Nearly six years after shaking up a longtime arrangement for management of its concession stands, the University of Wisconsin athletic department is doing the same with the rest of its food and beverage operation.
The athletic department currently runs its own catering department to prepare and serve daily athlete meals and food and drinks in premium areas at events. It employs 30 full-time staff members in addition to part-time workers and students in its food and beverage shop.
But those employees face changes or moves to other jobs on campus as UW outsources its entire food-service business and puts it with one vendor.