University of Wisconsin-Stout
OP-6: Food and Beverage Purchasing

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Food purchased that was grown and processed within 250 miles or third-party certified: Baker's Quality Pizza Crust Barilla America Belgioioso Cheese Cady Creek Cheese Ellsworth Coop Creamery Fifth Season Apples Fifth Season Pasta Foremost Farms Gold'N Plump Kemp's Lakeside Foods Nasonville Dairy Organic Valley Riverside Foods Saputo Cheese Silver Springs Sparboe Farms Burnett Dairy Dough Shop Food Service Specialties

The Sustainability Office requested the following from UW-Stout's Dining Service: Food procurement reports from our prime vendor, Reinhart Food procurement reports from our secondary vendor, USFoods Total purchases for Kemp's, UW-Stout's main dairy supplier Any other purchases made outside of these vendors Any third-party certified products that our Dining Services purchased First, we were able to get a total spend for food for FY2014. After that, we drilled down through all the reports, to see which products were from vendors located within 250 miles of our campus. Once we arrived at a listing of vendors meeting this criteria, we contacted the vendors to ask where they sourced their ingredients from. If they sourced their ingredients from within 250 miles of our campus, we kept them on our list. If they sourced them from outside of this range, we removed them from our list. We also added third-party certified products to this list. After this, we simply added up the total amounts from this list and arrived at our final STARS total, $390,171.39 of a total annual spend of $2,424,166.41, or 16.1%. Kemp's, our dairy supplier, verified that they source their milk from farms within 250 miles of UW-Stout.