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Kentucky Kernel

The Student News Site of University of Kentucky

Kentucky Kernel

The Student News Site of University of Kentucky

Kentucky Kernel

Students eat at The 90 dining hall on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Michael Clubb | Staff file photo

‘A serendipitous situation.’ UK dining hall offers local, sustainable food options

Emily Girard September 16, 2021

The Fresh Food Company at The 90 has been dedicated to local, sustainable operations since its construction in 2015, and it has recently implemented programs to further this goal.The University of Kentucky...

Champions Kitchen will open to students on Sunday, Jan. 7 at 2 p.m. Pushed-in high-top chairs sit at Champions Kitchen on Friday, January 5, 2018 in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Rick Childress | Staff

UK approved to expand Gatton Student Center dining areas

Sydney Momeyer October 18, 2019

Construction on the University of Kentucky's new Gatton Student Center isn't done quite just yet.In a unanimous decision during Friday's Board of Trustees meeting inside Kroger Field's Woodford Reserve...

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UK, Aramark no longer consider Coca-Cola and Home City Ice to be local food

By Blair Johnson October 5, 2016

UK will alter their classification of “local foods” to include more products from Kentucky farmers.The university will have to work with its partner Aramark to determine how much food they purchase...

The graphic compares the amount of flex dollars spent over versus the amount not spent over the past five years. Percentages represent flex not spent. UK Dining provided the data.

Flex excess adds up to over $120,000 for last academic year

August 22, 2016

At the end of each semester, some UK students have large amounts of flex dollars left on their meal plans. And at the end of each school year, all of those unspent flex dollars disappear from their accounts. Flex...

Over the past five years, an average of about $162,482.29 flex dollars are not spent, according to data from UK Dining. 

Flex dollar spending up last school year

August 2, 2016

At the end of each semester, some UK students have large amounts of flex dollars left on their meal plans.For the last school year, UK Dining reported that $122,551.62 flex dollars were left over. The...

Bi-Water Farm and Greenhouse displays the KY Proud logo on the wall of their general store. Photo by Kelly Brightmore

Kentucky Proud, not so local

Editorial Staff April 18, 2016

There’s no debate over whether Kentucky Proud has the right idea. By supporting Kentucky farmers and producers, the state economy can grow, and consumers who can’t easily access a farmer’s market...

Founded in 1959 by Carl and Bertha Fister, Bi-Water Farm and Greenhouse is a mainstay in Kentucky farming and agriculture, and a member of Kentucky Proud. Photo by Kelly Brightmore

Kentucky Proud’s ‘local food’ not so local

Marjorie Kirk Adam Pennavaria Jamilyn Hall Matthew Wickstrom Emily Markanich Kelly Brightmore April 4, 2016

What are Kentucky Proud products?When Aramark signed a contract with UK requiring a yearly, increasing quota of $1.2 million for Kentucky Proud products, supporters of Kentucky’s local food movement...

File Photo by Jonathan Krueger | Staff

Aramark partnership leads to increase in sales, employment for UK Dining

Patrick Brennan February 16, 2016

[email protected] Dining partnered with Aramark in the summer of 2014, and the transformed food service has seen increased sales and more employees.In the last fiscal year that UK Dining was self-operated,...

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