Gluten-Free and Allergen Friendly Options
Make a free nutrition consult with Patrick Freese, executive chef, and/or Matt Card, general manager, to discuss your dietary restrictions and receive guidance on nutrition and safe food selections in our resident dining cafés. They can introduce you to dining hall staff members and management and design a program that suits your individual needs.
Their contact info can be found here.
Dietary restrictions can make meals challenging. Add the stress of being in college, adjusting to living on your own, and a heavy academic load – it can feel overwhelming at times. Self-advocacy is an essential element to this process. Please review the information below. We look forward to serving you!
Many of our food items are labeled with icons to help you identify the menu items that meet your strict dietary restrictions. Our Simple Servings option provides you with safe appetizing food choices made without milk, eggs, wheat, soy, shellfish, peanuts, tree nuts and fish.
Our "My Zone" located in each café is our allergen free zone of your Favorite gluten, peanut & tree-nut free offerings. If you have any requests, please let us know!
Are you busy between classes, projects, extracurricular activities, and work? Are there days you just want to stay in and relax? Avoid the stress and save some time by ordering a Mobile Eats meal via our Everyday App. This program allows anyone to order a meal for pick-up from any of our cafes. Mobile Eats meals are fully customizable, changing daily with some everyday staples, and can be made to your exact needs or specifications.
Food Allergies
We take pride in serving you wholesome ingredients, preparing recipes accurately and providing nutritional analysis and ingredient statements through our online menus and nutrition calculator. From our general manager to our front line servers, we work carefully to address food allergies, celiac diets, or other special dietary needs.
We want to meet one-on-one with anyone who has individual dining needs to ensure that your dining experience is safe, delicious, and social. If you have a food allergy/special diet concern, please call or send us a note using the feedback form.
Mindful
Locate a healthier choice! All Mindful offerings meet stringent nutritional criteria based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Each Mindful item is limited in calories, has fewer than 30% of calories from fat, fewer than 10% of calories from saturated fat, and is restricted in sodium and cholesterol.
A variety of gluten-free items across our campus can accommodate customers with foods that are free from gluten-containing ingredients and protected against cross-contact with gluten.
Menu items with the vegetarian icon contain no meat, fish or poultry, or any meat products such as soup base. Our vegetarian offerings meet the needs of lacto-ovo vegetarians and may include eggs and/or dairy products.
Vegan offerings contain no meat, fish, eggs, milk or other animal-derived products such as honey.What Can You Do?
Is this the first time you have been fully responsible for your dietary restrictions? Here are some steps that you can take to advocate on behalf of yourself:
- ALWAYS read the allergen labels placed on menu items. When in doubt, always ask the food server.
- ALWAYS alert your food server of your food allergies. The only way your food servers will know of your allergies is if you tell them!
- ALWAYS carry your medications with you.
- Be sure that Dining Services has your food allergies and/or celiac disease on file.
- Consider wearing a medical alert bracelet. You will be meeting lots of new people! Many may be unaware of your allergies.