Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 65.38
Liaison Jeremy King
Submission Date Feb. 28, 2019
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Denison University
OP-7: Food and Beverage Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.66 / 6.00 Jeremy King
Campus Sustainability Coordinator
Office of the President
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Percentage of dining services food and beverage expenditures on products that are third party verified under one or more recognized food and beverage sustainability standards or Local & Community-Based:
31.40

Does the institution wish to pursue Part 2 of this credit (expenditures on conventional animal products)? (If data is not available, respond “No”):
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):
0

A brief description of the sustainable food and beverage purchasing program, including how the sustainability impacts of products in specific categories are addressed (e.g. meat, poultry, fish/seafood, eggs, dairy, produce, tea/coffee):

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.


Percentage of total dining services expenditures on Real Food A (0-100):
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Percentage of total dining services expenditures on Real Food B (0-100):
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Which of the following food service providers are present on campus and included in the total food and beverage expenditure figures?:
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

A brief description of purchased food and beverage products that have other sustainability attributes not recognized above :
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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


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