2008 Woodie Awards
Fair trade coffee available on campus
Meghan Hurley
Issue date: 3/15/07 Section: News
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Dining Services will now offer fair trade coffee on a daily basis in Jazzman's Café. The demand for new Fair Trade Organic flavor has increased 2000 percent in the past two months on campus, prompting the daily addition of the coffee.
"It's good that we can make this little change that can benefit a lot of people,"
Chris Cantwell, a freshman history major, said.
The decision came from Drew Niemann, the general manager of dining services, because he saw that students wanted it.
"What we decided to do is to incorporate Fair trade into not just our regular rotation of featured coffees, but in addition to make sure that if it is not offered daily, it's pretty darn close," Niemann said.
The issue now is keeping a daily supply. When the coffee first premiered, Jazzman's went through a whole case in one day.
"It was a specialty item, one that you would have to buy from a specialty purveyor," Niemann said, "But the demand has grown so much that it is going to become an item that's carried by our prime distributor."
Switching from a secondary to a primary distributor for the coffee will assure that there is a daily supply on campus. Currently there are 16 cases on backorder for Jazzman's.
"We have had to increase orders threefold to make up for the backorders - the demand is out there and he [the supplier] is just trying to meet it," Chris Metell, the retail manager of Jazzman's, said.
The demand increase is not only at Cabrini, and many other school with Sodexho accounts are requesting the fair trade coffee as well. According to Metell, there are 92 other Sodexho accounts that are requesting fair trade coffee.
"We are in the service industry and we need to make sure we are providing everyone with the things they need and want." Niemann said. "With the way that it's selling, as long as that last, we will continue to offer it."
"I didn't even know, but now I think it's great," junior elementary and early childhood education major Nicole Morgan said. "It shows that they care about what people on campus want."
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"It's good that we can make this little change that can benefit a lot of people,"
Chris Cantwell, a freshman history major, said.
The decision came from Drew Niemann, the general manager of dining services, because he saw that students wanted it.
"What we decided to do is to incorporate Fair trade into not just our regular rotation of featured coffees, but in addition to make sure that if it is not offered daily, it's pretty darn close," Niemann said.
The issue now is keeping a daily supply. When the coffee first premiered, Jazzman's went through a whole case in one day.
"It was a specialty item, one that you would have to buy from a specialty purveyor," Niemann said, "But the demand has grown so much that it is going to become an item that's carried by our prime distributor."
Switching from a secondary to a primary distributor for the coffee will assure that there is a daily supply on campus. Currently there are 16 cases on backorder for Jazzman's.
"We have had to increase orders threefold to make up for the backorders - the demand is out there and he [the supplier] is just trying to meet it," Chris Metell, the retail manager of Jazzman's, said.
The demand increase is not only at Cabrini, and many other school with Sodexho accounts are requesting the fair trade coffee as well. According to Metell, there are 92 other Sodexho accounts that are requesting fair trade coffee.
"We are in the service industry and we need to make sure we are providing everyone with the things they need and want." Niemann said. "With the way that it's selling, as long as that last, we will continue to offer it."
"I didn't even know, but now I think it's great," junior elementary and early childhood education major Nicole Morgan said. "It shows that they care about what people on campus want."
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