Archive for 2009Page 3
The Food!
A great look at the what, why, where, and how!! http://gustavus.edu/video/admission/campuslife/food.php
The Princeton Review Top 20 List
Once again Gustavus has been ranked nationally in the ‘Best On-Campus Food’ category. This year’s placement is #8 and marks the second consecutive top 10 finish! Particularly gratifying is the fact that the Princeton rankings arise from student supplied data – the very best and most honest source of critical feedback. Thank you Gusties – […]
The Future of Food
The Future Of Food offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.
Food: The Movie
A new movie, “Food, Inc.,” promises to address a whole grocery-list of issues raised by our contemporary industrial food system–nutrition, the environment, farm worker rights, and all points in between. You can see a trailer for the movie (cleverly advertised using a Holstein cow with a bar code on its flank) here. It looks interesting […]
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 […]
Meeting Minutes – April 21, 2009
Present: Kimberly Braun, Jim Dontje, Stacey Gerken, Lisa Heldke, Steve Kjellgren, Joe Lencioni, Sujay Rao, Jordan Walker, Rebecca Welp Reports Dining Service Director Steve reported that Bruce Johnson’s market research classes have been conducting two different nutrition surveys with students. One survey focuses on what students know; the other on what students do. It will […]
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 […]
Gustieware: it’s famous!
An article in College Planning and Management discusses the Gustieware program as an example of “environmentally conscious changes on campus.” Now, if only we could implant those homing devices in the things….
Consider the Bag!!
A short movie from our friends at Free Range Studios.
GustieWare Facts
As we approach the end of the academic year, I thought it might be good to get some facts up about GustieWare–our reusable take out containers. Gustavus serves about 5,500 meals per day in our MarketPlace with roughly 25% of them in the form of take out. Disposable take out box (corrugated cardboard) consumption at […]