, holiday ham with pineapple, turkey and giblet gravy, cornbread dressing, candied yams with marshmallows and pecans, green bean casserole and assorted desserts.”[The Magnolia Room] is substituting a Thanksgiving menu for the regular menu,” said Jeri McCullough, LSU Dining marketing director. “When you celebrate Thanksgiving, you do it with food. We want to keep it with that trend.”McCullough said LSU Dining’s Thanksgiving menu options give all students a chance to experience Thanksgiving dinner.Cash, Paw Points, TigerCASH, credit cards and checks are all accepted payment options in both the Faculty Club and Magnolia Room Restaurant.- – – -Contact Mary Walker Baus at [email protected]