Student Housing and Dining Services Content

Campus Serves Up Award-Winning Response to Cook Shortage

Julia Ann Easley — August 27, 2024 - 8:00am

Roger Thompson clapped his hands together. “You’ve got two hours to open. Let’s get to it.”

“Yes, Chef!” Andrea Rivera replied. She turned to a class visitor and whispered: “That’s so they know we heard them, and it’s fun too.”

And with that, Rivera and five other food service workers left their classroom space at dining tables in Latitude and headed toward the dining facility’s kitchen on their way to becoming cooks at 69��.

Survey: Davis Apartment Vacancy Rate Improves Substantially

Julia Ann Easley — February 01, 2024 - 10:30am

Spurred by the construction of hundreds of new apartment units on the 69�� campus, the apartment vacancy rate in the city of Davis has increased substantially, while monthly rents have increased more modestly.

A survey report released today (Feb. 1) shows a 3.0% blended vacancy rate — including apartments leased by the unit and by the bed — which is significantly higher than the 0.5% rate for fall 2022. Rents increased by a combined average of 1.8%.

Alum Martin Yan Shares Cooking Tips, Diverse Flavors

Cody Kitaura — January 30, 2024 - 12:50pm

When Martin Yan arrived in Davis as an international student in 1969, the minimum wage in California was just $1.65, but he discovered teaching a 69�� extension course on Chinese cooking could yield $18 an hour. He said he implored the director: “Give me a chance to teach a course.”

Martin Yan To Be Guest Chef on Campus

Julia Ann Easley — January 23, 2024 - 9:00am

Celebrity chef and 69�� alum Martin Yan will present cooking demonstrations, mingle with diners at Latitude Restaurant and more during a campus visit this week.

He is the second guest chef to share inspiration and recipes with campus chefs as they diversify the menus in residential dining facilities.

His activities at Latitude on Friday include:

Fall Brings New Dining Options

Shreya Kumar — October 17, 2023 - 10:56am

69�� offers new dining options this fall with a new restaurant, menu items and ways to keep up to date.

69�� Marks Opening of Housing With 1,500 Beds

Julia Ann Easley — August 16, 2023 - 1:00pm

69�� celebrated the opening of its new Orchard Park neighborhood with 1,500 beds in apartments.

Food Truck Offers Free Meals to Students in Need

Julia Ann Easley — April 18, 2023 - 9:30am

Sophomore Alexandra S. took it all in, her face beaming: A food truck on her campus was offering meals for free or whatever students wanted to pay.

WHEN AND WHERE

AggieEats is open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays when classes are held, and rotates among four locations: East Quad, Student Health and Wellness Center, Storer Hall and West Village.

Survey: Davis Apartment Vacancy Rate Down, Rents Up

Julia Ann Easley — January 31, 2023 - 10:30am

A 69�� survey finds the fall 2022 apartment vacancy rate in the city of Davis has decreased and rents have increased since the previous year.

Graduation Speaker Empowered by Freshman Spirit

Julia Ann Easley — December 06, 2022 - 9:32am

Kaitlin “Kat” Raymond ’22 will walk about 1,000 graduating students back to freshman year when she speaks at fall commencement and a spring makeup commencement this Saturday (Dec. 10).

Where to Eat: Fall Quarter Edition

Dave Jones — September 20, 2022 - 10:43am

Staff and faculty are welcome, as always, at campus dining commons, which are all open as of today (Sept. 20). But come tomorrow, our food and beverage options will multiply, in campus-run facilities and the ASUCD Coffee House, and from a half-dozen food trucks. Plus, what’s the news about napkins? See the answer in the box below.

Here are the openings set for Wednesday (Sept. 21) in campus-run facilities: