Aladdin Campus Dining offers cooking demos using pantry ingredients
Food Management
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Aladdin Campus Dining initiative at Middle Georgia State University addresses food insecurity trend on college campuses.
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Back to School: Quality, convenience, tech and sustainability trends drive campus dining
Food Management
AUGUST 4, 2023
Back to “normal” operation following several years of pandemic disruptions also means accommodating the trends COVID accelerated in the higher ed dining market.
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Aladdin brings New Orleans inspired restaurant brands to community college
Food Management
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
PJ’s Coffee and WOW American Eats added to Pearl River Community College dining mix by Aladdin Campus Dining
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Virginia Tech: Meeting the needs of today's evolving students
Food Management
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
The university has ushered in a variety of new changes over the past year to make sure it stays up to date on what students want from campus dining.
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5 things: Importance of healthy food options expected to drive hospital foodservice market growth
Food Management
AUGUST 1, 2023
This and Washington University adding five local minority/women-owned restaurants to its campus dining mix are some of the stories you may have missed recently.
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Aladdin Campus Dining launches a new wellness-focused café at San Juan College, with specials for National Nutrition Month
Food Management
MARCH 20, 2025
At the beginning of the spring semester, the dining team at San Juan College debuted Caf Belay, which is focused on nutritionally balanced options and is a new neighbor to a campus gym.
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University of Nevada, Reno transforms campus dining experience for 2023-24
Food Management
AUGUST 31, 2023
Menu refreshes, globally-inspired meal concepts and expanded early-bird and late-night hours are some of the enhancements to the program.
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Celebrating Five Years of Redefining Campus Dining
FoodService Director
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
By introducing our smart locker technology to schools nationwide, Apex aimed to make the food order pickup process faster, more convenient, and far less chaotic for students, campus dining staff, and administrators. One of the first institutions to deploy Apex smart pickup locker solutions on campus. “It
The Evolution of Campus Dining: Meeting the Demand for Flavor Innovation & Customization
Fast Casual
MARCH 26, 2025
The demand for trending flavors, customizable drinks, and rotating seasonal menus has become a driving force in campus food service. This report explores the growing trend of flavor innovation and customization on college campuses, backed by data and industry insights.
Destination Dining helps Fordham University navigate dining hall closure
Food Management
NOVEMBER 5, 2023
Multiple new locations across campus are filling the campus dining gap at Fordham University.
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FM On Demand with Tara Fitzpatrick: U of Nevada, Reno’s Chef Jon Buchholtz doesn’t know blackjack, but he does know campus dining
Food Management
OCTOBER 10, 2023
He's not a gambler, despite living in Reno, and he doesn’t roll the dice on campus foodservice, either, preferring well-researched, feedback-based changes and carefully implemented trends and marketing.
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FM On Demand with Tara Fitzpatrick: U of Nevada, Reno’s Chef Jon Buccholtz doesn’t know blackjack, but he does know campus dining
Food Management
OCTOBER 10, 2023
He's not a gambler, despite living in Reno, and he doesn’t roll the dice on campus foodservice, either, preferring well-researched, feedback-based changes and carefully implemented trends and marketing.
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Trill Burgers pop-up at the University of Houston successfully brings more guests to the dining center
Food Management
OCTOBER 21, 2024
The campus dining team saw a 61% increase in guests visiting the dining center compared to the previous week.
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5 things: Free summer meal counts plunged 45% last year, study finds
Food Management
JULY 28, 2023
This and a look at college student attitudes toward their campus dining programs are some of the stories you may have missed recently.
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The 2025 Allergy Award Nominations Are Open!
MenuTrinfo
JANUARY 6, 2025
This year, the awards will be announced and presented March 11-12, 2025, at the 2025 Food Allergy Symposium for Industry (FASI) in Raleigh, N.C. Stay close and watch your email for updates and announcements.
Best Concepts: Aramark’s Dinopoly helps University of Alabama students get to know their dining options
Food Management
JULY 26, 2023
Creative game that incents first-year students to visit all campus dining sites for prizes has been named winner of the 2023 FM Best Concept Award in the Best Marketing Concept category.
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The New Wave of Campus Dining: A Student-Centric Approach
LTI, Inc.
MARCH 28, 2023
LTI sits down at the table with University of Massachusetts Amherst Dining Service’s Garett DiStefano and Alexander Ong At universities across the country, college students are progressively savvier and selective when it comes to the campus dining experience. We no longer need to load a truck and run it across campus.
The Eatery at Pitt Eats boasts 11 new campus dining concepts
FoodService Director
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
University of Pittsburgh and Chartwells Higher Ed master-minded the multi-million-dollar transformation to reflect the city’s diversity of cuisines and cultures.
Students may be campus dining's best ambassadors in sustainability
FoodService Director
MAY 28, 2024
As college and university dining programs grapple with the question of how to be more sustainable, their own diners may help them get the message across.
The Importance of Making Meals Affordable for Students
Culinary Digital
MARCH 14, 2025
Improve options with school menu software A major expense for students is spending on takeout or outside food; on average, students spend $410 per month on non-campus dining options, excluding groceries (4). School menu software can help rectify this issue by reducing reliance on outside food sources.
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Campus Dining Challenges? Here’s How Schools Solved Them With Food Lockers
FoodService Director
MARCH 20, 2024
College and university dining leaders use smart food locker solutions in a variety of unexpected ways, depending on the unique challenges they face. At first glance, it might seem that the purpose of food lockers is to provide fast, secure order pickup for busy students and guests. But that’s just the beginning.
The Evolution of Campus Dining: Meeting the Demand for Flavor Innovation & Customization
Fast Casual
MARCH 26, 2025
The demand for trending flavors, customizable drinks, and rotating seasonal menus has become a driving force in campus food service. This report explores the growing trend of flavor innovation and customization on college campuses, backed by data and industry insights.
Chartwells Higher Ed launches national student dining advisory board
FoodService Director
OCTOBER 11, 2023
IGNITE will allow students throughout the country to connect virtually and share their feedback about their campus dining programs.
Trill Burgers pop-up at the University of Houston successfully brings more guests to the dining center
FoodService Director
OCTOBER 21, 2024
The campus dining team saw a 61% increase in guests visiting the dining center compared to the previous week.
Unused retail space transforms into vibrant Mezze Table at Georgia Gwinnett College
FoodService Director
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Aladdin Campus Dining introduces new Greek/Mediterranean concept where gyros, bowls and more have helped the new school year start off super fresh and powered by tahini.
Food Recovery Network Featured at Montclair State University
Food Recovery Network
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Each week, student volunteers collect excess food from campus dining facilities, transforming it into ready-to-go microwavable meals, supporting students facing food insecurity. The Food Recovery Network, established in 2017, was created to address two important challenges on campus: food insecurity and food waste.
December 2023 – Total Food Service Digital Issue
Total Food Service
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Click here for the Total Food Service archive. Advertisements For your free monthly subscription to our print edition, sign-up here.
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The Evolution of Campus Dining: Meeting the Demand for Flavor Innovation & Customization
Fast Casual
OCTOBER 17, 2024
The demand for trending flavors, customizable drinks, and rotating seasonal menus has become a driving force in campus food service. This report explores the growing trend of flavor innovation and customization on college campuses, backed by data and industry insights.
Operators, Manufacturers To Explore AI at MUFES
Foodservice Equipment Reports
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Hear from two foodservice operators—Glenn Loughridge, director of campus dining and concessions at Auburn University, and Nadine Rodriguez, director of supply chain at Noodles & Co.—about The panel discussion, “How Artificial Intelligence Impacts Foodservice.
Bon Appétit’s Katy Maher Named Planet Promise Changemaker
Bon Appetit Management Company
JANUARY 19, 2024
Her innovative initiatives continue to transform the campus dining experience and have set a remarkable standard for sustainable practices, making her a deserving nominee for this recognition.” – Dr. Frank E. Ross, Vice President, Student Affairs Butler University.
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West Chester University Earns Certified Free From Certification
MenuTrinfo
MARCH 18, 2024
.” – Nora Abraham, Campus Dietitian MenuTrinfo® precisely offers the certification WCU needed to, as Abraham put it, “take [their] program to the next level.” The certification has had an overall positive effect at the campus’ dining halls. “So So far, the feedback has been great!” Abraham claimed.
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Kitchen System Provides Tools for Managing Risks Related to Food Safety
JAMIX
JANUARY 11, 2022
As featured in the Fall/Winter 2021 issue of Campus Dining Today. Copyright 2021 NACUFS®️. Published with permission Anna SkyttäMarketing DirectorJAMIX Inc. Food safety is not only about hygiene or ingredients that comply with regulations; it is also about nutritional quality of food and allergens.
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Kitchen System Provides Tools for Managing Risks Related to Food Safety
JAMIX
JANUARY 11, 2022
As featured in the Fall/Winter 2021 issue of Campus Dining Today. Copyright 2021 NACUFS®️. Published with permission Anna SkyttäMarketing DirectorJAMIX Inc. Food safety is not only about hygiene or ingredients that comply with regulations; it is also about nutritional quality of food and allergens.
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172: Lobbying for Systemic Change in Food Service
Eating at a Meeting
JANUARY 9, 2023
Listen as Tracy and Elise chat about what she's working on related to on-campus dining, when food is an inclusive issue, how she wants to encourage conversations about food allergies, and what it takes her to be safe. food allergies and celiac disease), in turn creating a more inclusive world.
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Student Perspectives: How Smart Food Lockers Save Time And Reduce Stress
FoodService Director
MAY 1, 2024
That’s one reason so many campus dining programs now offer mobile ordering. Collegiate foodservice directors are often looking for ways to help busy students achieve more balance in their lives and make healthy food choices.
A Note From Fedele Bauccio: Sustainability is Everyone’s Job
Bon Appetit Management Company
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
I wanted to disrupt the soggy steam table paradigm in corporate and campus dining and serve authentic, restaurant-quality food cooked by experienced chefs. When I started this company in 1987, I knew I wanted it to be different.
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How Tech Options Give Students A New Kind Of “Comfort Food”
FoodService Director
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Many students expect their campus dining services to offer the same digital ordering options they use at home, to accommodate their busy schedules. In recent years, many C&U dining programs implemented mobile ordering, and students quickly adopted it.
Student Leaders Step Up to Recover from the Big Game
Food Recovery Network
MARCH 8, 2023
” — Fran Alvarado, NAU Campus Dining, Sodexo On a normal school day, the students at NAU work with their faculty advisor, the campus Sustainability Director for Sodexo Dining, to donate perfectly good food that was prepared and never served from the Hot Spot, an all-you-care-to-eat resident dining hall on campus.
Recap of Food Recovery Network's March Roundtable Talk
Food Recovery Network
APRIL 9, 2024
We will not lose focus on the point that every meal we recover goes to a person in need, in your community, on a specific day.
Meet the Alt Protein Project’s latest cohort
GFI
AUGUST 9, 2024
The UMass Amherst Alt Protein Project The University of Massachusetts, Amherst is a public land grant research university, home to numerous alternative protein opportunities, from sustainable campus dining programs to plant-based meat marbling research.
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From FRN Student Volunteer to FRN Staff Member: Recovering food city to city
Food Recovery Network
DECEMBER 16, 2022
Actually being on the ground transporting food for donation brought me right back to 2018 when I was picking up surplus food from my campus dining hall to bring to our chapter’s hunger-fighting partner agency.
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Fair Food Movement + What You Can Do by Liz Y.
Chartwell Student Success
MARCH 26, 2019
Since my return to campus, I have taken the initiative to educate the University of Arkansas community, and take pride in the fact that our campus dining (Chartwells) is supporting social responsibility. My visit to the CIW Headquarters has sparked something inside of me.
The Power of Warm Hospitality
Fresh Ideas
AUGUST 31, 2022
The same people visit our dining halls every day, and we want them to feel comfortable and cared for. In our college campus dining halls, for example, our friendly and attentive staff have the time to engage in conversations and often know students by name.
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Why Making Custom Meals Matters
American Dining Creations
MAY 6, 2022
Students have a voice in designing the school’s dining program and can provide input based on their needs and wants. Dining website: Our advanced campus dining website highlights fun activities and events being held on campus, including the available dining options at these events.
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