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The 16 winningest college menu items of 2020

Instead of our annual College Menu Playoff bracket-style competition, we’re celebrating the amazing culinary feats these college dining teams accomplish all year long.

Tara Fitzpatrick, Senior Editor

March 17, 2020

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Plans change! It’s safe to say just about everyone is discovering that to be true in light of the novel coronavirus pandemic. With so many college campuses shut down right now, like just about everyone else, Food Management has had to adjust our plans.

One of FM’s favorite times of the year is our bracket-style competition, College Menu Playoff. This year, everything changed abruptly as we recruited our “players,” the dining service teams at great basketball schools. When basketball tournaments and college classes were canceled, we knew for sure we’d have to pivot our plan for College Menu Playoff this year.

College dining teams are some of the hardest-working in the restaurant industry, and some of the hardest-hit right now, so we’ve turned our menu item competition into a celebration of the amazing culinary feats these college dining pros accomplish all year long. So please click through and enjoy these menu items and we hope all the fun, inventive and wow-worthy menu items will be a welcome distraction during these trying times!

(If you’re wondering how we picked the “players,” these were the highest ranked basketball teams in the NCAA and would have been part of the tournament.)

 

Contact Tara at [email protected]

Follow her on Twitter @Tara_Fitzie

Related:Texas A&M wins 2016 Menu Madness

About the Author

Tara Fitzpatrick

Senior Editor, Informa Restaurant & Food Group

Tara Fitzpatrick is Food Management’s senior editor and a contributor to Restaurant Hospitality and Nation’s Restaurant News, creating editorial content for digital, print and events. Tara holds a bachelor of science degree from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Kent State University. Before joining Food Management in 2008, Tara was associate editor at National Association of College Stores in Oberlin, Ohio. Prior to that, Tara worked as a newspaper reporter in her hometown of Lorain, Ohio, where she lives now. Tara is a fan of food history, legends, lore, ghost stories, urban farming and old cookbooks. 

Tara Fitzpatrick’s areas of expertise include the onsite foodservice industry (K-12 schools, colleges and universities, healthcare and B&I), menu trends, sustainability in foodservice, senior dining, farm-to-table and innovation.

Tara Fitzpatrick is a frequent webinar and podcast host and has served on the board of directors for IFEC (International Food Editors Consortium).

Tara Fitzpatrick’s experience:

Senior Editor, Food Management (Feb 2008-present)

Associate Editor, National Association of College Stores (2005-2008)

Reporter, The Morning Journal (2002-2005)

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