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UO Dining by the numbers
Multiple times a day, thousands of hungry Ducks descend on UO dining halls, looking for nourishment between classes, sports and extracurriculars. Feeding them all requires operating at a totally different scale than a home kitchen. Read on for some numbers that capture what it takes to make UO’s dining services operation tick.
Feeding the flock
16,000
Meals served per day
1,000
Pieces of pastry created at 4 am every morning, all hand-shaped
36,000
Small duck and 28,000 big duck cookies baked per year
14
Venues
Staffed up
800
Student employees learning leadership, culinary techniques, teamwork and business skills
200
Classified staff keeping students fed
100%
Informative Data Values
Ducks dine sustainably
2.9 million
Estimated number of items saved from the landfill in 2023 by transitioning to reusable serviceware
17%
Proportion of food (by cost) sourced from regional suppliers
