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...Benjamin Walcott, assistant director of Harvard Dining Services, said that the last known incident of food poisoning on campus occurred more than 10 years ago in one of the Quad dining halls. Walcott credits the dining halls' practice of not reusing food for the low incidence of contamination...
...last food poisoning incident seems to me to have been 10 years ago or perhaps more," Walcott said. "Because our menu items are prepared for a specific meal and are not carried over [to the next meal], there is, in my opinion, less of an opportunity for a food-borne illness here than there might be in a restaurant," he said...
...houses were created as contained unified communities, according to Benjamin H. Walcott, the assistant director of Harvard Dining Services. "The House system isn't the most efficient way to feed the number of people we serve--it would be better to have four Unions--but Harvard was designed to be an experience, and the dining environment is an integral part of that experience," Walcott says...
Yale also uses the 21-meal system because of the similar set-up of their colleges, Walcott adds. Walcott says that the variable meal option would be cost-efficient at Harvard only if some of the dining halls closed. Such plans have been proposed, Walcott says, but the Corporation makes all decisions about such matters, not the Dining Service...
Operating the 21-meal service run $2036 for an academic year, as compared to $1635 for Brown's 20 meals and $1736 for Penn's 15 meals. "You have to look at how many meals are available for that cost," Walcott says. "You also may or may not be aware that although entitled to 21 meals, the average student eats 14, and the cost is adjusted to that...