Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 56.59
Liaison Rob Andrejewski
Submission Date Feb. 15, 2016
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STARS v2.0

University of Richmond
OP-6: Food and Beverage Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.13 / 4.00 Cathy Moran
Director of Purchasing for Dining Services
University Dining Services
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Percentage of dining services food and beverage expenditures that are local and community-based and/or third party verified:
3.23

A copy of an inventory, list or sample of sustainable food and beverage purchases:
An inventory, list or sample of sustainable food and beverage purchases:

See upload


Does the institution wish to pursue Part 2 of this credit (food and beverage expenditures for on-site franchises, convenience stores, vending services, or concessions)?:
No

Percentage of on-site franchise, convenience store, vending services, and concessions food and beverage purchases that are local and community-based and/or third party verified:
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A copy of an inventory, list or sample of on-site franchise, convenience store, vending machine, and/or concessions food and beverage purchases that are sustainably produced:
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An inventory, list or sample of on-site franchise, convenience store, vending machine, and/or concessions food and beverage purchases that are sustainably produced:

N/A


A brief description of the sustainable food and beverage purchasing program:

Dining Services is committed to supporting of the local business community. Working with our primary vendor, Performance Foods, we identified dozens of companies and distributors located within 250 miles of campus. To educate our customers on these partnerships, we created large banners made to hang in the dining room and at the dish room of the Heilman Dining Center.

In addition to foods that are ecologicially sound, fair, humane, and local & community based, Dining Services is dedicated to supporting local employers (whether or not they meet the BALLE standards). We try to buy from agencies that support Richmond residents, including the following: Seasonal Fruits & Vegetables, Twin Oak’s Tofu, Nabisco, Ready Mix Biscuit Mix, Sabra Hummus, Carolina Turkey, Smithfield Ham, Marva Maid Milk, Blanchard’s Coffee, Glenview Farms Cheese and more.

Sustainable Seafood: Executive Chef Glenn Pruden works with a local, sustainable seafood company, Profish, to buy the freshest seafood available each week and puts it on the menu accordingly. When served, we post signage that indicates where the item is from and in most cases how it was caught or farmed. We added QR codes to the signage to enable people with smart phones to scan and go right to the information.

Dining services uses the Virginia Fruit and Vegetable Availability Calendars as a guide to incorporate local produce on our menus and to increase awareness of eating seasonally.

We are also continuing our efforts to compost pre-consumer food waste, reusable to-go materials, green cleaning, and a variety of sustainability-related endeavors.


A brief description of the methodology used to track/inventory sustainable food and beverage purchases:

To track sustainable food purchasing, the University of Richmond adopted the Real Food Challenge criteria and utilized the RFC calculator to track six months of data in the Hielman Dining Center. This comprises about 90% of the food purchased for campus.


Total annual food and beverage expenditures:
6,127,331 US/Canadian $

Which of the following food service providers are present on campus and included in the total food and beverage expenditure figures?:
Present? Included?
Dining operations and catering services operated by the institution Yes Yes
Dining operations and catering services operated by a contractor No No
Franchises No No
Convenience stores No No
Vending services No No
Concessions No No

Has the institution achieved the following?:
Yes or No
Fair Trade Campus, College or University status No
Certification under the Green Seal Standard for Restaurants and Food Services (GS-46) No
Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification No
Signatory of the Real Food Campus Commitment (U.S.) No

A brief description of other sustainable restaurant and food service standards that the institution’s dining services operations are certified under:

Buy Local: We are always expanding our list of local vendors as they become available. Some the items we purchase locally include: Seasonal Fruits & Vegetables, Twin Oak’s Tofu, Blanchard’s Coffee, Glenview Farms Cheese and much more. This year at the Heilman Dining Center we will be providing special signage for items indicating local vendors.

Sustainable Seafood: Executive Chef Glenn Pruden works with a local, sustainable seafood company; Profish, to buy the freshest seafood available each week and puts it on the menu accordingly. When served, we post signage that indicates where the item is from and in most cases how it was caught or farmed.

Dining Services hands out 1200-1400 Live Well, Dine Green mugs to students on meal
plans in September. Mugs are designed with the same artwork as the banners.
Heilman Dining Center will continue to provide the reusable HDC to Go containers for purchase to carryout meals.


The website URL where information about the institution's sustainable food and beverage purchasing efforts is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Data for this credit is coming from 6 months of purchases (July-December 2014) for Heilman Dining Center (HDC). Dining Services believes this is an accurate representation of University-wide dining purchases.


Data for this credit is coming from 6 months of purchases (July-December 2014) for Heilman Dining Center (HDC). Dining Services believes this is an accurate representation of University-wide dining purchases.

The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.