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Lindsey Ramsey

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Skidmore Eat Healthy Strives to Improve Wellness

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.—Achieving wellness requires information, and that is exactly what a new wellness program launching this month at 2,400-student Skidmore College hopes to provide to its cus...

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Encouraging Health for All

Education is key to both the employee and student wellness programs at 32,300-student West Virginia University.

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Gourmet Dining Keeps Retail Innovative

Gourmet Dining, a regional foodservice management company, believes in working closely with customers to customize each unit to that location’s needs. With 17 accounts, mostly in college dining, each Gourmet Dining location offers something distinct

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Ye Olde Dairy

Going to The Dairy at the University of Maryland is like going back in time—in more ways than one. Not only is this retail shop contained in a space that, according to head baker and pastry chef Jeff Russo, “has an old-style, 1930s or ’4

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Hidden Gem

Tucked away inside a bustling campus building at 11,300-student Washington University in St. Louis is an intimate 50-seat restaurant called Ibby’s, the newest addition to Bon Appétit’s dining program at the university.

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Restaurant-Quality Retail

A renovation and an addition to the campus’ student center greatly increased the retail offerings at the 32,400-student University of Missouri, according to Alan Petersen, manager of student center dining. The new concepts—Do Mundo’s, Ka

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‘Last Drop’ Brings Retro Back to Life

Coffee shops on college campuses are now a well-known entity. The aesthetics are usually of the Starbucks-inspired variety—warm colors, comfy seating and dim lighting. Not the case with 12,700-student Vanderbilt University’s year-old Last Drop

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Peter Fischbach: Complacency Killer

Peter Fischbach considers complacency to be a dirty word, and the director of food services for Gourmet Dining Services at 9,500-student New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, N.J., fights against it every day.

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Noshing for Night Owls

Food trucks and late-night dining are two of the hottest trends on college campuses. At 2,400-student Rhode Island School of Design a mobile food truck, named Rosie, satisfies both trends.

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Kennesaw State Gets Wise with Wellness Program

When Culinary & Hospitality Services at 23,500-student Kennesaw State University opened its Commons Dining Hall in 2009, the department launched a wellness program to coincide with the hall’s debut. Since then, the Wise Choice wellness program h

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On sustainability teams, for Mark Petrino

When trash wasn’t being sorted properly at 30,000-student Colorado State University, in Fort Collins, dining services decided to get tough by forming a sustainability team called the Green Guard. Mark Petrino, senior associate director of residentia

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Solving the Purchasing Puzzle

Local, organic, natural, gluten free, healthy, authentic—the list of customers’ demands seems endless. However, actually meeting these demands comes with a litany of challenges. FSD spoke to operators about how they handle the challenges invol

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