Welcome Back! We hope you had a nice break and are looking forward to an exciting new year.

We would like to thank those of you who completed our surveys, served on the Dinning Services Advisory Committee and shared your ideas, thoughts and concerns. Because of your feedback, we will be implementing a number of changes in our dining facilities for the Spring Semester. This update includes many of those changes that were made from your suggestions. With your continued support and input, we can continue to evolve and meet your needs.

Retail Concept Changes:
 

· We will be opening one more concept in Redhawks market every Monday-Thursday evening until 7pm. To help with variety, this will be a revolving concept that changes every 2 weeks. The concepts to be opened include Hearthstone Ovens, Wild Greens and Chef Yan Can Cook. To accommodate this change, Olive’s will close at 10 pm.

· A meal plan cheat sheet has been created to help identify meals that fit into your meal plan. This sheet can be found in Redhawks Market, or on our online menus page.

· Whole grain brown rice will be incorporated into some of our recipes and will also be available on a rotation at Chef Yan Can Cook.

· Pita pocket sandwiches have been added to the menu at Olive’s.

· At Scully Café, we will begin to offer a weekly feature hot sandwich.

· For additional variety, we will be expanding the chicken and tuna salad rotation to include ham salad, seafood salad and egg salad at our sandwich locations.

· For additional variety, regular and grilled subs will be available at Players Grill in the evening. However, toppings will be limited.

· For additional variety, Players Grill will offer the Wheat Street Weekly feature sandwich every evening.

· Olive’s will offer fresh baked pizza folds. These will be an easy grab and go entrée for a convenient on the go meal. 

· Chef Yan Can Cook will offer a new meal plan friendly Asian noodle dish. A six ounce entrée portion will only be $1.99.

· Olive’s will offer baked pasta entrées.

· Healthier dressings will be available on the side as part of Wild Greens.

Towers Café Changes:

· We will be serving Jennie-0® brand deli turkey in Towers Café and all retail dining outlets.

· As part of Menutainment, we will include fresh grilled tacos with Mexican restaurant style tortilla chips once a week.

· Whole grain brown rice will be included into our menu rotation.

· Unfortunately, due to seasonality, we are limited to the types of fresh fruit we can offer. What we can do is offer a cut fruit salad with a mixture of cantaloupe, bananas, honeydew and strawberries. In addition, we will include strawberries in some of our salad bar items as way to offer more fruit selections. This will be available at least twice a week.

· More whole wheat options will be included like whole wheat pancakes and whole wheat French toast.

· Cinnamon dessert pizza is back!

· The salad bar rotation has been changed. A new protein rotation has been developed that includes both vegetarian and non-vegetarian selections.

· A wider variety of salad dressing, including healthier selections, will be available.

· Fresh baked rolls and breads will accompany the salad bar.