The Keeter Center at College of the Ozarks - Lodging

Beautiful grounds, nice staff and delicious food. Especially accommodating to my gluten allergy.

While visiting my mother in law, we had lunch at the College of Ozark’s restaurant on October 30, 2017. I have celiac so they gave me their gluten free menu. I chose the chicken apple butter sandwich. Everything was good and the bread they brought me also tasted pretty good. It was advertised their bread was home made, but when I asked if I would be able to purchase some to go, I was told that it was sold in Walmart and I should be able to find it there. After we got home about three hours later I got horrendous stomach cramps. They continued to get worse. After about 2 hours of this pain, I vomited very violently. The pains continued. I never felt this bad in my life. I again vomited violently, never did I vomit so bad. By the next day, I finally felt a little better, but couldn’t eat anything without cramps for the next 4 days. I had thought maybe they mixed up and I got the bread that wasn’t gluten free, but it didn’t make sense since I never got that sick from gluten. It turned out it was food poisoning, because I had brought a little bit home in a sack and my husband had eaten it a couple days later and also got very sick. Although not as sick as I since I had eaten almost all of it and he had only a little bit. I gave this two stars rather than one, because this could be a one time error, but it should be noted it happened and people should be careful as this was a pretty severe case of food poisoning. I probably won’t go back. I also was very turned off that they buy their bread at Walmart so it makes me question what else if not real there. The Keeter Center is beautiful, I was quite impressed, but after reading about the reviews of the student facilities I was a bit turned off and I do question their motives, finances and integrity. Just read the review before mine who’s husband got sick for two days, so this may be happening more than it should.