The new dining facility is nearly three times the size as its predecessor. (Karin Higgins/UC Davis photo)
Fast Facts About the New Segundo DC
By the numbers:
Size: 43,205 square feet (Old facility: 15,034 square feet)
Seating capacity: 825 (Old facility: 350)
Expected service capacity: 1,600 students; however, due to the delay in the construction of Tercero Dining Commons, Segundo serves 1,600 Segundo and 1,400 Tercero residents, with an added 600 Cuarto visitors each day and another 100 UC Davis staff each weekday.
Average meals served each meal period: 2,200
Number of meals served at UC Davis dining facilities each year: 1.5 million
By the dollars:
Building cost: $22.8 million, including $5 million in equipment.
Cost for a yearly student meal plan: $2,200 to $2,800, averaging to $6.10 a meal.
Prices for the public: $7 for breakfast, $7.50 for lunch, $9.75 dinner, and $7.25 for late night, with a 25 percent discount for staff and faculty.
Food Facts (from the Segundo Culinary Support Center that services all three residence dining halls):
Food prepared in a day: 500 pounds of pasta, 200 pounds of meat and 150 pounds of cheese.
Size of kettles: 100 gallons for soups, sauces, mashed potatoes, gravy and salsa.
Hoist capacity: Can lift colanders of up to 300 pounds of pasta or lower up to 1,000 pounds of meat into hot-water cook tank
Chilling technology: Blast chiller cools food from 140 degrees to below 40 degrees in 30 minutes, a process which used to take four hours.
Food storage: Kept at a frigid 30 degrees to prevent bacterial growth. Soups and sauces are kept fresh at this temperature for up to 14 days.
Other facts:
Opened: June 26, 2005
Architect: Sasaki Associates
General contractor: Howard S. Wright.
Contractor history: Sodexho has been the food contractor for UC Davis since 1998 but has roots to 1971. (Service Systems was given the UC Davis food contract in 1971 and then was bought out by Marriott Corp. in the mid-1980s. In 1998, Sodexho merged with Marriott Corp., which was then bought out by Sodexho in 2001.)
Number of college-contracted companies who deliver food services nationwide: Three — ARAMARK, Chartwells and Sodexho.