Bringing Local

Foods to Campus

UWSP – Dining Services

UWSP – history

Pre - June 2009

Current

Our Thought Process

• Define local foods

• Request for Proposal (RFP), liability hurdles

• Set realistic local purchasing goal

• Establish long-term partnerships

• Create educational programming

• Spread the word - public relations & marketing

• Remain fiscally responsible to students

• Build upon success incrementally

Define & Get Buy-in

Our Mission & Vision

• As a student-centered organization, the Dining Services team creates nutritious and sustainable meals, cultivates community, and enhances the educational experience on campus.

• University Dining Services will be the most successful and respected student managed dining program in North America.

Focus on increased utilization of local foods (produced within 100 miles of Stevens Point) and regional foods (produced within 250 miles of Stevens Point).

Follow the money………

Farm Fresh Atlas

• UDS asks that businesses pledge they are:

• family or cooperatively owned, or are nonprofit organizations whose mission it is to promote a sustainable, regional food system.

• operated in such a way that protects and sustains the region's land and water resources.

• providing safe and fair working conditions for employees.

• selling products made by using raw materials grown on Wisconsin farms.

• UDS asks that farms pledge they

are:

• family or cooperatively owned.

• committed to reducing the application

of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers.

• operated in such a way that protects

and sustains the region's land and

water resources.

• treating animals with care and respect.

• providing safe and fair working

conditions for employees.

• selling products of Wisconsin that are

grown on the farm, or that they helped

produce.

Request for Proposal

• UWSP wishes to purchase a target amount of 20% of food items from Wisconsin-based, environmentally friendly, organic, and natural food suppliers during the course of this contract. The campus seeks a partnership with the successful bidder to establish a cost effective program of local and sustainable purchasing. Local is defined as being produced within 100 miles of Stevens Point and regional as being produced within 250 miles of Stevens Point. Please provide detailed explanation about the ability of your company to provide local and sustainable products, as well as two customer references who can discuss your execution of providing local and sustainable products.

• University Dining Services at University of Wisconsin Stevens Point reserves the right to purchase food products that are not carried by the successful vendor from others if deemed in the best interest of the University and its students.

Liability insurance

• Minimum Limits: Minimum specified limits must be received unless prior approval is received by the Purchasing Director. These limits may be reached by combining a commercial general liability policy limit with an umbrella policy limit. For example, a vendor may have a general/automobile liability policy with a $500,000 limit and a $1,000,000 umbrella. This total meets a $1,000,000 general/automobile/umbrella requirement. Vendors Insurance Program: The Standard Limits are the minimum acceptable for any vendor, but there are specific requirements for vendors of high risk services that supersede the Standard Limits. Please refer to PRO-D-34 and this document before specifying vendor coverage requirements. If commodity purchase requires installation of heavy equipment, contact Risk Management.

• I. Standard Insurance Limits

•

• Workers Compensation (WC): Statutory Limits

• Each Accident $ 100,000

• Disease - Policy Limit $ 500,000

• Disease - Each Employee $ 100,000

•

• Commercial General Liability (CGL):

• General Aggregate including

• Products & Completed Operations $ 1,000,000

• Each Occurrence $ 1,000,000

•

• Automobile Liability:

• Combined Single Limit $ 1,000,000

Partners – Malek Farm

Heath Farms – 37 miles

Red Barn Dairy

Newgrass Farm

No hormones

No antibiotics or other drugs

No Genetically Modified Grains

No herbicides or Pesticides

No farm subsidies

PR & Marketing - bragging

• For Immediate Release

• University Dining Services (UDS) is committed to being a national leader in the buy local campus dining movement. Our goal is to support businesses so they can provide local jobs, economic development and that help us serve fresh and healthy food to students and staff. We are pleased to announce our continuing and new local partners:

• Malek Family Stewardship Farm Portesi Pizza

• NewGrass Farm Red Barn Dairy

• Earthcrust Bakery The Main Grain Bakery

• Heath Farms Emy J’s Café

• Atomic Joe’s Coffee Ninepatch Farm

• Soaring Energy Bars Turner’s Farm

• Screenmasters Brakebush Chicken

• Urban Best Big Apple Bagel

• O’So Brewing Company Hillemeyer Honey

Educational

programming

Programming continued

Programming continued

How do you like them apples?

Fiscal reality

Comparisons Conventional Local Difference %

Chicken breast $0.64 $2.05 $1.41 220%

6oz Red Mashed Potatoes $0.13 $0.33 $0.20 154%

4oz burger $0.57 $1.12 $0.55 96%

Mixed greens salad $0.38 $0.50 $0.12 32%

Apple $0.16 $0.23 $0.07 44%

Cup of Coffee $0.28 $0.39 $0.11 39%

Glass - Choc Milk $0.28 $0.31 $0.03 11%

Glass - 2% Milk $0.27 $0.29 $0.02 7%

Totals $2.71 $5.22 $2.51 93%

Cx, Mashed, Salad, Milk $2.35 $5.55 $3.20 136%

Burger, Mashed, Milk $1.24 $2.03 $0.79 64%

Cost Per Meal budget $2.05 **no recipe ingredients added to items

Questions?