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10 colleges with the best campus food

Virginia Tech and Washington University in St. Louis top Niche’s list of colleges with the best campus food.

Operations

University takes a new route with traditional dining

Purdue University students can now use their dining dollars and Boiler Express funds at The Daily Bite, the campus’ new food truck.

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Between 2013 and 2014, campuses saw a 60 percent increase in regional and local food initiatives.

Hundreds of people gathered Sunday for the second annual University of Minnesota Duluth Food and Farm Festival to celebrate a harvest that supplies the university with thousands of pounds of food.

Columbia University’s Emergency Meal Fund allows food insecure students to receive up to six meal vouchers per semester from fellow students who have donated meals. Meanwhile, the student-developed Swipes app aims to match students who need dining hall meals with students who have extra.

After a campus-wide survey found students wanted a variety of better food, Central Washington University has added more Asian selections, organic and gluten-free options, as well as all-day breakfast and hot sandwiches.

Starting this year, students who are not on a meal plan will have to pay sales tax at Northwestern University dining halls.

A team of Boston University students created an app, BU Food, which lets peers see menus at all dining locations and enables them to look at nutritional benefits.

While the Avian Flu has yet to impact the state’s public universities, Quinnipiac University and Albertus Magnus College have cut down—and are even working on eliminating—the use of eggs at breakfast.

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