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At Restaurant Associates’ 181 Café, a corporate account in Cambridge, Mass., appealing meals to go are a sign of the times. Here, the fresh, zesty and on-trend Middle Eastern spice, za’atar, gives chicken salad a cool new vibe.
Also at RA’s 181 Café, this bowl incorporates several big food trends of 2020: grab-and-go cuisine, meals in a bowl and plant-based eating.
Plant-based is great, but for some customers, a beefy burger is just what the doctor ordered in these trying times, as seen here on Texas Tech’s takeout menu. This illustrates another dominating food trend of this year: comfort food.
Accompanied by fresh guac, this is another to-go option from Texas Tech.
A plant-forward (and comfort classic!) menu item, this eggplant Parm at Penn State University is ready to travel.
Sodexo’s Simply To Go program, seen here at Brandeis University, offers sweet and savory snacks, like these cheese and pepperoni cups.
At Michigan State University, the dining team has created many on-the-go meals, including this sophisticated snack box of skewers with kalamata olives, marinated artichoke hearts, fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, basil, pesto and Parmesan.
With grains, greens and the flavors of New York-style halal chicken, this bowl at Michigan State University is super portable and healthy, too. Michigan State has found success with “take, heat and eat” meals as well.
Also at Michigan State, these Asian grab-and-go entrees are just the thing to spice up the takeout routine.
Poke bowls have risen to the top of menu items in terms of higher-ed accounts and essential manufacturing plants where American Dining Creations (ADC) makes the food.
As salad bars became a casualty of the ongoing pandemic, operators have gotten creative and we’ve seen the return of chef-composed salads, like these, offered by Restaurant Associates at corporate accounts.
At Central Washington University (CWU), composed salads are a vibrant part of the Fresh Bar concept.
Another example of a refreshing summer salad at CWU’s Fresh Bar.
This hearty vegan salad is composed and ready to go by Sodexo at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, N.Y.
The bright, herbal presence of chimichurri sauce brings global flavor to these steaks at the University of North Texas.
Wellness-focused grab and go is ramping up at Duke University, as the dining team gets ready to welcome (some) students back to campus this fall.
