Mobile food ordering on campus
How universities are extending reach of dining services
Engaging the on-the-go, on-demand generation
Why 66% of students are eating off campus, and how to reach them
17 Jan, 2020Central Michigan launches meal swipe donation program
Central Michigan University has launched a meal swipe donation program designed to help hungry students on campus. The meal swipe donation program will enable students to donate unused guest swipes to fellow students facing food insecurity, with donated swipes being be placed into a bank from which meals can be dispersed to students in need.
17 Jan, 2020Indiana University partners with Grubhub
Indiana University has announced a collaboration with Grubhub to take effect this week that will offer students the ability to place mobile orders from on-campus dining locations. The partnership is supporting food orders for pick-up through the Grubhub app and will include on-campus dining locations and a campus C-store.
20 Dec, 2019U. of Michigan professors test robot delivery concept in Ann Arbor
A startup company founded by two robotics experts at the University of Michigan is attempting to break into the recently expanding arena of robot delivery with a new delivery robot concept. Refraction has launched its autonomous delivery robot, the REV-1, and is delivering food orders from four independent restaurants within in a 2.5-mile radius of Ann Arbor, home of the University of Michigan.
13 Dec, 2019U. of Texas at Dallas deploys Starship delivery robots
The University of Texas at Dallas has reached an agreement with Starship Technologies that will see the company’s delivery robots deployed on the Dallas campus. The university’s food service provider, Chartwells, partnered with Starship Technologies to bring 30 delivery robots to the UT Dallas campus with the program officially launching on December 3.
22 Nov, 2019Boston University begins meal swipe donation program
Boston University has launched a new meal swipe donation program that enables students to give unused meal swipes to fellow students in need. The project is called Terrier Meal Share, and after a soft launch this semester the project is already making waves on campus.
15 Nov, 2019U. of Houston first Texas campus to deploy Starship delivery robots
Starship Technologies’ march on college campuses continues this week, with the addition of the University of Houston to the company’s autonomous robot delivery service. The Starship robots will now deliver food and drinks from participating merchants to students on the Houston campus.
08 Nov, 2019U. of Wisconsin-Madison adds Starship robot delivery
Starship Technologies has added another university to its growing list of campus clients, with the announcement that the University of Wisconsin-Madison will deploy the company’s robot delivery system on campus. UW-Madison will deploy a fleet of 30 Starship food delivery robots this week, and will open the delivery service to its 66,000 students faculty and staff from a roster of university-run, on-campus dining locations.
Enter the site