December 3, 2008

UC Santa Cruz Dining, 2008 named Employer of the Year for longtime alliance with HOPE!

UC Santa Cruz Dining was recently honored as Employer of the Year for being a longtime employer of people with developmental disabilities

November 20, 2008 UC Santa Cruz Dining, 2008 winner of the 2008 Sustainability Award!

UC Santa Cruz Dining won a $5,000 grant for its comprehensive approach to food service :)

November 19, 2008

Your vote counted!

UC Santa Cruz wins fifth place for most vegetarian friendly college in peta2's 2008 contest.

September 25, 2008

Dining Removes Trays: The Next Evolution in Green Dining

To reduce food waste, and to save water and energy dining has gone trayless.

September 25, 2008

KGO TV video, 2008 UCSC implements tray-less cafeterias

A new trend is slowly taking hold at college campuses nationwide, tray-less cafeterias.

September 9, 2008

UC Santa Cruz Dining featured in PLENTY magazine

UC Santa Cruz Dining wins first place for Greenest Cafeterias in PLENTY magazine's Green Campuses 3.0 report

August 18, 2008

Slug Compost

Dining's compost program with the County of Santa Cruz is diverting TONS

June 1, 2008

Dining Cooks up First Place Dish!

UC Santa Cruz Dining recently competed in a national cooking competition to highlight the Best Vegan Recipe and brought home 1st place honors.

March 17, 2008

Cultural Center at Merrill

During a recent focus group discussion many creative ideas were discussed concerning options at this new dining

March 7, 2008

UC Santa Cruz Dining and Catering Team make a gallant effort in 26th Annual Clam Chowder Cookoff...

Despite, or possibly because of the gray skies and impending storm, hundreds walked the Boardwalk and sampled homemade clam chowder

March 5, 2008

Academic Appetite

Metro Santa Cruz newspaper writes about UCSC's Jamie Smith, Terra Fresca Chef de Cuisine

February 1, 2008

Hundreds attend Seventh Annual Campus Earth Summit

In an experiment last week, UCSC Dining Services tried “tray-less Tuesday" at Porter Dining Hall, an effort to reduce food waste and energy use.

January 16, 2008

Banana Joe's Quick Mart is now open for business!

After a brief closing last quarter to restructure the menu and incorporate a "quick mart" concept, Banana Joe's Quick Mart

January 11, 2008

Campus Chefs Attend 2nd Annual Pacific Chef Net Conference

Hosted once again by Stanford University, the theme for this year’s culinary training workshop was "Cook Global Eat Local". UCSC chefs Dennis Wake

January 7, 2008

Second Harvest 2007

The dining team reached out to the community and participated in the Adopt-A-Family Program.