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UMass tops 2016 Princeton Review Best Campus Food listing

The school replaces Bowdoin at the top of the list after placing second the last two years.

Mike Buzalka, Executive Features Editor

August 30, 2016

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The dining program at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst ranked No. 1 in the latest edition of the prestigious Princeton Review Best Campus Food list. UMass had placed second in the past two years, topped by Bowdoin College last year and Virginia Tech in 2014. Bowdoin fell to second in this year’s listing while Virginia Tech was fourth. Cornell University rose from No. 7 in 2015 to third this year.

Rounding out the Top 10 in the 2016 listing were St. Olaf College (5), College of the Atlantic (6), James Madison University (7), Saint Anselm College (8), Washington University in St. Louis (9) and Bryn Mawr College (10). The same 10 schools constituted the 2015 Princeton Review Best Campus Food top 10 as well, except in a different order.

UMass has been busy upgrading its residential dining centers over the past decade. Most recently it unveiled the completely renovated and transformed the Blue Wall retail dining complex in 2014, which won an FM Best Concept Award for Best Renovation last year.

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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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