Updated: Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 1:37pm
Students hoping to pull all-nighters during Reading Week may want to avoid the Thain Family Café. According to several reports from student employees and a document obtained by the News that appears to be part of the café’s internal records, some managers at the café have been substituting decaf espresso for caffeinated espresso at various times since the fall —...
For Rafi Taherian, the first organic oatmeal cranberry cookie was a good one. “[Interim Director of Residential Dining Operations Chuck Bennett] says they’re the best,” Taherian says, biting into one on Friday morning in the Saybrook College Dining Hall. The cookie was just one of many Yale “firsts” for Yale’s incoming executive director of dining services...
Aramark, the food-services company formerly employed by Yale University Dining Services, is now facing allegations of mismanagement and poor food quality from cafeteria workers and custodians in New Haven Public Schools. Complaints about Aramark began in late November when a few parents expressed concern over the food quality at a school board meeting and have escalated...
Hungry Hounies looking for dinner Tuesday night were turned away from their dining hall doors by what a posted sign characterized as “unforeseen circumstances.” Around 4 p.m., hood fire protection systems in the basement kitchen of the Calhoun College dining hall sprayed flame retardants throughout the room, although a fire had not actually broken out, Charles...
Timothy Dwight College has restricted a portion of its lunches on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons to exclude students not in TD — possibly in order to prevent a space crunch resulting from an infusion of Directed Studies students from the nearby Whitney Humanities Center, several students speculated. Signs posted Tuesday near the college’s dining hall on...
After a six-month search, the University announced Friday that Rafi Taherian, currently executive director of Stanford University dining, will become executive director of Yale University Dining Services in March. Taherian will take the reigns from outgoing executive director Don McQuarrie, whose contract expires at the end of February. McQuarrie — who has served as...
Karen Dougherty sees her job as providing Yalies with a variety of meal options — and then hoping they choose the healthy ones. “It’s up to [the students] to make the nutritious choices,” Dougherty, the director of communications for Yale University Dining Services, said. “We’re not going to stop serving sugary cereal and gooey desserts.” For some...
Backing off from initial enthusiasm towards a Yale College Council proposal to install take-out bins in residential college dining halls, Yale University Dining Services has turned down a proposed pilot program that would have begun this term. The proposal, drafted by Pierson College representative Matt Eisen ’10, worked its way through a series of YCC committees and...
Time-strapped students accustomed to sneaking their dinner from Yale’s dining halls for late-night consumption may soon be able to do so without risking glares and slaps on the wrist from dining-hall employees. Pursuant to a Yale College Council proposal to expand dining options, Yale University Dining Services administrators have agreed to analyze the feasibility of...
Three finalists remain in Yale University Dining Services’ search for a new executive director, YUDS officials told the News this week. The final three candidates will visit campus next Thursday and Friday for a round of meetings with staff, managers and several students, Director of Residential Operations Charles Bennett said. YUDS officials declined to release the...
Kim Dwyer is a mother who hates to say no to her kids, especially when they are hungry. But since undergraduates can no longer “double swipe,” while working the register at the Law School dining hall this year, she often has no choice. Following a change in University Dining Services policy this year, students on a meal plan can no longer swipe twice — once for...
Yale’s oft-neglected tofu apple crisp is finally getting its just desserts. The University was recognized as one of peta2’s “Most Vegetarian-Friendly Colleges in America” last week. Peta2, the youth-focused division of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, evaluated colleges based on the quality and regular availability of their vegetarian and vegan dining...
