Operations
University starts iPad tableside ordering
First Stop, the all-day breakfast restaurant at MapleStreet Station and in the West Lobby of Harris Dining Hall, is the only dining facility on campus that has students order and pay on iPads.
Operations
Bucknell students get new healthy eating tool
EatWell, Bucknell Dining Services' new web tool, allows students to plan their meals with the help of complete nutrition and allergy information.
We created a Sustainable Products Project blog using Blogspot, Google Maps and Google Earth. Once we identify local food items that we use they are imported into the blog. The item then has travel miles associated with it, location on campus where served and what makes it sustainable. Photos are also incorporated if available on Google Earth. Students and visitors can link to the blog from our homepage.
Helping University of Rhode Island students better manage their time was the top priority for Shaun Kavanagh, senior information technologist for dining services, and his team as they set out to develop a new mobile application for the department. “We saw a need,” Kavanagh explains. “More and more people aren’t going [to their laptops] for information, they’re going to their smartphone.”