Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
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Overall Score | 74.38 |
Liaison | Lisa Kilgore |
Submission Date | March 1, 2018 |
Executive Letter | Download |
Cornell University
OP-7: Food and Beverage Purchasing
Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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0.42 / 6.00 |
Daniel
Dosztan Purchasing Manager SAS Business Service Center |
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This credit requires:
- A completed STARS Food and Beverage Purchasing Inventory,
- An itemized inventory based on output from the Real Food Calculator, or
- An alternative inventory that includes for each product:
- Product vendor
- Product label/brand
- Product description
- The category in which the product qualifies (Third Party Verified or Local & Community Based)
- Information justifying inclusion: the standards met if the product is third party verified; ownership, size, distance, production methods for Local & Community Based products
Part 1
Third Party Verified and Community Based Products
8
Part 2
Animal Products
Yes
Percentage of total dining services food and beverage expenditures on conventional animal products (meat, poultry, fish/seafood, eggs, and dairy products that do NOT qualify in either the Third Party Verified or Local & Community-Based category):
71
Food and Beverage Purchasing Inventory
Required if pursuing either part of the credit:
Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station Farms provide all of our fresh potatoes, winter squash and corn in season and extended into January; We purchase local and regional fresh produce (~27%), canned tomato products are from local producers; 90% of dairy purchases are local (Cornell and other local producers) and Cornell and NY State apples when possible; we purchase some Marine Stewardship Council certified fish for 2 of our big dining units. The local beef program was reduced to using local beef burgers in two large retail units.
An inventory of the institution’s sustainable food and beverage purchases that includes for each product: the description/type; label, brand or producer; and the category in which it is being counted and/or a description of its sustainability attribute(s):
A brief description of the methodology used to conduct the inventory, including the timeframe and how representative samples accounted for seasonal variation (if applicable):
We have a food database that all of our orders and receipts are entered into. In this system each item that we buy it set up and flagged with unique identifiers such as local/regional. At any given time we can generate a report that will identify how much of a flagged item we have received for any time period.
If uploading output from the Real Food Calculator, provide:
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Percentage of total dining services expenditures on Real Food B (0-100):
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Required if pursuing either part of the credit:
Present? | Included? | |
Dining operations and catering services operated by the institution | Yes | Yes |
Dining operations and catering services operated by a contractor | No | No |
Student-run food/catering services | No | No |
Franchises (e.g. national or global brands) | No | No |
Convenience stores | Yes | Yes |
Vending services | Yes | No |
Concessions | Yes | No |
Optional Fields
Cornell Students are currently working on the Real Food Calculator with Cornell Dining.
Additional percentage of dining services food and beverage expenditures on conventional products with other sustainability attributes not recognized above (0-100) :
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The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
~27% of total FRESH produce food expenditures are grown and/or processed within 250 miles of Cornell University or third-party certified.
The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.