Overall Rating	Gold - expired
Overall Score	65.89
Liaison	Marian Brown
Submission Date	Dec. 13, 2017
Executive Letter	Download

STARS v2.1

Wells College
OP-7: Food and Beverage Purchasing

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	1.66 / 6.00	Marian Brown Director Center for Sustainability and the Environment

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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

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:

Part 2

Animal Products

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

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):

Food and Beverage Purchasing Inventory

Required if pursuing either part of the credit:

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):

Wells Dining is aware of the college's desire for more sustainable food and beverages. Wells contracted in 2016 with a new vending contractor, and as part of that new program, the contractor is offering healthier, more sustainable snack products and beverages in vending equipment. The student-run Grind Cafe at Wells brands itself as a more sustainable coffee shop, featuring Fair-Trade certified coffees and teas and other food products (chocolates).

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):

STARS Food and Beverage Inventory v2.1.3 - Wells College - 1-12-2018.xlsx

A brief description of the methodology used to conduct the inventory, including the timeframe and how representative samples accounted for seasonal variation (if applicable):

Wells Dining supplied complete invoices for all food purveyors for the months of April 2017 and October 2017. The director of the Center for Sustainability analyzed those spending records and utilized information available from the various providers about 3rd party certifications of their products and identified all local-community based producers. The management team for the GRIND Cafe also provided all receipts and purchasing records for April 2017 and September 2017. Based upon AASHE Review team comments, in January 2018 we revised our inventory to remove spending on ineligible products (products produced by locally based companies but those that do not meet "community-based" standards for private ownership or whose annual gross sales exceed Real Food Challenge guidelines).

If uploading output from the Real Food Calculator, provide:

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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Required if pursuing either part of the credit:

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	Yes	Yes
Franchises (e.g. national or global brands)	No	No
Convenience stores	No	No
Vending services	Yes	No
Concessions	No	No

Optional Fields

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

Wegmans Foods sources all of its dairy products from local farms near its manufacturing facilities in upstate NY. Perry's Ice Cream sources its milk and cream from local dairy farms near its manufacturing in upstate NY. Byrne Dairy, Chobani, FairLife, Land O' Lakes, and Crowley Foods (as part of Hood), companies from which we purchase dairy products, all actively participate in the National Milk Producers Federation FARM (Farmers Assuring Responsible Management) animal welfare program. The FARM dairly animal welfare management guidelines are verified by both trained second and third-party evaluators. The second-party evaluation is completed on every participating dairy at a minimum of once every three years. The FARM program also has environmental stewardship and antibiotic usage guidelines.

Additional percentage of dining services food and beverage expenditures on conventional products with other sustainability attributes not recognized above (0-100) :

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:

http://www.nationaldairyfarm.com/

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

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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.