2020-21 Unit Plan
Dining Services

Mission Statement

To provide relatively quick, convenient, nutritional, high quality, reasonably priced food products served in a friendly, pleasant customer-centered atmosphere to Butte College students, faculty, staff and the general public.

Program Description

Dining Services enjoys a strong reputation among students, faculty and staff.  We provide the District with a quality product at a fair price in five separate locations:  Main Campus dining, Wired Caf�, Roadrunner Outpost, the Coffee Stop in the Campus Center lounge, and Chico Center Caf�.  Additionally, our catering services operation continues to enhance its reputation of excellence, and we also maintain campus vending services and gymnasium concessions.

The staff is professional, well-trained, safety certified, and dedicated to making Dining Services the type of operation of which Butte College can be proud.
 
Overall, Dining Services is meeting its mission to the campus.

Administrative Unit Outcomes (AUOs):  The performance standards to be met include operating as efficiently as possible to become financially independent.

Assessment Method:  The assessment method used to evaluate whether or not the AUOs are being met is the end of the year financial statement as well as the feedback from the biannual Administration Customer Satisfaction Survey.

Dining Services offers student employment opportunities to Butte students that maintain a minimum of 6 units. Working in a face paced, team environment helps prepare our students for future employment.

Other Items:  n/a


Student Learning/Administrative Unit Outcomes


        

Standards/Goals for Student Achievement (Instruction Departments)


        

Standards/Goals for Student Achievement (All Other Departments)


        

Strategic Direction


        

Program Review

Dining Services does Administrative Program Review on an annual basis through the unit planning process.


Department Goals


        

Future Development Strategies

Strategy 1 - Increase professional development

Achieve high staff morale


Initiatives
  • Enhancing a Culture of Completion and Goal Achievement
  • Supporting Student, Faculty and Staff Success

Supporting Rationale

Increase cross training so students are able to support not only their own area of responsibility but support fellow employees thus enhancing the customer experience. This will also help create self-worth in the work place giving our students the confidence they need when they move on to the next job or career.


Supporting Rationale Alignment
Supports the College's Strategic Direction and Priorities: No
Supports Program Review Recommendations: No
Supports Course level SLOs: Yes
Supports PLOs: No
Supports ILO - Think Critically: No
Supports ILO - Communicate Competently: No
Supports ILO - Engage Collaboratively: No
Supports ILO - Work Effectively: No
Supports Meeting Vision for Success Goal - Credentials: No
Supports Meeting Vision for Success Goal - Transfer: No
Supports Meeting Vision for Success Goal - Time to Degree: No
Supports Meeting Vision for Success Goal - Employment in field of Study: No
Supports Meeting Vision for Success Goal - Reducing Equity Gaps: No

Strategy 2 - Decrease energy usage

Source more local, healthy and sustainable food products


Initiatives
  • Modeling Sustainability
  • Maximizing Resources to Support Student Learning

Supporting Rationale

By sourcing more local and sustainable foods we can help reduce our carbon footprint while meeting the needs of the campus community.

 


Supporting Rationale Alignment
Supports the College's Strategic Direction and Priorities: No
Supports Program Review Recommendations: No
Supports Course level SLOs: No
Supports PLOs: No
Supports ILO - Think Critically: No
Supports ILO - Communicate Competently: No
Supports ILO - Engage Collaboratively: No
Supports ILO - Work Effectively: No
Supports Meeting Vision for Success Goal - Credentials: No
Supports Meeting Vision for Success Goal - Transfer: No
Supports Meeting Vision for Success Goal - Time to Degree: No
Supports Meeting Vision for Success Goal - Employment in field of Study: No
Supports Meeting Vision for Success Goal - Reducing Equity Gaps: No

Strategy 3 - Increase dining options

Create more options for our campus community, thus increasing choices as well as sales.


Initiatives
  • Supporting Student, Faculty and Staff Success

Supporting Rationale

We have a very captive audiance being a commuter campus. By offering more variety to our staff and students we give them greater choices and stronger realtionships; this will in turn increase dining sales. 


Supporting Rationale Alignment
Supports the College's Strategic Direction and Priorities: No
Supports Program Review Recommendations: No
Supports Course level SLOs: No
Supports PLOs: No
Supports ILO - Think Critically: No
Supports ILO - Communicate Competently: No
Supports ILO - Engage Collaboratively: No
Supports ILO - Work Effectively: No
Supports Meeting Vision for Success Goal - Credentials: No
Supports Meeting Vision for Success Goal - Transfer: No
Supports Meeting Vision for Success Goal - Time to Degree: No
Supports Meeting Vision for Success Goal - Employment in field of Study: No
Supports Meeting Vision for Success Goal - Reducing Equity Gaps: No

Strategy 4 - Maximize student labor

Be vigilant in keeping student labor at a resonable level.


Initiatives
  • Supporting Student, Faculty and Staff Success
  • Maximizing Resources to Support Student Learning

Supporting Rationale

One of the only controllable costs available to Dining Services is student labor.  It is imperative to keep it at its lowest level without sacraficing customer service. With the increase of minimum wage we must maximize each student labor hour. We must continue to source a more affordable and efficient way of doing business. Provide cross training to students to encourage better team work. This also will teach student multi-tasking necessary for their future endeavors. 


Supporting Rationale Alignment
Supports the College's Strategic Direction and Priorities: No
Supports Program Review Recommendations: No
Supports Course level SLOs: No
Supports PLOs: No
Supports ILO - Think Critically: No
Supports ILO - Communicate Competently: No
Supports ILO - Engage Collaboratively: No
Supports ILO - Work Effectively: No
Supports Meeting Vision for Success Goal - Credentials: No
Supports Meeting Vision for Success Goal - Transfer: No
Supports Meeting Vision for Success Goal - Time to Degree: No
Supports Meeting Vision for Success Goal - Employment in field of Study: No
Supports Meeting Vision for Success Goal - Reducing Equity Gaps: No

Strategy 5 - Increase Healthy dining options

Increase healthy options; increase options at lower cost to our customer.


Initiatives
  • Modeling Sustainability
  • Supporting Student, Faculty and Staff Success
  • Maximizing Resources to Support Student Learning

Supporting Rationale

Increase offerings to include healthy, vegetarian & vegan options while maintaining reasonable market prices.  Increase Grab n Go items at a lower cost to our customer. Continue to source more local products.  Utilize customer feedback to increase our selections.  It is imperative that the business does all it can to achieve customer satisfaction to ensure success.


Supporting Rationale Alignment
Supports the College's Strategic Direction and Priorities: No
Supports Program Review Recommendations: No
Supports Course level SLOs: No
Supports PLOs: No
Supports ILO - Think Critically: No
Supports ILO - Communicate Competently: No
Supports ILO - Engage Collaboratively: No
Supports ILO - Work Effectively: No
Supports Meeting Vision for Success Goal - Credentials: No
Supports Meeting Vision for Success Goal - Transfer: No
Supports Meeting Vision for Success Goal - Time to Degree: No
Supports Meeting Vision for Success Goal - Employment in field of Study: No
Supports Meeting Vision for Success Goal - Reducing Equity Gaps: No

Requested Non-Financial Resources

Dining Services has no non-financial requests

Current Financial Resources

As an entity of Auxiliary Services, Dining Services is a self-supporting operation.  We endeavor to meet all of our own financial obligations including employee salaries and benefits. Over the past couple years Dining Services has become finacially independent of the Bookstore. Though revenue in Dining Services has increased steadily over the past few years, it appears that sales growth will begin to slow as the student population shrinks and minimum wage rises.  We will continue to source new potential revenue streams while operating as efficiently as possible. Because external funding is not an option Dining Services will begin talks of a new dining location located at teh gym concessions or possibly a Taco Truck that would be owned and operated by BC Dining Services.

Augmentation Requests

Original Priority Program, Unit, Area Resource Type Account Number Object Code One Time Augment Ongoing Augment
Description Supporting Rationale Potential Alternative Funding Sources Prioritization Criteria
1 Dining Services Equipment 52-303160-1-694000 56410 $13,000.00 $0.00
Micros POS System Our current system is non PCI compliant and simply getting old. The OS is out of date at the work stations and no longer supported by Microsoft
  • Maintaining ongoing operations at current levels (excludes grants)
  • Improving Processes: a. Data and Reporting; b. Internal Communications
8/2/23