Dining Services Annual Pumkin Carving Contest

  

Where: Valley View Cafeteria
When: Monday October 28th until Halloween Day, Thursday October 31st.
Who: Students, Faculty, & Staff can enter.

Prizes: We will be selecting a 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place winner with other prizes just for entering....

First place prize is an High Sierra Backpack!
More info on other prizes soon!

Details:
Participants can pick up their pumpkins the week before. We will have the pumpkins un-carved on display in the Valley View Cafeteria and you can stop by any time to save yours.
The pumpkins will be on display the week of Halloween and Students, Faculty, & Staff will be encouraged as they pass through to help vote.
Voting: The winner will be decided through popularity this year. We will have voting boxes near the displayed pumpkins and the customers as well as any one passing by can help vote for their favorite.
Winners will be announced by @ 2 PM Halloween day, October 31st. Participants can retrieve their pumpkins at this time.

RULES:
•All entries are encouraged to be returned by Monday, October 28th due to the popularity voting style.
•We will be providing pumpkins but the participant may provide their own if they so choose.
•Pumpkin must include carving, other crafting techniques ok.
•No open flames are allowed in the Student Center so lit candles inside the pumpkins will not be permitted. •Electronic lighting via battery power ok.
•Any electronics to support the carved pumpkin must be battery powered. We are not accountable for providing power or lighting to your pumpkin.
•Have Fun!

New Year, New Friends

It is a new year here at the UVU.  Things are going pretty great here in the Valley View.  We have new employees, a new seating arrangement, and new merchandise for our new students.  As crazy as this day could have gone it is actually going remarkably well.  Here's hoping the whole semester stays this way!

Summer Blues

Wow, this summer has gone by so fast--one giant heat wave of fastness.  Guess that means it is time to jump back on the band wagon and get updating all of our sites, start spilling forth my thoughts on random topics and attempt to keep up with a few thousand some odd students.  Hope your summers were great, I hope you were able to go on a few small/large trips, visit with friends and family, and in general kick back before going back to the grind stone.  I know that this will not be true for all of you out there, for I see many of you each day studying and working--sometimes both at the same time! 

Here at Dining Services things have not quite calmed down this summer and now that August is here it does not look like it will ever happen.  In attempt to keep up and preemptively prepare for the decent of insanity the first week of school we are actually hiring.  So come apply, tell your friends, tell your family.  There are openings all over here in Dining Services.  You will want to go to the UVU Job Board and apply for job posting #054241.  We look forward to seeing your applications!

Summer Hours

Summer Hours for the Valley View will be as follows:

Monday-Friday
7:45 a.m. -3:00 p.m.

We will observe Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Pioneer Day but other than that will be open each day for your convenience. 

Our blog will be undergoing some much needed renovation this summer and we are working hard on getting all of our nutritional information for our line items up on the blog.

Make sure to check out our facebook, twitter, and instagram pages as well :  www.facebook/uvudining  #UVUDining or Dining@UVU

Warning No Clam Chowder!

Due to a lack of clams we will not be able to serve our traditional Thursday Clam Chowder.  I am sorry for the inconvenience.  We will be substituting a Creamy Cordon Bleu instead.

Easter is Coming

I don't know about you but I just realized that we have another holiday around the corner.  I decided to head to Pinterest for a little bit of 'pin'speration and decided to share some of what I found with you.  Click on the photos below to follow to the blogs on which these items are found.

 

Spring Break Blues

Ya know, other than keeping up with comments and emails I feel like I am really neglecting you guys.  That is if anyone is actually reading this.  Granted I figure we have about twenty plus visitors a day so numerically someone HAS to be reading something.  Just in case you were wondering, YES the Valley View is open today through Thursday.  For those of you here on campus the Valley View, Subway, Scoops, and the Vending machines are the bulk of your food options.  I am not sure if Jamba Juice will be open although I highly doubt it. 

Usually we look forward to these times of the year when we can catch up on projects, do some deep cleaning, and finish paperwork, but for some reason this year I find the silence unsettling.  I am almost hoping that we will get busy during lunch time like we did during Christmas just so I can see some of the friendly faces that stop by each day.  During this down time we will be working on menus' for the rest of the school year.  For this I turn to a myriad of sources, not only do we have a rotation of items we pull from but I also hit up a few Taste of Home cook books, Pinterest, and various food blogs.  Yes, if you had not noticed I am a bloggie.  I blog stalk these two in particular:

Pinch of Yum

Our Best Bites

 

Check 'em out sometime you will never regret it I promise.