| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 65.38 |
| Liaison | Jeremy King |
| Submission Date | Feb. 28, 2019 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Denison University
OP-7: Food and Beverage Purchasing
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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1.66 / 6.00 |
Jeremy
King Campus Sustainability Coordinator Office of the President |
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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
31.40
Part 2
Animal Products
No
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):
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Food and Beverage Purchasing Inventory
Required if pursuing either part of the credit:
Sustainability is at the heart of the food and beverage program managed by Bon Appetit @ Denison University. We have a company-wide goal to source at least 20% of ingredients, by dollar, from small, local, owner operated farmers and artisans; prioritize plant-based proteins in the café and offer vegetarian options at every meal; cook from scratch, including stocks, sauces, and soups; prevent and minimize waste in a number of ways; purchase only cage-free and third party certified eggs, pork raised without the use of gestation crates, and ground beef from Certified Humane operations or small, local farmers. Our seafood is never airfreighted and is purchased in accordance with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Guidelines for Sustainability, and we’ve been at the forefront of the right for farmworkers rights – including hosting an annual National Farmworker Awareness Week on campus. Last but not least, we communicate with guests through menus in the cafes and through our guest facing website (www.cafebonappetit.com) in order to share our sustainability related policies, the local farms we source from and their distance from the campus, and menu items with COR icons that relay information related to each of these standards.
Our Denison Specific Sustainable food and beverage policy is:
Responsibly sourced food for Denison means that we prioritize foods that are locally grown and produced by small, owner-operated farms and businesses within 150 miles of our campus. Responsibly sourced animal products including meat, cheese, and dairy are from animals who were raised in humane conditions, fed vegetarian diets free of sub-therapeutic antibiotics, and ideally pasture raised when applicable. Responsibly sourced seafood is certified as green or yellow through the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch guidelines. If a product cannot be sourced locally, it can be responsibly sourced if it has a third-party animal welfare or organic certification, either direct or Fair Trade, addresses climate change, or is from a company that has exemplary social justice or corporate responsibility practices.
On our inventory all Farm-to-Fork listings are included because they fit the parameters as outlined here: http://www.bamco.com/sourcing/farm-to-fork-criteria/
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 took the average of two representative months in 2018, February and September. These months were selected because they represent the lowest spend on sustainable foods (Feb) and the highest spend (Sept). We track categories of spend on our sustainability commitments through coding, and we used a report generated on sustainable purchasing compliance to generate those numbers, dividing by total purchases to obtain percentages.
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 | No | No |
| Dining operations and catering services operated by a contractor | Yes | Yes |
| 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 | Yes |
Optional Fields
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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:
Contacts for Bon Appetit:
Paul Taylor or Piper Fernwey- paul.taylor@cafebonappetit.com/ piper.fernway@cafebonappetit.com
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.