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Chartwells opens Chick-fil-A franchise on FAU campus

The restaurant is an express version of Chick-fil-A, with a smaller menu than regular Chick-fil-A locations.

Operations

Optional add-ons make up 76% of GVSU meal plans sold in 2014

According to the campus dining website, 76 percent of meal plans sold in 2014 were from students who were not required to have a meal plan but chose to add one on after their freshmen year.

Melissa Martinez has made a difference at Michigan State University by setting up a new menu line and winning culinary competitions.

Nancy Keller nee Levandowski, Iowa State University’s NACUFS-award-winning former foodservice director and a 2011 FoodService Director FSD of the Month, has moved to Gonzaga University as resident district manager, employed by Sodexo.

Sterling College, already known for growing 20% of its own food on campus, has been confirmed as the top college in the U.S. that eats food that is local, sustainable, humane, and fair-trade.

The program will expand from Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties to also include counties across the state, where the Medical University of South Carolina's Boeing Center for Children's Wellness has worked to help schools implement their wellness policies.

Restaurateurs who own eateries on busy Cumberland Avenue in Knoxville, Tenn., adjacent to the University of Tennessee campus, are upset over two new restaurants that opened this past fall on campus property.

Many students are curious about how what they eat gets from the farm to the fork - and want to explore the environmental, economic, historical, cultural, social justice and public health issues along that path.

I bristle at the clichés reporters use, such as “mystery meat,” or when they make generalizations about food quality based on hearsay or on the writer’s own—often one-time—bad experience.

Faculty members of the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences have looked into their crystal ball and come up with food trends they see for 2015.

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