‘News’ Category
Kitchen Cabinet Meeting Minutes September 2015
Kitchen Cabinet September 14, 2015 Jeri Miller, Margo Druschel, George Elliott , Paul Matzke, Chuck Niederriter, Patrick Neri, Kailey Holmes, Molly Yunkers, Jana Elliott, Kaitlyn Bicek, Jessica Braun, Mark Hanson , Steve Kjellgren, Lisa Heldke, Lindsay Rothschiller Why we are here: Introductions of Cabinet Members and our purpose and what we would like to see […]
Kitchen Cabinet Minutes: May, 2014
Kitchen Cabinet May 5, 2014 Steve Kjellgren, Lisa Heldke, Paul Matzke, Rebecca Hare, Jessica Burggraff, Margo Druschell , Meghan Krause, George Elliott, Molly Yunkers, Mark Hanson Meal Plan Accounts – A brief discussion on meal accounts and how they are used. Overall it seems as if meal plans do average out, some students run out […]
Kitchen Cabinet Minutes March 2014
Kitchen Cabinet Meeting Minutes March 10, 2014 Laura Shilling, Mark Hanson, Lisa Heldke, Jessica Braun, Jeff Stocco, Jim Dontje, Steve Kjellgren, Rebecca Hare, George Elliott, Jessica Burggraf, Paul Matzke, Meghan Krause MVAC Meeting – MVAC will be starting a food hub (connection between farmers and churches, business, etc.). This is a way to purchase local. […]
The 2010-11 College Sustainability Report Card Gives Gustavus Dining Service an “A”
Gustavus Dining Service and Recycling have received an “A” grade by the College Sustainability Report Card. From the Report Card: Dining services spends more than a third of its food budget on local products. Only fair trade coffee is served on campus; all milk is hormone and antibiotic free, and most seafood is purchased according […]
Gustavus’ Fresh Eggs to be 100% Certified Cage Free!
Photo by cgparkhouse http://www.flickr.com/photos/parkhouses/ Gustavus Dining Service has committed to prepare and serve only Cage Free eggs beginning in September 2010. The eggs will come from Minnesota and Wisconsin farms and are American Humane Certified. This means the farms follow strict guidelines in the care and well being of the laying hens. The hens are […]
Coffee & Environmentalism Internship Opportunity
Attention students: Tiny Footprint Coffee, our new coffee partner, has a great internship. If you are a student and are interested in coffee and environmentalism, we'd love to see you in this position.
Gustavus has a new Coffee Partner!
Photo by Joe Lencioni '05 We are excited to announce partnership with Tiny Footprint Coffee! Look for the delicious, locally roasted, sustainably grown, Earth First brew soon in the Gustavus Adolphus MarketPlace and at catered events! Tiny Footprint Coffee
GustieWare Update
The following message is an excerpt from a curious party Re: “How did the GustieWare Program go?”: Initially, the 2007-08 disposable use numbers were higher – don’t know why or who had bad data. Anyway, after we implemented the GustieWare program (2008-09), our disposable container use dropped 46% from 119,800 to 64,800. 55,000 fewer cardboard […]
Help Wanted
Did you know that the Kitchen Cabinet/Dining Service has a paid internship that can be undertaken for credit? Yep, that’s right. It’s called “Choices at the Table” and you can read all about it here. Note that for the next two semesters, we hope to continue a focus on nutrition choices that we’ve begun this […]