This week marks the last full week before Thanksgiving Break, and so Dining & Catering, in line with its yearly tradition, served up some Thanksgiving dinner for students. This event always falls the Thursday before Thanksgiving Thursday, and students line up out the doors to take part in the meal. This year, we were lucky to have …
Gingerbread is Coming to Town!
This week marks the kick off of the Gingerbread Contest, an annual Purdue Dining & Catering event featuring Dining & Catering employees working with students to build their gingerbread houses. Houses in the past have been massive, creative and very detailed. The gingerbread houses are displayed in the dining courts of their origin to help make …
Indiana Harvest Party
For Green Week this week, Purdue Dining & Catering put on a week of education on locally-sourced foods! Each of the dining courts had one lunch day specifically sponsoring locally-sourced foods, and we decided to check out the various events. Throughout the week, the dining courts featured foods like Spinach Beet Salad, Potatoes au Gratin, …
HOW TO: Take Back Hillenbrand
Most everyone on campus this year knows that Purdue Dining & Catering has added several new ways of using meal swipes, beyond just eating in the dining courts. Some of these new ways include The Daily Bite campus food truck; Lemongrass, Pappy’s, Flatbreads and Oasis at the Union; and Take Back Hillenbrand. For today’s post, …
Meet the Dining Ambassadors!
This year, Purdue Dining & Catering is adding an exciting new position! Meet the Dining Ambassadors, your envoys into the world of food. Our job is focused on helping Purdue Dining & Catering make good things happen. We work to accomplish this goal in a variety of ways, from going out and speaking to the public about …
