{"id":83502,"date":"2019-04-29T09:45:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T14:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=83502"},"modified":"2019-04-29T09:45:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T14:45:16","slug":"fireside-chat-april-29-2019-new-food-service-vendor-sodexo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2019\/04\/fireside-chat-april-29-2019-new-food-service-vendor-sodexo\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireside Chat &#8211; April 29, 2019 &#8211; New Food Service Vendor, Sodexo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joining President LaForge is Jamie Rutledge, vice president for finance and administration.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TAvN4TMPGHc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->What\u2019s the way to a college student\u2019s heart? Food. We recently announced the transition to a new food service vendor, Sodexo. And, with that comes a full-service Chick-fil-A, a Firehouse Subs shop, and a Starbucks \u2014 all to be located in the student union. Renovations will take place this summer, will cost about $2 million, and should be complete in time for the fall semester. Here are some other numbers to munch on about these delicious developments:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Chick-fil-A reported more than $10 billion in revenue in 2018.<br \/>\n\u2022In 2017, Firehouse Subs generated sales of more than $715 million in the United States.<br \/>\n\u2022There are 29,865 Starbucks in the world.<br \/>\n\u2022Starbucks\u2019 annual revenue for fiscal year 2018 reached $24.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In other news on campus, final exams are this week, and Spring Commencement will take place on Friday, May 3 at the Bologna Performing Arts Center. There will be two ceremonies. The 10 a.m. ceremony will feature all graduate students, as well as undergraduate students from the Robert E. Smith School of Nursing, and the College of Business and Aviation. The 2 p.m. ceremony will recognize undergraduates from the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Education and Human Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>To keep up with all of our news, events and activities, please visit our website at deltastate.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining President LaForge is Jamie Rutledge, vice president for finance and administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":554,"featured_media":79477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-president"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83503,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83502\/revisions\/83503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}