Bon Appétit Management Company

A small, marginalized group of tomato pickers has changed the way corporate behemoths do business, and their strategy could well take off.

Claire Cummings, Bon Appétit Management Company Foundation’s West Coast fellow, gets named the company’s waste sustainability specialist. In this interview she discusses her experience and the company’s commitment to food waste reduction and the huge differences it can make ecologically.

Hundreds of students came out to eat fresh fruits and veggies, and every piece of food was made from ingredients within a 150-mile radius of campus at Hamilton College’s ‘Eat Local Challenge.’

Far from the slop associated with many corporate and college cafeterias, a food service company is giving workers and students a healthy taste of locally sourced eats.

Enjoy a delicious recipe provided by Bon Appétit Management Company Executive Chef Thom Fox, and see tips on getting creative for hyper-local meals, from sugar and flour to olive oil and spices.

Chefs at Oberlin College introduced some unique menu items to students Monday, including bison with a mushroom demi glaze and pork loin roast with peach butter sauce.

Eat Local Challenge Day provides opportunity for Duke Dining to highlight milestones and challenges of local food purchasing. While students dined on all-locals meals they got to learn more about the campus farm and its role in closing a sustainability loop.

About 2,100 SCAD students and staffers were exposed to a fully local meal for Eat Local Challenge Day. It’s a challenge Executive Chef Emmanuel May loves both for the creativity it requires and the boost it gives local farmers, many of whom were recruited to become SCAD suppliers through the Forsyth Farmers Market.

For Eat Local Challenge Day, Oberlin College chefs served such items as White Feather Bison Salisbury steak with Valley City mushroom demi-glaze to support local economies and Farm to Fork partners.

When it comes to the partnership between St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges’ food provider Bon Appétit Management Company, and local farmers, everybody wins. Local farming and its importance to Bon Appétit were celebrated at Carleton on Tuesday during the Eat Local Challenge – a day when the college’s chefs create and showcase a menu made completely from local ingredients.