Update on the Fresh Food Company at Moody Towers

In the first 5 days of operation, the Fresh Food Company (FFCo) served 10,705 more meals than were served in the old Moody RFoC in the same period last year! The facility served over 2,000 more meals per day.

Students have signed up for plans totaling about 47,000 meals per week this year compared to about 25,000 meals for the same period last year.

The FFCo is open until midnight seven days a week, marking the first time a true late-night option has been available to students.

A great many sustainability initiatives and improvements have been incorporated into the concept, including the following:

• Unbleached recycled-content napkins
  
• Compact fluorescent light bulbs
  
• More energy efficient windows
  
• An entirely new and more energy efficient heating and cooling system
  
• The continuation and enhancement of the recyclable to-go containers program augmented with single-use recycled biodegradable content containers as an option
  
• Motion lighting in the bathrooms and offices
  
• Water purifiers in the dining hall
  
• And the elimination of straws (with the added benefit of fewer dishwasher breakdowns due to them getting jammed in the machines!)
  
• Waste pulper in the dish room to greatly reduce the volume of food debris that ends up in the waste stream ( we are also investigating technologies when teamed with the pulper could turn the waste stream in to reusable grey water)