Dining Services Articles

Customers now are able to purchase whole pizzas from Fresh, the Food Services dining unit located on the first floor of the ATHS. Orders for whole pizzas may be placed for pickup between 4-9 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Customers can order a cheese pizza for $8.50, pepperoni pizza for $10.25 and the day's specialty pizza for $13.95. Orders can be placed in person at the dining unit.

Penn College Food Services dining units are accepting credit and non-PIN debit cards at unit registers. Accepted cards will include MasterCard, Visa, Discover and the PCT OneCard. All registers will continue to accept meal plans, Wildcat Plus and cash.

Penn College Food Services will open a new dining unit this fall in the ATHS. Fresh, which will feature pizza-by-the-slice, grab-'n'-go sandwiches, salads, vegetables, fruit and other snacks, will be located in the current vending room on the west side of the building.

Pennsylvania College of Technology is involved in a number of cooperative ventures to benefit the environment, ensuring that Earth Day is celebrated more than once a year.

Two food vendors used by Penn College Food Services are right on top of some recent national food- and health-related headlines. Dean Foods recently announced that a number of its processing plants no longer will accept milk produced by cows injected with the synthetic growth hormone recombinant bovine somatropin (rBST or rBGH).

CC Commons, Penn College's newest dining unit on campus, has opened on the first floor of the Bush Campus Center. Designed to be an all-you-can-eat facility for students with board meal plans,italso has a cash price for declining-balance or cash customers. Menus at CC Commons change from lunch to dinner, and every day there is a different selection.

For the 2004-05 school year, Pennsylvania College of Technology has added to the list of foods it will purchase from area farms by awarding its ground-beef contract to a cooperative of farmers who raise grass-fed cattle.

Approaching the end of its first fiscal year, Pennsylvania College of Technology's Wildcat Plus Plan, which allows students and employees to pay for services both on and off campus by using their College ID cards, has been used for more than $700,000 in purchases.

Students at Pennsylvania College of Technology soon will be able to use their student identification cards to pay for purchases at dining units, the College Store, vending machines and laundry rooms on campus, as well as commercial restaurants nearby.

Patrons of Pennsylvania College of Technology's main dining hall, the Susquehanna Room, will find faster service and more menu flexibility this fall, following a $1.16 million renovation project at the facility this summer. The 13-week project represents the first major overhaul of the Susquehanna Room since it opened 16 years ago.