Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	45.51
Liaison	Mat Thijssen
Submission Date	Nov. 6, 2018
Executive Letter	Download

STARS v2.1

University of Waterloo
OP-7: Food and Beverage Purchasing

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	0.10 / 6.00	Annette Carroll Financial Coordinator Food Services

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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:

1.80

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”):

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):

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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):

Waterloo’s Food Services has been making efforts to procure sustainably-sourced food. In particular, it has been pursuing the following: o Fish/Seafood: Preference for MSC Certified or Sea Choice Certified seafood o Coffee/Tea: 100% of all coffee served is fair trade certified, and at least 3 fair trade teas are available in all locations that serve teas o Produce: Waterloo attempts to purchase seasonal, local produce wherever possible, including through the Elmira Produce Auction Cooperative and through vendors that provide Foodland Ontario produce o Meat, poultry, eggs, dairy: Where possible, Food Services sources local options

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):

STARS Food and Beverage Inventory v2.1.3.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):

The inventory is based on purchase receipts across all Food Services departments for the 2017 calendar year. It does not use representative samples. Items have been coded into the purchasing orders throughout the year to allow extraction for local, certified, and fairtrade products.

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	Yes	No
Franchises (e.g. national or global brands)	Yes	No
Convenience stores	Yes	No
Vending services	Yes	No
Concessions	No	No

Optional Fields

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

Local products are included in the above inventory of suppliers, but the university is not able to verify with each individual farm through its distribution network that the farmer operates below the $50 million market sales cap and thus does not include these as Local and Community-Based. Waterloo has substantial partnerships with local vendors and has worked with its major distributors to source local products, but it is simply unable to gather data on market capitalization. However, approximately 20.8% of all Food Services purchases are from local sources as per the local aspect of the STARS criteria.

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

20.80

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

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Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

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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.