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Top 12 college and university food service stories of 2023

Here are a dozen stories FM rain over the past year highlighting trends and innovations in the higher education dining market.

Mike Buzalka, Executive Features Editor

November 21, 2023

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College/university dining fully got its legs back in the past year after pandemic disruptions mostly dissipated. That doesn't mean challenges didn't intrude, especially labor shortages and decisions on how best to utilize the expanding array of high-tech solutions being rolled out by vendors.

Meanwhile, colleges were faced with the demographic trend of a declining college-age population that threatens to reduce the pool of available students. For a growing number, this means doing a better job of offering a vibrant and attractive campus life, something dining programs have a major part in.

The result was a slew of innovations and creative approaches to menus, operations and facilities. Here are a dozen FM stories from the past year highlighting some of those developments...

 

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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