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Commencement brings Notre Dame dining's biggest challenge

 May 17, 2012

Dining services works extra hard to make celebrations a success.

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Face Time

May 17, 2012

We have created a service standard that says each full-time employee needs to have customer service contact on a personal level. For example, the baker spends time during lunch service plating desserts and handing them to the customers. This way all staff

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Wash U implements new composting initiatives

May 16, 2012

Compost is purchased and used in campus landscaping.

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Food Trucks Take to the Streets

By Lindsey Ramsey and Paul King on May 16, 2012

Miami University and the University of California, Riverside, launch mobile feeding units.

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Menu Development Case Study: Desserts at Iowa State University

By Lindsey Ramsey on May 16, 2012

Iowa State University, in Ames, is not New York City or Los Angeles, but that doesn’t mean it can’t produce some on-trend desserts for its 29,800 students. The secret, according to Ed Astarita, pastry chef, is to take traditional top sellers a

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Grasshopper causes Brown to re-evaluate restaurant partnership

May 16, 2012

Service discontinued for the semester.

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Katie Davis

May 16, 2012

Katie Davis, catering director for Aramark at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., has increased the yearly revenue of the catering department by more than 17% over the previous year thanks to her constant focus on operational excellenc

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Bowling Green forgoes summer meal plan option

May 16, 2012

Construction of new facility led to decision.

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Beyond Chicken Caesar

By Pamela Parseghian on May 14, 2012

With summer just around the corner, foodservice operators are updating menus by adding cold or lighter main courses in the form of entrée salads to their warm-weather menus.

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Sustainability in Practice: Texas A&M Research Turns Food Scraps to Fuel

By Lindsey Ramsey on May 09, 2012

David Riddle, executive director for University Dining at Texas A&M University, in College Station, was in the right place at the right time when he was working at his prior job at the university’s office of technology commercialization. It was

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