Entries tagged with ‘environment’
Can’t have any Pudding if you Don’t eat your Meat???
But then again…..Where Does Your Meat Come From? That is exactly the question posed by Sophomore Student Matthew Glaser recently – Here is the question: Dear Mr. Kjellgren, My name is Matthew Glaser and I’m a sophomore at Gustavus. I was just wondering where the meat in the caf comes from? Is it local from […]
KC Meeting Minutes 5-14-2012
Kitchen Cabinet May 14, 2012 Present: Steve Bennett, Lisa Heldke, Steve Kjellgren, Mark Hanson , Judy Douglas, Bob Douglas, Saskia, Rebecca (representing The Greens), Jeff Stocco, Joe Lenconi, George Elliott End of the Year Assessment Members of KC broke into small groups and discussed: Issues KC addressed for the year, the processes we used to […]
Beverage Provider Request for Proposals
Following 14 months of soliciting community input into content for the Request for Proposals, the RFP was sent out to Pepsi and Coke in late January 2012 and has been responded to by both companies. Director of Dining Service, Steve Kjellgren and Vice President – Finance, Ken Westphal are grateful for the valuable content that […]
Kitchen Cabinet Meeting Minutes December 12, 2011
Kitchen Cabinet December 12, 2011 Present: Lisa Hedlke, Adam Lugsch-Tehle, Dillion Hall, Judy Douglas, Bob Douglas, Steve Kjellgren, Jeff Stocco, Josh Sande, Steve Bennett, Christine Tenhoff, Jim Dontje, George Elliott Briefly discussed International students being here over break and what their options are for obtaining food. Dining Service is available to assist our International students […]
Gustavus Food Partner Sysco – Sustainable Seafood
Congratulations to Sysco for taking steps to make our seafood offerings sustainable and responsible – as well as nutritious and tasty!! Sept. 19, 2011 Sysco Corporation announced earlier today that it has pledged to assess its current seafood supply and to develop ways to improve the sustainability of its seafood-buying practices and standards by 2015, […]
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 […]