Colleges getting rid of trays

Change made to discourage waste of food Gannett News Service • August 13, 2008 Something familiar will be missing when students buy meals at many college dining halls this fall: trays. In a bid to discourage food waste and decrease energy use at all-you-can-eat cafeterias, dozens of college dining services - from New York University to University of Minnesota - are giving trays the heave. With food costs rising and college students increasingly concerned about the imprint their schools leave on the environment, catering giants Aramark and Sodexo have turned going trayless into campus chic. No trays means no place to pile dishes of stuff many students only sample then toss. Some campuses that already have tested the concept report food waste declines of up to 50 percent. Then, there's the thousands of dollars in energy savings... [read full story]