Engaging Students Through Food

Working with our partner schools to support in bringing unique student experiences to life.

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Activate your Taste

Our retail activation cart program, Activate Your Taste, increases guest participation through the surprise and delight of pop-up stations around the campus. The cart program offers our campus communities new and adventurous menu offerings, with the goal of enhancing the overall dining experience for students.

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High Table Lunches

High Table Lunches are bespoke events that allow for experiential learning in a formal communal setting. Often our High Table Lunches will be collaboratively designed to align academia with culinary. We regularly these events as we recognize the positive impact they have on students and the campus community.

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Teaching Kitchens

A fun interactive culinary classroom for students to explore food, nutrition literacy, and enhance their cooking skills to help positively impact food choices and experiences. These events provide students the opportunity to learn about powerful ingredients to help nourish them through their studies, and give them tangible life-skills.

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Student Feedback

We know that feedback is one of the most important elements of supporting the student experience. Building an engaged community starts with listening, learning and connecting with students to better understand their individual needs and desires.

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Community Gardens

On campus community gardens serve as a teaching space for to engage the school community and teach students about seeds, planting, growing and harvesting. Increasing local, organic food availability for students, community gardens use a network of lightweight, semi-hydroponic containers and a drip irrigation system to grow around 500lbs of vegetables each season.

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Stop Food Waste Day

Stop Food Waste Day is a our global
initiative to increase awareness and educate guests and staff on waste reduction and waste diversion. Our goal is to draw attention to the global food waste problem as well as develop and share creative and impactful solutions.


Chartwells Canada acknowledges that Compass Group Canada’s main office building is located on traditional, unceded and unsurrendered
territories of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe, Attiwonderonk and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation peoples. Our coast-to-coast work expands across Turtle Island. We are committed to working in collaboration with and in honour of our Indigenous populations towards learning, unlearning, empowering, and shaping a better future for every Canadian in the spirit of Reconciliation.