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Meet the 2022 College Power Players

Here are 41 of the country’s largest college dining programs and how they are operating this spring.

Mike Buzalka, Executive Features Editor

May 10, 2022

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Unlike past years, the 2022 edition of FM’s College Power Players includes more than 25 entries—41 to be exact. The reason is that we felt that the current environment in which schools are still in an adjustment period regarding campus living and activities is impacting dining participation patterns, meal plan sales and operating hours.

In this edition of FM’s annual College Power Players feature, we provide a glimpse at where the listed programs stand in terms of resuming traditional operation, what initiatives in terms of new venues or offerings they recently added and where they currently are in emerging areas like mobile ordering options and meal delivery services.

The schools are ordered by the number of students living on campus the spring term as a matter of convenience and is not meant as any sort of “ranking”.

Here are the schools listed with links to their respective profile page in the following gallery…

Rutgers University

University of California Irvine

The Ohio State University

Purdue University

University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Michigan State University

Stanford University

UCLA

PennState

University of California San Diego

Indiana University

Boston University

University of Michigan

Texas A&M University

University of Connecticut

Northern Arizona University

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Washington-Seattle

Virginia Tech

Stony Brook, SUNY

North Carolina State University

University of Alabama

University of Wisconsin-Madison

University of Georgia

Miami University

Harvard University

Liberty University

University of Colorado-Boulder

Texas Tech

Binghamton University, SUNY

University of South Carolina

Syracuse University

Boston College

University of Texas-Austin

Cornell University

University of Arizona

University at Buffalo

University of California Santa Barbara

University of Oklahoma

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Oklahoma State University

About the Author

Mike Buzalka

Executive Features Editor, Food Management

Mike Buzalka is executive features editor for Food Management and contributing editor to Restaurant Hospitality, Supermarket News and Nation’s Restaurant News. On Food Management, Mike has lead responsibility for compiling the annual Top 50 Contract Management Companies as well as the K-12, College, Hospital and Senior Dining Power Players listings. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English Literature from John Carroll University. Before joining Food Management in 1998, he served as for eight years as assistant editor and then editor of Foodservice Distributor magazine. Mike’s personal interests range from local sports such as the Cleveland Indians and Browns to classic and modern literature, history and politics.

Mike Buzalka’s areas of expertise include operations, innovation and technology topics in onsite foodservice industry markets like K-12 Schools, Higher Education, Healthcare and Business & Industry.

Mike Buzalka’s experience:

Executive Features Editor, Food Management magazine (2010-present)

Contributing Editor, Restaurant Hospitality, Supermarket News and Nation’s Restaurant News (2016-present)

Associate Editor, Food Management magazine (1998-2010)

Editor, Foodservice Distributor magazine (1997-1998)

Assistant Editor, Foodservice Distributor magazine (1989-1997)

 

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