Our Initiatives

Your Saint Rose Hospitality Services team is dedicated to sustainability. We know we can work together to make a positive impact right here at the College of Saint Rose. In addition to the many initiatives we take on as a College, we have implemented the following programs specific to the Hospitality Services department.

Local Suppliers

We work hard to get as many local ingredients as possible. Our professionally-trained chefs write our menus to take advantage of the fresh fruits and vegetables that are naturally in season. We partner with many local distributors to bring local products to our campus.  Sun Coffee Roasters, Best of Vermont, Byrne Dairy, Gillette, Mento Produce and Purdy & Sons are just a few of them that support us.

Recycling

Bottles, cans, glass, cardboard, coffee grounds and fryer oil.

Cage Free Eggs 

100% cage-free shell eggs are served everywhere on campus.

Trayless 

To help reduce waste we are trayless at all of our all-you-care-to-eat dining locations.

Local Suppliers 

We work hard to get as many local ingredients as possible. Our professionally-trained chefs write our menus to take advantage of the fresh fruits and vegetables that are naturally in season. We partner with many local distributors to bring you local products as well.

Xprss Nap 

XPressnap dispensers are another solution to reducing energy and waste. They use 30% less paper than traditional napkin dispensing mechanisms. The great thing about these dispensers is that they help the environment while helping to keep costs down. The napkins are made of 100% recycled paper and the dispenser will encourage customers to take (and waste) less napkins. Energy is saved because less power is used to recycle paper products than to create them from virgin material. According to Xpressnap, enough is saved through using recycled napkins to power 600 American homes for an entire year! More than half a million gallons of oil were saved ‘ 38 tanker trucks worth ‘ and 41 tons of pollutants were kept out of the environment. Using recycled napkins diverted 4,131 cubic yards of paper from landfills. This is enough to cover a football field with a stack of paper two and a half feet deep.