Acclaimed Chicago chef Rick Bayless is opening a Tortas Frontera location at the recently renovated ARCH Café at University of Pennsylvania. The chain’s first establishment on a college campus will be operated in partnership with Bon Appétit Management Company, Penn’s food service provider since 2009.
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BAMCO Asks Chefs, Guests to Shake Their Salty Habits
The consumer advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has made sodium reduction a key focus. In partnership with CSPI, the food service provider Bon Appétit Management Company is extending its pioneering work in healthy cooking and guest education with a three-pronged sodium-reduction campaign at the 500-plus cafés it operates for corporations, universities, and museums in 32 states.
BAMCO Hosts Ninth Installment of Pioneering Eat Local Challenge
Today, Bon Appétit Management Company’s 500-plus cafés are showcasing its years-long commitment to local food, by preparing regionally authentic meals made entirely from ingredients harvested within 150 miles of each kitchen. And at many locations, guests will get to mingle with the farmers, ranchers, and food artisans whose food helped make each café’s 100% local meal a reality.
BAMCO’s 6th Low Carbon Diet Day Highlights Endangered Foods
On Earth Day 2013 (Monday, April 22), Bon Appétit Management Company will turn its 500-plus cafés into fun culinary classrooms for the latest climate-change information. The first food service company to address how food choices can affect our shifting atmosphere, Bon Appétit has celebrated its Low Carbon Diet Day in conjunction with Earth Day since 2008. This year, in a hot new twist, corporate guests and students all across the country — ranging from eBay in San Jose, CA, to Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and Gallaudet University in Washington, DC — will get a real taste of how climate change is already endangering certain beloved food crops.
Fighting Food Waste and Hunger with Food Recovery Network
Keeping food out of landfills has long been a critical part of Bon Appétit Management Company’s mission of food service for a sustainable future. Bon Appétit is consequently proud to announce its new partnership with the Food Recovery Network (FRN), a student-operated nonprofit working on college campuses to curb food waste and end hunger. Bon Appétit and FRN will join forces in recovering surplus food that would otherwise be wasted from campus dining halls and delivering it to local shelters to combat hunger in the surrounding community.
BAMCO Foundation and KGI Launch Campus Farmers Community
A collaboration between the Bon Appétit Management Company Foundation and Kitchen Gardeners International (KGI), the Campus Farmers site (www.kgi.org/campusfarmers) offers a wealth of information and links to resources about starting an on-campus farm, managing farm finances, and staying in business.
Local-Food Pioneer Bon Appétit Management Company Makes Fish the New Frontier
The time is ripe for local fish. Eating locally and seasonally is a significant national trend, and many Americans now know the names of farms that grow their food. Still, even as we’re urged to eat more fish for its health benefits, few of us can identify local species or the fisherfolk who supply them. September 25 marks the nationwide debut of Bon Appétit Management Company’s first-ever Eat Local (Fish) Challenge, to be held simultaneously in all 32 states in which it operates. The event is an extension of our Eat Local Challenge, which we launched in 2005 to highlight locally harvested, seasonal flavors.
Mooray! Bon Appétit Management Company to Serve Happier Burgers
Effective September 1, 2012, all ground beef served in Bon Appétit cafés will come from suppliers that have met the strict standards of one of four independent animal-welfare organizations. (Beef purchases from small, local producers who are registered through the company’s Farm to Fork program will continue to make the cut.)
BAMCO Partners with Chef Loretta Keller and Exploratorium for New Cafés
Today Bon Appétit Management Company announced its agreement with the Exploratorium, in partnership with acclaimed San Francisco chef Loretta Keller, to create seasonal and sustainable fare at the museum’s new Pier 15 site on the Embarcadero at Green Street, when it relocates in 2013. Under Ms. Keller’s direction, the award-winning, Palo Alto–based food service group will procure and prepare all of the food for the new museum site, including the sidewalk café on the west side of the pier off the Embarcadero and the waterfront café on the east side, in the all-glass Bay Observatory Building.
VP Maisie Greenawalt Named Silicon Valley Woman of Influence
The Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal has included Maisie Greenawalt on its annual Women of Influence list, recognizing 100 female executives who are making significant change in their industries and their communities. An advocate for sustainability in the food system in general and farmworker rights in particular, Maisie joins heroines of technology, banking, healthcare, and more.