I’ve always liked the food at Cornell, and I especially enjoyed the food on West Campus. But before participating in today’s cafe, I had no idea that so much was happening at Cornell Dining. It serves around 22000 meals a day, and handling waste food, determining allergens, and setting up dining times all take more effort than they appear to be. The cafe covered a lot of miscellaneous things, but what I appreciate most about Cornell Dining is that they have been constantly trying to improve and introduce new things. Today I learned that Cornell Dining has now launched its own app, which I believe would be very convenient since I personally like to check menus and dining hours on my phone a lot.

Cornell Dining also has been trying very hard to promote healthy eating, encouraging us to eat more vegetables and fruit and control the amount of protein we intake. The ‘Five Days of Five’ event last semester, increasing about 10% more vegetables in the food served and rationing the meat in the dining halls all serve for this purpose. I feel this is very necessary because consuming excessive protein does not benefit our bodies at all but the production of meat uses up way much more resources than producing vegetables and fruit. Having more vegetables and fruit and limiting our proteins would both benefit our health and the environment. I totally support what Cornell Dining is doing and I hope it could really help people improve their diets.