Campus Cooks is a food service program created in 1995 by Bill Reeder, a Northwestern graduate whose fraternity struggled with food quality, so he decided to hire a personal chef for the fraternity.

Now, Campus Cooks services more than 70 fraternities and sorority houses on 19 college campuses, including MSU, said Eric Thompson, Campus Cooks’ director of business development.

Two other houses at MSU also currently are using Campus Cooks, Kappa Alpha Theta and Pi Kappa Alpha.

Thompson said after Reeder’s experience at Northwestern, he believed fraternities and sororities deserved to be fed well with healthy, quality food — which also is a part of the company’s mission statement.

At the beginning of the year, Singer said several members opted to not pay for the Campus Cooks meal plan, but as the school year progressed, the students without meal plans saw benefits of the plan tempting them to buy the meal plan.

Singer said the meal plan costs $1,325 per student.

After talking to other Alpha Epsilon Pi chapters across the country who have used catering companies and not personal chefs, Singer decided Campus Cooks would be better than using a catering company, and he has found the brothers have been eating healthier than last year because cooks work to balance each meal.

“It’s incredibly convenient having a chef in the house,” Singer said. “If I’m sick and can’t make it to dinner, (I can go to the kitchen) and ask him to make me a plate of eggs.”

Alpha Epsilon Pi’s personal chef, Jason Hoffman, has been in the cooking industry for 15 years and said from his experiences involved in a fraternity, having to eat at campus cafeterias put a damper on his experience.

“They sit and mingle at times they generally would not,” Hoffman said. “It makes them more comfortable … and they’re extremely excited about what’s coming the next day.”