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$19 million renovation of UMass dining hall complete

The UMass Building Authority said it has completed a $19 million renovation of Lincoln Campus Center, a dining hall at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Lunch debate as Bay Area schools go meatless on Mondays

Mondays have become meat free in hundreds of school cafeterias across the Bay Area, a move praised by animal rights activists and environmentalists and condemned by the livestock industry for pushing politics into the lunch line.

A slew of volunteers man the Generals' Store at Wade Hampton High School, selling snacks to hungry high school students during breakfast and lunch hours.

The facility will house a 1,000-seat dining hall, several restaurants and Food Connection, a new partnership funded by Aramark to study local food systems.

It's no secret that there is a big national effort to combat childhood obesity by providing healthy food choices in public schools.

A northeast Ohio school district that discontinued a popular cafeteria cookie under new federal nutritional guidelines says it has heard from plenty of people commenting on the decision or wanting to place special orders for the treat, some from out of state.

Zavalla students are throwing away more food than they're eating and leaving the cafeteria hungry.

Tufts Dining Services will implement a number of updates to its dining operations at Tufts this year in response to feedback from faculty, staff and students.

The University recently began using Tapingo this semester, an app that allows students to order and pay for food ahead of time, and then pick it up at campus dining locations.

Sodexo, a food-service company with numerous Vermont accounts, announced Thursday afternoon a program to increase local foods in institutional settings.

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