Students enjoy Food Fair

CSC Dining Services brings Food Vendor Show to campus to provide new food experiences

The Student Center Ballroom was filled with students, faculty and staff, and various foods during the CSC Dinning Services Food Vendor Show Friday. Those who attended were treated to free samples of chicken, steak, cinnamon rolls, various produce, and much more.

Thirteen vendors displayed and handed out various samples for attendees to try. Although a count of attendees was not taken, the vendors commented that the crowd seemed bigger than in past years, according to CSC Dining Services Resident Operations Director Tracy Shuck. At the time Shuck was asked about feedback those who attended gave, he had no comment due to the amount of feedback received and not having sat down and read them yet.

The Dining Services hosts the Food Vendor Show as a “monetary break,” according to Shuck, after coming back from the holiday break there’s a long eight weeks. They use it “to serve the students something different from the cafeteria or food court,” Shuck said.

“If they (vendors) have new products to show off we have a great market,” Shuck said.

Not only is the vendor show free, but it allows the students to try new products and give the vendors a different audience than the bigger vendor shows they normally attend according to Shuck.

Most of the vendors that participate in the show are used by the Dining Services “in some form or another,” according to Shuck. The produce table at the show is the vendor which the school’s produce is purchased from, and the cafeteria pizza crust is purchased from the Key Impact vendor. New vendors such as Rich’s, who brought cinnamon rolls, may be looked into and purchased for the coffee shop, Shuck said.

“We enjoy putting it together,” Shuck said. “We are glad everyone has a good time and it’s always a surprise to us at what vendors are coming.”