Colleges & Universities

Operations

Sodexo closes campus c-store

The foodservice vendor closed the Mountaintop Market convenience store because of its inconvenient location, noting 70 percent of its customers were staff, not students.

Operations

Providing healthy meals to students is top priority for university chef

Aida Samaniego, executive chef for Sodexo at New Mexico State University, offers sugar-free gelatin desserts and fresh fruits as a part of her efforts to provide healthy meals and hinder quick weight gain.

1887 Bistro will serve as an option for lunch and late-evening social gatherings, featuring smoked brisket sandwiches, shareable appetizers and flatbreads.

Purdue University students can now use their dining dollars and Boiler Express funds at The Daily Bite, the campus’ new food truck.

Virginia Tech and Washington University in St. Louis top Niche’s list of colleges with the best campus food.

Between 2013 and 2014, campuses saw a 60 percent increase in regional and local food initiatives.

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Hundreds of people gathered Sunday for the second annual University of Minnesota Duluth Food and Farm Festival to celebrate a harvest that supplies the university with thousands of pounds of food.

Columbia University’s Emergency Meal Fund allows food insecure students to receive up to six meal vouchers per semester from fellow students who have donated meals. Meanwhile, the student-developed Swipes app aims to match students who need dining hall meals with students who have extra.

While the Avian Flu has yet to impact the state’s public universities, Quinnipiac University and Albertus Magnus College have cut down—and are even working on eliminating—the use of eggs at breakfast.

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