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Feeding Boston’s Homeless—One Swipe at a Time
On a recent Friday evening, 10 BU students were gathered on the steps of the recently closed City Convenience in Kenmore Square, surrounded by cardboard boxes and plastic bags containing peanut butter...
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Checking Out BU’s New Faculty Dining Room
University faculty and staff have a new spot on campus to grab a bite and enjoy a drink—in a very familiar, and elegant, setting. And there’s a big advantage to dining here if it’s to discuss work: how...
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Retiring Dining Services Director Reflects on Two-Plus Decades of Changes
2.5 million, 3 million, 677,000. Those are the number of meals served last year at BU dining halls, the number of patrons at University retail food locations, and the number of guests served at catered...
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Dining Services Rolls Out New Website
“Fresh, fun, friendly.” Those were the instructions Dining Services gave to the folks at the BU Marketing and Communications (MarCom) creative services team as they began a major overhaul of the BU...
View ArticleMeet Cecilia, Warren Towers Omelet Lady
You may not know her name, but chances are that if you’ve ever had an omelet at Warren Towers, you know her face. We’re talking about 25-year Dining Services employee Cecilia Lopez. She could rightly...
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Gluten-Free Dining Options
In the last several years, as awareness of the effects of gluten sensitivity has spread, more Americans are following a gluten-free diet than ever before. BU Dining Services offers a host of...
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BU Dining Services Introduces New Food Options
There’s good news for hungry Terriers. Dining Services has just revamped two dining spaces, giving students more options than ever. First up: Rhett’s West, an outpost of the popular GSU eatery,...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes at BU Dining Services
It takes a small army to prepare and serve the 3,000 breakfasts, 5,000 lunches, and 5,000 dinners that BU’s Dining Services manages in its three main dining halls each day. Add to that the 40,000...
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The Queen of the Castle
If you want to know how to set up the BU Castle dining room for a wedding, ask Rose Girouard. How to properly greet distinguished visitors at BU President Robert A. Brown’s door? Ask Rose. How to serve...
View ArticleBU Dining Services Reaches a Big Goal, Ahead of Schedule
Grass-fed beef? Check. Cage-free eggs? You got it. Certified Humane chicken? BU’s dining locations offer that, too. BU Dining Services recently released its 2015 Sustainability Report, which details...
View ArticleBU Increases Its Target for Sustainable Food Sources
When you beat your own expectations, what do you do? You aim higher. BU’s Dining Services has upped its goal for procuring food from sustainable food sources and is now aiming to get 25 percent of its...
View ArticleStudent Feedback Influences Dining Services Changes
You spoke and Dining Services listened. The Warren Towers dining hall has extended its dinner service to 10 p.m. from Monday to Thursday. The one-hour extension is in response to student feedback from...
View ArticleThe Art of Cracking a Lobster
BU’s annual Lobster Night—one of the most eagerly anticipated culinary events on campus each fall—is tonight from 5 to 9 p.m. Dining Services will be serving fresh, delicious Maine lobster in all three...
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10 Dining Hall Hacks
It’s still early in the semester, and yes, the food served in BU dining halls really does taste good, but there may come a time when it starts to taste a bit déjà vu. To help keep your taste buds...
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Lunch, Anyone? Basho Express
When Dining Services needed to choose a vendor to replace the Subway that had been in Warren Towers, it did extensive research, including student surveys, traffic studies, and focus groups. The result:...
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Special Deliveries
The George Sherman Union Food Court feeds 8,000 people each day, serving up an enormous variety of food, from home-style turkey dinners to grilled eggplant naan to skinny soy lattes. Putting it all...
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A New Food Truck Comes to BU
When BU Today’s editors asked us to do a story on Fàn Boy, the new Dining Services Asian-fusion food truck, video producer Alan Wong and I didn’t want to do the standard “new restaurant comes to Comm...
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Dining Services to Add Authentic Asian Dishes
Coming soon to a dining hall near you: a mélange of new, authentically prepared Asian dishes. As part of an effort to promote healthy and diverse cooking on campus, chefs from the renowned Culinary...
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Got (Local) Fish?
Dining in New England doesn’t get more local than eating fish served by the fisherman. And that’s going to be possible tonight at Marciano Commons, Warren Towers, and West Campus from 5 to 8 p.m. as...
View ArticleMore Chinese Food, More Authentically Prepared
Trying to stem an outsized flow of Chinese students to off-campus housing, the University is adding 15 Chinese dishes to its monthly residential dining menus. More than that, cooks are altering food...
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