- Community Pool
Ken Miller never left his alma mater. In fact, the principal partner and majority owner of Millennium Restaurant Group, Kalamazoo, Mich., depends on the city's Western Michigan University (WMU), from which he graduated in 1970, as a resource for entertainment and labor. The school's College of Fine Arts contracts to ......
- Future Stakes
When visiting schools, prospective students evaluate more than faculty and curriculum. They check out the lifestyle amenities. Under such scrutiny, colleges have set off a boom in foodservice-facility remodeling and construction aimed at creating exciting venues. "What draws students are off-campus restaurants," says David Porter, a Crofton, Md.-based consultant. To ......
- Contract with the future
College students are earning class credit while exploring the merits of managed foodservice. Thanks to funding from Louisville, Ky.-based Society for Foodservice Management (SFM), a pilot program designed to expose students to career opportunities in on-site foodservice is being established on four campuses. Thirteen students from Widener University in Chester, ......
- East, West and Northwestern
Students returning to Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., this fall found University Dining Services rebranded as "nuCuisine," a unified campus-wide foodservice program boasting expanded menus and services. Research among students, faculty and staff revealed negative connotations for the dining services department's previous formal name and found strong interest in international ......
- The new business of school foodservice
By all measures, Mary Kate Harrison is part of the big league. "I run an $85 million business," she says. In many ways that puts Harrison on equal footing with similarly sized chains such as Shula's Steak House and La Salsa Fresh Mexican Grill and way ahead of those with ......
- Fox, Margaret S. & Bear, John B. Morning food;
breakfasts, brunches & more for savoring the best part of the
day.
FOX, Margaret S. & BEAR, John B. Morning food; breakfasts, brunches & more for savoring the best part of the day. Ten Speed Press. 202p. illus. index. c1990. c2006. 1-58008-782-5. $19.95. JSA * Who says that breakfast has to be staid, traditional and the same every day? According to ......
- Making the Grade
Flamenco dancers and Spanish guitarists have a place in the dining halls of Boston's Northeastern University. The school's annual Educate Your Palate night, a foreign cuisine and culture showcase, is one example of how colleges and universities are piquing the interest of students and competing not only with other foodservice ......