http://www.rimag.com/article/440475-College_Food_Trends_for_2010.php
In this article in Restaurant and institution magazine, they profile Sodexho, a food service management establishment located on 600 campus around the country. It discusses food trends in the industry such as comfort foods and it discusses how college student often adopt regional fare as comfort foods. Suprisingly college students are showing an increase in interest of locally grown products.
I definately agree that while away at school, comfort foods are something that I crave. I often cook things that remind me of home. Also when I eat in the dinning halls I look for things that make me feel like I'm at home. I think that students nowadays are more aware of the environment around thwm, so the increased interest in local sourced food isnt surprising
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I have to agree with brittny comfort foods are a big thing to college students make you feel like you are back at home. When you have school that’s making food you enjoy puts a different look out of dining halls in your mind. Students are start to see what foods are good for them. So in a way some students may not thing comfort is the best.
ReplyDeleteI can't really give to much insite to wanting to try the foods of the local area, because I was raised in Boston, so all the classic foods are the same in Providence. I can say that a lot of my friends from outside New England are interested in trying the local foods. I never associated carved turkey with the north west though...interesting?
ReplyDeletei agree and am glad to see that on site foodservice companies are taking notice of college students wants and implementing it to their menus. i think this is a trend that will stay.
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