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Tuesday, August 20, 2013
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for a dining facility. Along with the Iris Cameras, both dining facilities will be reducing their waste output with added sustainability features. Neither dining hall will have togo options because there are no Styrofoam cups or containers, and instead of multiple dumpsters for each location there is now only one, Crawford said. “I don’t see the harm in taking it with us,” Arika Cooper, junior business information systems, said. “It’s like going to a restaurant and paying for your food and not
taking the leftovers.” The dining facilities will not stay open 24/7 at first but will be able to if the need arises, Crawford said. “I’d rather give and then take away,” Crawford said. “If this place is packed at 11 o’clock at night then we will reevaluate.” Diners with special dietary needs will have their own food station in the Main Dining Commons known as No Whey!, servicing dietary needs from vegan to vegetarian to gluten free. “We have a nutritional
coordinator and she meets with different individuals with dietary needs and they meet with the chefs and we make sure that their diet is where it needs to be so they feel safe dining with us,” Crawford said. Lakeside Dining Commons will officially open today at 9 a.m. Crawford said, “I just feel like we have grown so much and we are at the point that we can service the students how we wanted to be able to service them and now that we have these state-of-the-art facilities it’s going to be fun.”
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Joshua Jones, freshman marketing major, samples the Backyard Gourmet station inside Main Dining Commons.
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Eagle Dining Services will offer gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan options in the Main Dining Commons. Page designed by Sarah Horne and Brittni Favorite
An Eagle Dining Services employee grills burgers for hungry patrons in the new Main Dining Commons. To contact the news editor, email ganewsed@georgiasouthern.edu.