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UConn mac and cheese incident spawns fundraisers

This undated photo provided by the University of Connecticut police department shows student Luke Gatti, 19, of Bayville, N.Y., who was arrested Sunday night, Oct. 4, 2015, following an altercation over purchasing macaroni and cheese at a market on the school's Storrs, Conn., campus. A 9-minute, obscenity-laced video clip went viral, showing Gatti arguing with and eventually shoving a manager at a food court inside the school's student union. (University of Connecticut Police Department via AP) This undated photo provided by the University of Connecticut police department shows student Luke Gatti, 19, of Bayville, N.Y., who was arrested Sunday night, Oct. 4, 2015, following an altercation over purchasing macaroni and cheese at a market on the school's Storrs, Conn., campus. A 9-minute, obscenity-laced video clip went viral, showing Gatti arguing with and eventually shoving a manager at a food court inside the school's student union. (University of Connecticut Police Department via AP)

By Associated Press October 11, 2015 1 min read

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Members of the UConn community have begun a couple of fundraisers hoping to offset the negative image generated by a video of a student berating food service workers who refused to sell him jalapeno-bacon macaroni and cheese.

Freshman Sadie Rumsey set up a page on GoFundme.com to give the workers involved a night out. As of Sunday, her page had collected more than $1,300.

A local restaurant, D.P. Dough, began adding jalapeno to its bacon mac and cheese calzones after last Sunday’s incident. It has donated $600 to a children’s cancer charity from the profits.

Franchise owner Cory Hill says he’s gone through 125 pounds of macaroni and cheese this week, up from the usual 20.

Freshman Luke Gatti is due in court Tuesday on charges of breach of peace and criminal trespass.