In the News: Buffalo State Dining Featured on WKBW Channel 7

Buffalo State Dining was featured on WKBW-TV 7 on February 14 for its efforts to bring authentic international cuisine to campus in partnership with WEDI—the Westminster Economic Development Initiative. The segment, titled “Buffalo State University Partners with WEDI to Spice Up Campus Cuisine,” by Yoselin Person, interviewed Glenn Bucello, the resident district manager for Chartwells Dining at Buffalo State, about the initiative.

WEDI provides small loans to early-career entrepreneurs. Buffalo State invites a new WEDI-funded small business to campus each semester to introduce a different cultural food for Buffalo State students to enjoy. This semester’s featured pop-up restaurant is KT Caribbean Cuisine, owned by Terry Chiddick, who serves authentic Caribbean recipes from her native Trinidad and Tobago.

“We really wanted to get KT Caribbean in here to be able to offer something that we didn’t already have in the program, that was truly going to be an authentic flavor,” Bucello said of the decision to bring the pop-up to campus this semester. “We didn’t want to just recreate it. We wanted it to come from the heart.”

KT Caribbean’s menu is particularly appealing to many of the Buffalo State students who come from New York City.

“In Brooklyn there’s a Caribbean place on every street,” said Buffalo State student Tesoim Abiodun, “and up here you can barely find them. So it’s comforting.”

KT Caribbean Cuisine is open to both the Buffalo State community and the general public. The pop-up restaurant in the Campbell Student Union is open six days a week from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Photo credit: Ronise Daluz

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