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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Frontera Fresco in Norris University Center. The restaurant closed its doors last Friday as the University prepares for a food provider transition.

Frontera closed, new retail dining options to come

June 14, 2018

Frontera Fresco served its final meal to the Northwestern community last Friday as dining services prepares for an upcoming transition to a new food service provider. The Mexican-inspired restaurant...

Students eat at a Foster-Walker Complex dining hall. Chartwells Higher Education, which will replace some dining operations in the fall, said it will not participate in the federal E-Verify program.

New food service provider says it won’t use federal E-Verify program

May 24, 2018

A subsidiary of Compass Group North America said it will not participate in the E-Verify program when it takes over Northwestern food service operations in the fall. Michael Bennett, a district manager...

Karl Behrens, chief operations officer of the Compass Group project division, speaks at ASG Senate on Wednesday. Behrens presented floor plans and sketches for dining hall renovations.

Compass presents food service plan, dining hall renovations at ASG Senate

May 24, 2018

Employees of Compass Group North America, Northwestern’s new food service provider, presented Wednesday their vision for dining halls and other spaces to Associated Student Government Senate. Karl...

Northwestern’s Sodexo and Aramark employees march in April to present a petition asking the companies to help with the transition to Compass Group North America. A petition calling for Compass Group to improve treatment of service workers has received over 2,000 signatures since it was posted at the end of January.

Compass, service workers’ union reach agreement on dining transition

May 9, 2018

Northwestern’s new food provider and the union representing the University’s service workers have reached an agreement ahead of the upcoming dining transition, dispelling some uncertainty about job...

Director of Social Justice Education Robert Brown speaks at Foster-Walker Complex. Brown facilitated conversation at the community dialogue, a quarterly event in which administrators address student questions.

Dining transition, tuition increase, Latinx Asian American Collective discussed at community dialogue

April 30, 2018

Students, faculty and administrators discussed the University’s new dining contract, tuition increases and the Latinx Asian American Collective, among other topics, at a community dialogue in Foster-Walker...

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