Dining Services plays a vital role on the UConn Storrs campus. We serve more than 116,000 meals per week in our eight residential dining units, as well as offering excellent food and service throughout campus in 5 cafes (including one that is plant-based), a multi-concept food court, 3 eateries, an ice cream shop, a food truck, an ice cream truck, and two bakeries (one strictly gluten-free). We also have a convenience store, student farm, catering division, conference & event services division, test kitchen, commissary, and central production kitchen.

As one of the largest self-operated food service programs in the country, our services extend beyond just having tasty food for our customers. We strive to be sensitive to the varied needs of students with special dietary requirements such as vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, nut-free, Kosher, and Halal. As the sole provider of food service on our campus, we have the obligation, responsibility, and honor of serving healthy, sustainable, and delicious food to our student body.

Want to know more? Check out our social accounts @uconndining or some of our highlights below on how we're involved on campus, in the community, and with sustainability initiatives.

UConn Dining Services Highlights

• UConn Dining Services is the largest consumer of locally grown produce in Connecticut.
• Give-A-Meal fundraiser events to give back to local/campus organizations
• Annual Dining Services Culinary Olympics competition amongst our chefs
• In-house Culinary Institute for professional development/advancement
• Our Student farm provides fresh produce to some of the dining halls & to the weekly campus farmers' market from July to early Fall
• UConn Earth Day Spring Fling event is all about sustainability - Dining participates with a zero waste bbq
• Dining Services oversees the Storrs campus food pantry - Husky Harvest (open to all with a UConn ID)
• Some of our chefs show off their creative ice carvings at the annual Downtown Storrs Winter Festival
• Recipe/learn to cook demos with departments, student orgs, athletic teams and local community
• Our Bakery provides a Thanksgiving Pie sale for the campus and public
• Monthly Theme Meals/Pop-Up Events
• UCann Cook - kids summer cooking camp 
• UConn Dairy Bar has award-winning ice cream & cheese and is consistently voted a favorite spot in the state.
• Opened a plant-forward café on the Storrs campus in August 2021
• Feedback sessions with students
• Dining has won numerous NACUFS Recipe awards
• Sustainability initiatives
  • Cooking oil recycled
  • Purchasing and highlighting local food
  • Food waste converted to biogas
  • Reusable to-go container
  • No plastic straws or bags
  • Working towards net-zero energy at the farm