College Cafeteria Kitchen (Campus Dining Service)

Steam and the clatter of trays define a narrow service alcove adjacent to a sunlit dining hall. Stainless counters, a pass-through window, and the tang of reheated coffee frame a cramped workroom that suddenly becomes a public battleground: a reporter bursts in, Edgar Drumm lunges a question, and Gina steps between camera and student. Noise curdles into sharp syllables as bodies pivot—food service rhythms interrupted by the shock of a physical intervention. Functionally this space converts casual campus intimacy into exposure and threat, smell and sound compressing into a pressure-cooker that forces a private moment into a political flashpoint. Decision note: treated as a distinct college cafeteria kitchen (not a domestic or White House kitchen) because existing matches are thematically and contextually different.