New Pitt Dining executive chef breaks culinary glass ceiling
By Diana Velasquez, Senior Staff Writer
September 23, 2020
Danielle Gallaway is senior executive chef for Compass Group, Pitt’s new dining contractor, and is in charge of all the meals at all the dining halls on campus. She has also been in the food industry since she was 15.
Starship robots may return in future under new dining contractor
By India Krug, Staff Writer
September 23, 2020
Some of the Pitt community’s smallest pedestrians are missing this semester — the Starship Technologies food delivery robots. The robots, which became a part of campus culture, provided a meal option right outside students’ doors.
Students offer mixed reviews of new meal plans, food under Compass Group
By India Krug, For The Pitt News
September 16, 2020
Compass Group, Pitt’s new dining contractor, requires all first-year students living on-campus to have unlimited meal plans. Along with new meal plans, students shared their opinions on new food options, dining location changes and safety.
New dining contractor working to ‘re-envision’ dining at Pitt
By Rebecca Johnson, Senior Staff Writer
July 23, 2020
Pitt’s dining options are going to look decidedly different come fall amid the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the takeover by incoming dining contractor Compass Group.
Across the board: Meet this year’s student government
By Ashton Crawley, Senior Staff Writer
July 22, 2020
SGB — which consists of nine elected board members, as well as many appointed committee members — is the governing body of the roughly 18,000 undergraduate students at Pitt.
Pitt announces meal plan changes for fall
By Ashton Crawley, Senior Staff Writer
July 2, 2020
Pitt announced several updates to student meal plans in a Thursday email, as part of changes being implemented by incoming dining contractor Compass Group.
Sodexo to lay off more than 700 workers as contract expires
By Jon Moss, News Editor
April 12, 2020
Pitt’s outgoing dining contractor, Sodexo, will lay off hundreds of dining workers by the end of its contract on June 30, according to a filing with the state Department of Labor and Industry.
Pitt selects Compass Group as next dining contractor
By Jon Moss, News Editor
March 17, 2020
Pitt has selected Compass Group, a British multinational foodservice company, as its new single-source dining contractor beginning July 1.