Dining
Advisory Committee Meeting:
March
26, 2010
o
Retail
o Smoothies now available
o Spring and Easter Candy on sale in the
Cabaret
o Concerns for stronger coffee in Donnelly
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Currently
have a French Roast blend
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Adding
o New Limited Time Offers
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Fresh
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Banana
Foster Muffin
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Residential
News:
o New Aspretto
Coffee!
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Excellent
reviews from students
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Nice,
strong, brewed, coffee!
o Mai Pham – Spotlight Chef!
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Thai
and Vietnamese Cuisine
·
Intro
event 3/1 – Traveling Chef 3/10 – and Creatively Cooking w/ Mai Pham – 3/31
COMING UP!
o Valley Café – We are growing!
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Thank
you for your support and promotion of this endeavor
o Easter Hours
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Dining
Hall will close April 1, 2010 @ 3:30pm
·
Reopens
Monday, April 5, 2010 @ 4:30pm
o
C-Store
Focus Group Questions - Steve
o
Open
Floor
o Questions, Comments, Concerns – How are we
doing?
o
Next
Meeting: Friday, April 15, 2010 @ 12:15pm
Meeting
Minutes/Notes:
Dessert/Bakery
Station:
·
Like
the layout/concept of the dessert station at New Paltz
o Serving glass display to keep things warm
o Larger variety of coffee
o Cinnamon rolls
o Steve Sansola
commented
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Cannot
implement because of a spatial issues, personnel, has a different espresso/hot
chocolate concept,
o Students would like to see a frost your own
cupcake event
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Bagels
and Rolls seem to be better at New Paltz
o We both order from Rockland Bagels so will
check
o Wheat bagels and everything bagels needed in
the AM
o Suggested that staff add variety early in
the morning to the bagels they put out.
Valley Café
·
Middle
Eastern Cuisine for the Valley Café – ex. Tabuli
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Middle
Eastern for international night…
Vegetarian/Vegan
Option in Retail
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Students
are suggesting vegan cream cheese in both retail and residential, but
especially retail
Training and execution:
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Cashiers
should be properly trained.
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Students
are complaining that they are not charged accurately – ex. charging Marist
Money when they asked for Thrifty.
o Happened to Andrew twice @ Jazzman’s
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We will
make sure cashiers are properly trained
Positive
reinforcement:
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Specialty
Salads:
o They like
o Students would like to see options to
purchase the fresh, in-house made salads by the pound.
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Cleaner
utensils:
o Students have found cleaner dishes, but we
should still reinforce that silverware be ran through twice.
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Enjoy
the ice cream station and the Wednesday specials. When asked if they wanted the
larger bakery back or if they would like the ice cream to stay, students chose
the ice cream.
C-Store Questions – 10 minutes – Steve Sansola
What’s best about
K&D Deli? What are you looking for in a deli?
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Breakfast
sandwiches, candy, milk, medicine/pharmacy section, laundry detergent, laundry
sheets (laundry stuff more from rite aid)
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Ready
–to-go meals?
o Not to into it…
o Lean Cuisine and Hungry Man (Jeannie)
o Eggs or bread
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They
would like to see organic and sustainable products like chips, pot pies,
granola bars, cereal, yogurt, and juices.
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Andrew
suggests making it like a deli atmosphere.
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Group
suggests that fresh produce be sold at Jazzman’s 1/week – maybe even all the
time.
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Service
– needs to fast service
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Marist
compared to Vassar:
o Vassar sales local milk.
o Local milk venders in the process of being
approved by Sodexo
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Would
like to see it in retail by the fall.