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Peanut butter on bread
NIU Housing and Dining will conduct its second annual customer-satisfaction survey from Monday, Oct. 28, through Friday, Nov. 8. The survey provides students with an opportunity to provide feedback on their dining experiences. The survey will help NIU Dining enhance its dining options with the goal to be among the nation’s best. “I encourage all...
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Douglas Dining Center is serving vegetarian and international cuisine for the fall 2013 and spring 2014 semester, NIU Housing and Dining has announced. “NIU has an established and committed vegetarian and international population located on-campus and off-campus. Members of the Student Food Committee brought concerns that students wanted a larger selection and variety of vegetarian...
NIU Housing and Dining will open the East Side Café in time for the fall semester. Located on the first floor of the newly renovated Gilbert Hall, the café will offer Starbucks coffee. “In response to years of students’ input that they wished that there would be more food and drink options on the east...
The place: professor Sheila Barrett’s spring 2013 FCNS 420 class. The time: Day One. As senior nutrition and dietetics majors Rachel McBride, Katie Henkel, Brittany Hoffman, Ariel Levitt and Ashley Sorrentino reviewed the syllabus, they noticed a capstone project required for the class. The group members chose to design and present a food safety workshop. McBride...
New Hall students sample exotic fruits, veggies
It was not a normal dining experience March 20 for students eating at New Hall: A table filled with fruits and vegetables caught students’ eyes and curiosities. Among the 40 unusual choices, “we had jack fruit, persimmon, Japanese pear, ugly fruit from Jamaica and dragon fruit, to name a few,” said Jose Rotor, senior nutrition...
Photo of a dinner plate of fish sticks, potatoes, creamy seafood salad and a lemon wedge
NIU Housing and Dining has begun hosting an all-you-can-eat fish fry from 4 to 7 p.m. every Friday this fall semester at Douglas Hall. “We are hearing that many NIU students say that they eat fish on Friday. We are seeing a lot of area restaurants, organizations and stores offering seafood on Friday, so we...