By Hai Vo
Five summers ago, University of California Irvine Dining & Hospitality signed a multi-million dollar contract with Aramark, one of the largest national and international food service companies, to extend operations from pre-existing residential dining halls to all retail dining locations except for one coffee cart near the Physical Sciences. Aramark “provides a range [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Wait. What Happened Five Years Ago?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aramark, assessment, college dining, contracts, fair labor, institutional procurement, Sustainability on May 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Setting the Table – Hope for the Next Generation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food activism, Sustainable Food on May 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
By Halli Winstead
I have been employed as the Sustainability Intern with ARAMARK at The Evergreen State College for over two years now. There have been many days that I have gone home feeling 100% defeated, not necessarily because I wasn’t doing the best I could, but because the road to success was so long [...]
Majoring in farming, with a concentration in cheese and pastures…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agricultural education, farming, UVM, Vermont Food Summit on May 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
By Kate Turcotte
This blog post has caught me in the middle of final exams, papers, moving into a new apartment, and planting season, but to be honest, it couldn’t have come at a better time. It’s senior year of college, that lovely reflective time when you ask yourself “what HAVE I learned the past four [...]