Friday, February 17, 2017

Latest Update, negative turn on capstone

Upon meeting with Dining Services I have come to the conclusion that my plan for my capstone, although good on paper, is impossible due to lack of funds. The company they get their food from is U.S. Foods. This company provides food for the dining hall based on what is requested and what brands are in stock. Seeing as the goal was to provide nutrition information to the dining hall, it was brought to my attention that as these brands may change, depending on what’s in stock, the nutritional information is also subject to change. In order to combat this issue I suggested changing our food company to either Aramark or Sodexo. The problems they gave me with accordance to this change was: lack of funds, change in staff (employees losing their jobs), and a static menu. Personally I still believe that our school would benefit from this change, but without the directors of dining services behind me there isn’t much I can do, unless I were to bypass them and go to the President directly, but again this is a monetary issue.