I found an article on kentucky.com published by the Herald Leader entitled “University of Kentucky plans to privatize its dining services.” This was written by Linda Blackford.
Blackford explains how the University of Kentucky will be privatizing their dining services. This means they will be working with other companies, like sponsorships, to improve the overall quality of the student’s dining experience. The University’s biggest fear was that all of their products will be outsourced, but Capilouto urged to have the use of “Kentucky Proud” locally grown products in the contract. This will expand UK’s locally grown food budget, which now stands at nearly $1.8 million a year. Blackford also mentioned that UK partnered up with a big developer from Michigan, Education Realty Trust, to build $348 million worth in new dorms. Which is projected to bring 21% more students to the University by next fall. Sadly that did not include any new dining facilities. So UK is now requesting donors from $25 to $50 million to use on new dining halls that match the new residence halls under construction. All of the money they are spending makes me think, Is this worth it? Will the service actually be better? If not how else would this money be spent?
Michael, this is a great picture, but it looks like you might have included the wrong text with it. This blog post says the same thing as the previous post.
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