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Gourmet Dining is the premier food service company serving New Jersey. As New Jersey’s largest privately owned regional dining service company, Gourmet Dining operates on-site food service management for educational, corporate and healthcare facilities throughout the state. Its chairman, Alfred Frungillo, founded Gourmet Dining in 1987. Mr. Frungillo began his career in the food service industry when he founded Frungillo Caterers in 1972. Frungillo Caterers continues to operate today and has become the largest off premise catering company in the greater metropolitan area. In 1987, Mr. Frungillo saw that his expertise in the catering field would make a dramatic impact in the food service industry. To do this, he searched for an individual with complementary skills in the wholesale and retail aspects of the food service industry. He was fortunate to make the acquaintance of Ben Aiello. At the time, Mr. Aiello was the Vice President of Aiello Food Manufacturing and the head of its food service division for retail sales. Over the past twenty years, this dynamic partnership has taken Gourmet Dining from a start-up company to a company with over 60 million dollars of sales per year. Today, Alfred and Ben continue to cultivate their dining partnerships working along side their children, Michael and Anthony Frungillo and Julie Aiello. The chemistry of this team combines a lifetime of experience in the food industry with the latest in today’s modern technologies and social consciousness. Our mission at Gourmet Dining is to provide an exemplary and unique dining experience for each client built on strong professional and personal relationships

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Fair Trade trumps at Manhattan College, with Help of GDS

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Manhattan College achieved Fair Trade status, the first College in New York City to achieve this status. Gourmet Dining worked together with the students of Manhattan College to provide Fair Trade foods available for purchase on campus. Manager Nick Valinotti team...

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Peter Fischbach Named Food Service Director of the Month

Peter Fischbach: Complacency Killer At the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Peter Fischbach wages war on the status quo. By Lindsey Ramsey Accomplishments PETER FISCHBACH has transformed the dining services department at NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY by: • DEVELOPING a vast series of sp...

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Meatless Mondays Begins at Seton Hall University

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The Setonian > News 'Meatless Monday' initiative increases vegetarian options By Ashley Duvall News Editor Gourmet Dining Services announced its "Meatless Monday" initiative that will offer an increased amount of vegetarian meals every Monday at Seton Hall University, acc...

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Kelloggs and Gourmet Dining Help Fight Hunger

Kellogg’s Food Away From Home would like to thank the Gourmet Dining team for their effort in last September’s and October’s Help Fight Hunger promotion.Thanks to the tremendous participation of Fairleigh Dickson University, Kean University, Manhattan College, New Jersey Institute ...

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Meatless Mondays on Campuses!

Gourmet Dining Kicks off the New Year with Meatless Monday Campaign Madison, NJ (January 5, 2012) – As part of its commitment to provide students, faculty, and staff with healthy, sustainable fare, Gourmet Dining is starting out the New Year by ...

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Ursino Gives Newark a Taste

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Ursino, the Farm to Table restaurant on the Kean University campus provided their latest samples at the Link Community School Fundraiser, "A Taste of Newark."  Ursino, which opened in October, is operated by Gourmet Dining. To learn more about the ...

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Food Service Director reports on GDS high-tech ordering syst

New ordering system implemented in cafeteria   Published: Thursday, October 27, 2011 Updated: Thursday, October 27, 20 11 09:10 Leah Poland, The Setonian Students and employees are supportive of the new ordering system. Gourmet Dining Service...

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Biggest Losers Win Big!

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  Gourmet Dining’s Biggest Loser Contest Changes More Than Just Waist Lines May 7, 2011 Over the past 3 months, across 6 campuses, 275 students came together to make a life changing commitment.  Together, students and staff at Seton Hall University, ...

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Gourmet Naturals programs makes natural food choices easier!

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Gourmet Dining introduces a company-wide campaign promoting our new natural food line “Gourmet Naturals.”  Gourmet Naturals is a new line of packaged snack foods dedicated to bringing you a variety of the cleanest, tastiest foods on the market. Gourmet Naturals will make...

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Gourmet Dining brings Biggest Loser program on campuses!

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With New Year's resolutions fresh in the minds of many students, and spring just around the corner, the Gourmet Dining team decided to launch the Biggest Loser program. Gourmet Dining has a long tradition of promoting healthy lifestyles and eating habits th...

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Kean Gets Organic

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The Kean University student newspaper, the "Cougar's Byte," reports on the success of the Cougar's Den, the new "all natural, healthy & delicious cafe." Come eat at the Cougar's Den! By: Strawberry Gallagher above: (right) Chef Erik Weatherspool (left) a student meeting ...

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Gourmet Dining Receives an A in Sustainability at Seton Hall

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&quo   The College Sustainability Report Card, an evaluation by the Sustainable Endowments Institute ranked the Gourmet Dining Food Service program at Seton Hall University to be a stellar program. How did they evaluate our program? College Sustainability Report Card 2011: Dining Service: ...

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Organic Eating Comes to FDU's Backyard

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Organic eating comes to FDU’s backyard Posted on 20 September 2010 Tags: gourmet dining, M. Anzidei, organic garden MELANIE ANZIDEINews Editor When running late to class, most students may hope to take their usual short-cut through the side of the dining hall. This yea...

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Bergen Goes Green

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A green transformation is underway at Bergen Community College’s main campus cafeteria — and you can help by following three simple rules: compost, recycle and conserve. Gourmet Dining Services and Bergen Community College are working together to realize the sustainable goals of bot...

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Kean Gets Organic

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  Kean Gets Organic Come eat at the Cougar's Den! By: Strawberry Gallagher Posted: 9/21/10   The Cougar's Den is the newest organic eatery on campus at Kean University. The idea of a healthier eatery on campus was created by President Dawood Farahi. He wanted an ...

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Rooftop Garden Press!

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The Rooftop Garden at NJIT has garnered attention from students, faculty and, the press! Gourmet Dining looks forward to the opportunities we can bring to our university campuses by helping to fund and build gardens. Reported and featured by the...

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Gourmet Dining announces serving Cage Free Eggs & Free Range

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Wednesday, September 1st, 2010, Al Frungillo joined Dr. Joel Bloom greet students to officially introduce one of Gourmet Dining's most important initiatives of the year: serving Cage Free Eggs and Free Range Chicken on the NJIT Campus. As of September 20...

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Natural, Healthy & Delicious Cafe at Kean

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In the newly renovated dining center, Kean University and Gourmet Dining officially announced the opening "Cougar's Den" restaurant, serving natural, healthy and delicious foods on Monday, August 23rd. The café is a “place to slow down and enjoy food the way it is su...

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Gourmet Rooftop Garden at NJIT!

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THE greenest roof in New Jersey… in Newark! August 26, 2010 – Newark, NJ.  Every inch of this roof is covered with green technology and innovation.  It captures green energy, with a large solar panel installation, panels that dance the tango with...

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Gourmet Dining: Revisiting the Local Food Supply

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Gourmet Dining has made huge strides in an efforts to source more local produce. As a local New Jersey based company, local business have always been our partners. This year, we have taken the next step in developing our loc...

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