Dining Articles

As the 25th-anniversary year of Dining Services comes to a close, the department announces some upcoming changes: On May 17, the Susquehanna Room will be renamed the Keystone Dining Room. This change reflects not onlyPennsylvania's role as theKeystone State, but recognizes this unit asPennsylvania College of Technology'skey, foundational student dining venue.

Customers in the Susquehanna Room will notice a change this week, as Pennsylvania College of Technology's Food Services takes another step toward "Going Green." To help reduce the amount of waste that is sent daily to the landfill, garbage cans have been removed from the dining area and students andemployees are asked to take all items to the dish room for disposal.

Cristen L. "Crissy" Matter has been appointed director of food services at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

Customers now are able to purchase whole pizzas from Fresh, the Food Services dining unit located on the first floor of the ATHS. Orders for whole pizzas may be placed for pickup between 4-9 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Customers can order a cheese pizza for $8.50, pepperoni pizza for $10.25 and the day's specialty pizza for $13.95. Orders can be placed in person at the dining unit.

Penn College Food Services dining units are accepting credit and non-PIN debit cards at unit registers. Accepted cards will include MasterCard, Visa, Discover and the PCT OneCard. All registers will continue to accept meal plans, Wildcat Plus and cash.

Penn College Food Services will open a new dining unit this fall in the ATHS. Fresh, which will feature pizza-by-the-slice, grab-'n'-go sandwiches, salads, vegetables, fruit and other snacks, will be located in the current vending room on the west side of the building.

Pennsylvania College of Technology is involved in a number of cooperative ventures to benefit the environment, ensuring that Earth Day is celebrated more than once a year.

Two food vendors used by Penn College Food Services are right on top of some recent national food- and health-related headlines. Dean Foods recently announced that a number of its processing plants no longer will accept milk produced by cows injected with the synthetic growth hormone recombinant bovine somatropin (rBST or rBGH).

CC Commons, Penn College's newest dining unit on campus, has opened on the first floor of the Bush Campus Center. Designed to be an all-you-can-eat facility for students with board meal plans,italso has a cash price for declining-balance or cash customers. Menus at CC Commons change from lunch to dinner, and every day there is a different selection.

For the 2004-05 school year, Pennsylvania College of Technology has added to the list of foods it will purchase from area farms by awarding its ground-beef contract to a cooperative of farmers who raise grass-fed cattle.