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C&U On Demand: Sodexo’s Kate Cole talks about the campus-wide meal delivery program at Marist College

Marist College Dining has been operating one of the most comprehensive campus meal delivery programs in the country. Here’s Sodexo’s Kate Cole to talk about what it is and how it works.

Mike Buzalka, Executive Features Editor

May 12, 2021

FM On Demand are video interviews with onsite dining professionals who talk about creative and interesting initiatives they have developed or undertaken.

Since the start of the 2020-2021 academic year, the Sodexo-operated dining program Marist College in New York has been offering a meal delivery program across campus that is free to students and makes hundreds of deliveries each day out of multiple campus dining outlets. In this FM On Demand video interview, Kate Cole, a field marketing specialist for the campus dining program, spoke to FM Executive Features Editor Mike Buzalka about the delivery program, including how it works, what and when it is offered and what other campus dining programs looking to institute a similar service need to consider before launching one.

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Mike Buzalka

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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