Maine Course by Sodexo

10/12/2026

09/24/2026

Today at Portland, Maine Course is delighted to host Green Bee Craft Beverages . Green Bee Honey Sodas is one of our favorite local vendors who brings its refreshing, delicious sodas to our campuses. The Brunswick, Maine company crafts sodas in small batches using pure honey, fresh-squeezed juice, and natural botanicals. You won't find high-fructose corn syrup or artificial additives in any of their sodas. It started in the founder's home kitchen, with his kids acting as judges. Their favorite, the Lemon Stinger, earned requests for more, sparking the creation of honey-sweetened beverages for us all in Green Bee sodas, . Try them all, but my favorite is the Honeycomb C***r which is made with Ricker Hill apples, !

09/23/2026

I found my thrill… Today is all about blueberries! Passamaquoddy Wild Blueberry Company () took center stage. Students at got to try wild blueberries in energy bites, while Executive Chef Ginny Jordan and her team filled the dining hall with creative blueberry dishes. There was blueberry lemonade, blueberry-glazed pork tenderloin, blueberry vinaigrette at the salad bar, and lemon blueberry truffles for dessert. The Passamaquoddy tribe’s blueberry farm keeps a centuries-old tradition alive, harvesting wild blueberries for both sustenance and self-reliance.

09/22/2026

Maine Course is celebrating vegetables today! No imitation meats, just simple, fresh flavors. Another fantastic local vendor joined us for our Eat Like a Local event at , Veggie Life, a woman-owned business from Wells founded in 2018, focuses on tasty, sustainable food. They make small-batch vegan dishes with local ingredients. Today, students sampled Veggie Life's jackfruit chili and quinoa burgers.

09/17/2026

Americans really love hot dogs! Between Memorial Day and Labor Day, people buy more than 7 billion of them, which comes out to 818 hot dogs every second. Why not enjoy a local favorite? This month, Maine Course is highlighting some of our best local vendors. Today, we’re at the Maine Maritime Academy () , featuring one of our top picks: W.A. Bean’s all-beef hot dogs. W A Bean & Sons , based in Bangor, has been making hot dogs for over 160 years. This six-generation family business truly knows their hot dogs. They’re also famous for their Red Snapper dogs, which are loved for their signature snap. But hot dogs aren’t all they make. W.A. Bean offers more than 30 products, including spiral hams and blueberry sausage. They’re definitely a Maine Course favorite.

09/14/2026

The Maine Course by Sodexo is in Fort Kent today, kicking off our Eat Like a Local celebrations. Today's focus was on our local dairies. Our partner, the Northeast Organic Family Farm Partnership () , joined us at University of Maine at Fort Kent Dining to offer samples of local yogurt, blueberries, and granola parfaits, and to talk with students about why supporting local dairies matters. Maine's dairy farms are facing tough times because of federally set milk prices, high production and transportation costs, and labor shortages. In 1994, Maine had 602 dairy farms. Now, only 140 are left. By supporting our local dairy farmers, we can help keep this important part of Maine's agricultural history alive. Eat Like a Local! It matters!

09/10/2026

Join us in celebrating local farmers, fishing communities, and businesses. For the next two weeks, Maine Course will visit each Maine campus to share some of our favorite local products. Take a look at our event calendar to see when we’ll be at your campus.

09/09/2026

Over the next two weeks, Eat Like a Local events will take place on our Maine campuses. Maine Course will feature some of our favorite vendors. By eating local, we get fresh ingredients and help our local economy by supporting farmers, fishing communities, and small businesses. This also reduces transportation miles and carbon emissions, making our food system more sustainable and supporting our community. Look for one of our events on your campus in the next two weeks.

08/17/2026

Maine Course took a field trip to W.A. Bean & Sons in Bangor to discover what gives the iconic Red Snapper its snap and the other W.A. Bean deliciously hand-crafted products we bring into campus dining halls.

At Maine Course by Sodexo, supporting local means partnering with Maine legends like W.A. Bean & Sons (), which has produced the legendary Snapper for 160 years. What started in 1860 as Albert Bean's one-person operation is now a 6th-generation company producing 1 million pounds of product a year, employing 23 people.

Did you know W.A. Bean made the original Red Snapper and now remains the only company making them here in Maine?

In the 1930s, a German migrant wandered into Albert Bean's shop and suggested dyeing the hot dogs red, as they did in Germany as a promotional tool to stand out in a busy Bangor marketplace. The novel red, hot dog was a hit, and a Maine legend was born. The Red Snapper!

Every Red Snapper is still hand-wrapped in natural lamb casing for that signature snap.

W. A. Bean not only produces the Red Snapper but also over 30 other quality meat products. From Snappers to Maine blueberry sausages, hams, and deli meats, we're proud to serve W.A. Bean products in our Maine Sodexo campus dining halls.