Recently there has been a lot of talk about having Food Trucks on the BU campus. This is an issue that students, administrators and even elected officials have debated for years; we at Dining Services feel we should comment on this issue since it will in fact impact our business on campus and how the students are served. First and foremost we want to make it clear that this is just an exploratory project, but we can say to you for the first time, that we have outlined a plan to bring Food Trucks to the Boston University Campus, and that plan has been accepted!!!
It’s something we have been working on for over 2 years now, and finally after last week’s closed-door hearing at the capital everything was approved. The map above illustrates the route that the Food Truck will take. You will see that the Food Truck will actually be the BU Shuttle; we will just alternate carrying passengers and carrying food. It’s quite simple really; here is how it will work as stipulated in our agreement with the city of Boston: The BU Shuttle will leave the Medical Campus for the first run of the day and make the usually stops along the way through campus and then stop at Babcock Street. There they will discharge any passengers and proceed to load up the BU Food Truck with supplies from the Fresh Food Co. at West Campus’ kitchen. The menu will be very Spartan, plain deli meat sandwiches, bags of chips, bottled beverages, packaged cookies and a duck confit with a saffron dill sauce that will only be available between the SFA stop and Warren Towers stop. The BU Food Truck will then go up campus and make its way to Danielson Hall, here it will stop, just for a second and then honk its horn as it drives away leaving the Danielson residents to walk the 6 miles to campus! It will make one pass down Comm. ave and stop back at the Fresh Food Co. at West, here it will unload the supplies, hose down t
he inside of the bus, re-install the seats, take out the exhaust fans, and replace all the windows. Once that is complete it will proceed to pick up passengers at the Medical School campus only and take them to Huntington Ave where it will drop them off and return back to the shop for its daily maintenance inspection which is a required law by the city of Boston.
The BU Food Truck will accept Dining points only. We will however entertain any trades you may want to make but only and we repeat only for original Darth Maul figurines, no knock offs accepted! We hope you will take part in our inaugural run that will take place on Sunday April 3rd at 3:30am between Deerfield Street and Cummington Street and there will be no free giveaways.
We feel after the exhausting research we’ve done and the help the city of Boston has given us these are the best laid plans we could come up with. We want you to enjoy the new BU Food Truck and to give us as little feedback as possible on it. And finally… April Fools! We love You!
