The University at Buffalo has developed a COVID-19 dining service plan that’s encouraging greater use of CBORD’s GET app and other social distancing protocols to make the dining experience safe and efficient during the fall semester. GET links students’ UB Cards to their smartphones and enables contactless transactions as well as to order food, make reservations and add funds to student accounts.

The University of Tennessee’s Vol Dining is implementing CBORD’s GET Food app to support mobile food ordering this fall. Vol Dining will continue to be open for the semester with protective measures to make the student dining experience as convenient, safe and enjoyable as possible.

The University of Southern Mississippi is making alterations to its dining services by introducing touchless payments for students in campus dining facilities. The payment changes come in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and will join other measures, including socially distant seating, and changes to how food is prepared at all university dining venues.

The University of Georgia is gearing up for increased takeout dining options with students returning to campus this fall. The dining changes come as the university seeks to offer safe and sanitary options amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Mercer University Auxiliary Services and Mercer Dining will introduce Transact Mobile Ordering to its students this August. The move will enable Mercer students to order ahead and skip the line for pickup at the university’s retail dining locations.

Boston’s Suffolk University has partnered with Grubhub to provide its students with another dining alternative. The move will expand the dining options available to Suffolk students and enable greater use of the campus card for payment. The partnership comes during a time of transition in higher ed as the university community adapts to a new campus normal and prepares to welcome students back.

A survey conducted by Nutrislice, a food-service digital engagement and solution provider, is reinforcing the importance of mobile dining solutions in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The survey was circulated to some 800 college and university students across the US, and sought to clarify student expectations around campus dining amid a proposed return this fall.

Georgia Southern University has been providing mobile ordering to its students since 2015 and has seen nothing but strong usage and order volumes year on year. But as the university’s contract with its mobile ordering provider was approaching renewal in June of 2019, the university began weighing its options. Here’s how the university chose Transact Mobile Ordering.

Despite a vast majority of students returning to their homes for the remainder of the academic calendar, many universities are still serving a small number of students for whom traveling home isn’t an option. Vanderbilt University is one such campus, and Vandy Campus Dining has established a care package service for its remaining on-campus residents to help them during the pandemic shutdown.

In response to the campus shutdowns and students moving to either their homes or off campus, Grubhub has instituted measures to help universities adapt to the new landscape. The company is enabling students to use their campus funds at Grubhub restaurants across the country along with a handful of other initiatives designed to provide dining alternatives during campus closures.