Overall Rating	Platinum - expired
Overall Score	85.05
Liaison	Lisa Kilgore
Submission Date	March 5, 2020
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STARS v2.1

Cornell University
OP-7: Food and Beverage Purchasing

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	0.54 / 6.00	Daniel Dosztan Purchasing Manager SAS Business Service Center

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This credit requires:

A completed STARS Food and Beverage Purchasing Inventory,
An itemized inventory based on output from the Real Food Calculator, or
An alternative inventory that includes for each product:

Product vendor
Product label/brand
Product description
The category in which the product qualifies (Third Party Verified or Local & Community Based)
Information justifying inclusion: the standards met if the product is third party verified; ownership, size, distance, production methods for Local & Community Based products

Part 1

Third Party Verified and Community Based Products

Percentage of dining services food and beverage expenditures on products that are third party verified under one or more recognized food and beverage sustainability standards or Local & Community-Based:

10.12

Part 2

Animal Products

Does the institution wish to pursue Part 2 of this credit (expenditures on conventional animal products)? (If data is not available, respond “No”):

Yes

Percentage of total dining services food and beverage expenditures on conventional animal products (meat, poultry, fish/seafood, eggs, and dairy products that do NOT qualify in either the Third Party Verified or Local & Community-Based category):

32.63

Food and Beverage Purchasing Inventory

Required if pursuing either part of the credit:

A brief description of the sustainable food and beverage purchasing program, including how the sustainability impacts of products in specific categories are addressed (e.g. meat, poultry, fish/seafood, eggs, dairy, produce, tea/coffee):

Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station Farms provide all of our fresh potatoes, winter squash and corn in season and extended into January; We purchase local and regional fresh produce (~27%), canned tomato products are from local producers; 90% of dairy purchases are local (Cornell and other local producers) and Cornell and NY State apples when possible; we purchase some Marine Stewardship Council certified fish for 2 of our big dining units. The local beef program uses local beef burgers in two large retail units. The local producing company, Ithaca Bakery, which provides baked goods including bagels, breads, cakes, and cookies is local and community based, satisfying the three criteria (ownership, size, and distance) according to a representative from the bakery. Cotner Farms, which supplies eggs to campus, is a small family-owned business in Pennsylvania that is recognized for feeding its hens premium, locally grown feed, and practicing good soil conservation.

An inventory of the institution’s sustainable food and beverage purchases that includes for each product: the description/type; label, brand or producer; and the category in which it is being counted and/or a description of its sustainability attribute(s):

Updated_2020-06-04-STARS_Food_and_Beverage_Inventory_v4.xlsx

A brief description of the methodology used to conduct the inventory, including the timeframe and how representative samples accounted for seasonal variation (if applicable):

We have a food database that all of our orders and receipts are entered into. In this system each item that we buy it set up and flagged with unique identifiers such as local/regional. At any given time we can generate a report that will identify how much of a flagged item we have received for any time period.

If uploading output from the Real Food Calculator, provide:

Percentage of total dining services expenditures on Real Food A (0-100):

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Percentage of total dining services expenditures on Real Food B (0-100):

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Required if pursuing either part of the credit:

Which of the following food service providers are present on campus and included in the total food and beverage expenditure figures?:

	Present?	Included?
Dining operations and catering services operated by the institution	Yes	Yes
Dining operations and catering services operated by a contractor	No	No
Student-run food/catering services	No	No
Franchises (e.g. national or global brands)	No	No
Convenience stores	Yes	Yes
Vending services	Yes	No
Concessions	Yes	Yes

Optional Fields

A brief description of purchased food and beverage products that have other sustainability attributes not recognized above :

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Additional percentage of dining services food and beverage expenditures on conventional products with other sustainability attributes not recognized above (0-100) :

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The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:

http://living.sas.cornell.edu/dine/whoweare/sustainability/index.cfm

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

~27% of total FRESH produce food expenditures are grown and/or processed within 250 miles of Cornell University or third-party certified. ~9% of all food purchases, including the 27% fresh produce, are considered local/Regional of 150/250 mile radius with 50% of the raw materials produced within that range.

The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.