PHOTO GALLERY: The Gathering Place holds 10,000th breakfast

UM System President Tim Wolfe, left, and Don Laird, president of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce, listen to student workers introduce themselves Tuesday morning at The Gathering Place Bed and Breakfast.   |  Robert Swain

Marc Strid, innkeeper at The Gathering Place, pan fries breaded pork loin at the bed-and-breakfast's 10,000th breakfast Tuesday. Strid is also the educational technologies director at the MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources.   |  Robert Swain

Nakisha Wilson serves coffee to Tom Payne, vice chancellor and dean of the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources during The Gathering Place Bed and Breakfast's 10,000th breakfast Tuesday. “You get used to it,” said Wilson, a senior in the hospitality management program at MU. “We have some pretty prestigious guests here.”   |  Robert Swain

Taylor Courchaine, a junior in the hospitality management program at MU, makes white silk tartlets Tuesday at The Gathering Place.   |  Robert Swain

Debbie Strid, the innkeeper of The Gathering Place Bed and Breakfast, speaks to student servers Nakisha Wilson and Amilinn Starks on Tuesday. Debbie Strid and her husband, Marc Strid, have been running The Gathering Place since it formed a relationship with MU in 2008.   |  Robert Swain