{"id":8863,"date":"2020-07-14T12:22:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T12:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/20\/campus-dining-will-be-very-different\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:34:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:34:03","slug":"campus-dining-will-be-very-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/campus-dining-will-be-very-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus dining will be very different"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Furman students return to campus August 18, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/furman-focused\/\">a set of procedures and practices<\/a> will be deployed for maintaining the health and safety of the entire campus community. Becky Vuksta, director of auxiliary services at Furman, spoke to<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/13\/dining\/college-food-coronavirus.html\">The New York Times<\/a> <\/strong>about plans for dining services. Working with Furman&#8217;s food service provider Bon App\u00e9tit and facility services, Vuksta is retooling the dining hall for social distancing, adding new grab-and-go meal stations and setting up a pop-up restaurant outside Duke Library that will serve street food from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The Times also spoke to Furman Asian studies major Ethan Hodge &#8217;21, one of several dozen Furman students who remained on campus after the pandemic forced most of the university&#8217;s 2,700 students to return home. The story was also picked up by the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/dining\/table-talkers\/sns-nyt-campus-dining-will-be-different-20200715-cqgho4m3xfd6xg4qdlfpqx7hx4-story.html\">Chicago Tribune<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/food-drink\/table-talkers\/sns-nyt-campus-dining-will-be-different-20200715-cqgho4m3xfd6xg4qdlfpqx7hx4-story.html\"><strong>The Baltimore Sun<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Furman students return to campus August 18, a set of procedures and practices will be deployed for maintaining the health and safety of the entire campus community. Becky Vuksta, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,26,56,6,35,27],"tags":[351,255,352,353,256],"class_list":["post-8863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-administrative","category-asian-studies","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news","category-student-life","tag-bon-appetit-management-company","tag-covid-19","tag-dining-services","tag-pop-up-restaurant","tag-social-distancing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}