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Playing the odds

The shuttering of the Showboat, Revel Casino Hotel, Trump Plaza Hotel in Atlantic City and The Atlantic Club Casino Hotel left the area reeling.

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Robert Floccari: Turning the page

Robert Floccari has enhanced the foodservice offerings at York College of Pennsylvania by swapping out frozen and premade products.

More than 100 ESU students have been hit with gastrointestinal illness. The Pennsylvania Department of Health has been working with ESU Dining Services to investigate a gastrointestinal illness that has affected more than 100 students at ESU.

A new U.S. Food Law and Policy course will examine the environmental, health and safety regulations affecting the foodservice industry.

Sodexo, the foodservice provider at Liberty University, in Lynchburg, Va., has hired Chef Audrey Dobson-Maliangos as its new residential chef manager. Chef Dobson-Maliangos will oversee operations at Reber-Thomas Dining Hall, the campus’s largest dining facility.

Harvard University Dining Services is serving fish purchased from a local vendor for lunch on Fridays under a program called “Catch of the Day.”

For the first time, beer and wine were available to purchase at the club level of Razorback Stadium. Sodexo, which holds the stadium concessions, saw net sales of $234,918.

Everyone, it seems, wants to offer us tips on healthier eating. Even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has gotten into the act.

Oregon brewer, Falling Sky, hopes to open a pub and pizzeria in the remodeled Erb Memorial Union at the University of Oregon.

President Barack Obama criticized university administrators Friday for driving up the cost of college with high-priced extras such as gourmet cafeteria food.

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