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Find out how you and four friends can win $100 Flex each, just by eating with Columbia Dining.

When the lunch crunch gets real, follow our tips for the best experience possible.

Pop-up alert! On September 7, 12, and 13, Columbia Dining Plan Holders and Barnard Dining Plan Holders can use their meal swipes at Terry and Yaki, the first and only halal Asian food cart in NYC. Their menu will include a delicious variety of meat and plant-based teriyaki dishes. 

Congratulations to the Columbia Dining team for being included in the Princeton Review's listing as one of the top 25 campus for food.

New for the Fall 2023 semester, Columbia Dining has added a food truck to its wide range of on-campus lunch destinations.

We’ve heard our Dining Plan Holders ask for more space, more options, and more Columbia Dining, and we’re thrilled to deliver. 

What do surfing lobsters, snow cones, and a boatload of shrimp have in common? They were all a part of the Columbia Dining Surf & Turf 2023 experience! On April 20, John Jay Dining Hall and Ferris Booth Commons transformed into tropical oases for this annual springtime event.

For the first time ever, Columbia Dining is providing meal service for graduating undergrad Columbia Dining Plan Holders during Commencement Week as part of Senior Sendoff!

The Columbia Dining program is for you – our plateholders! We take your feedback seriously. Undergraduate students on a Dining Plan recently completed the 2023 survey and here’s what you said.

Columbia Dining has launched its integration with Occuspace, a new technology vendor partner, to improve accuracy of the existing capacity indicator on the website for Dining Hall locations.

On February 28, five dining halls - Faculty House, John Jay, JJ's Place, Chef Mike's Sub Shop, and Ferris Booth Commons - competed in a epic food showdown: the battle of the boroughs.

What does the celebration of Black History Month look like to a food-driven organization? For Columbia Dining, it's an opportunity to celebrate the many contributions made to the culinary world by Black Chefs both within and beyond our team. 

Five Dining Halls. Two awards. One trophy. One champion belt. On February 28 at 1:00 p.m. in Lerner Auditorium, there'll be an epic food showdown and all Columbia Dining Plan Holders are invited to attend.

On February 7, we welcomed Chef Chris Scott of Butterfunk Biscuit Co. to John Jay Dining Hall. Chef Scott sampled his signature biscuit sandwiches and fried biscuit donuts. If you're like us and couldn't get enough (or you missed out), you can find Chef Scott and Butterfunk Biscuit Co. at Manhattanville Market in the Jerome L. Greene Science building. 

T'was the season to be merry! We love *everything* about the holidays: the food, the decorations, and the festive spirit. That's why we threw not one, not two, but THREE epic parties for the 2022 holiday season.

We're not engineers, but we know how to calculate good food that you'll love --like fresh-made pizza pi.

It was the one where we celebrated together.

Get to know our management staff over a delicious cup of hot cocoa! Our managers will be hosting hour-long meet-and-greet sessions at each dining hall. Use this opportunity to ask questions about dining operations, or just to meet our managers. Plus, students who introduce themselves can enter into a raffle for a NEW Chef Mike's Sub Shop T-shirt!

On Friday, October 21, we celebrated our favorite lion’s birthday and the start of 2022 Homecoming weekend.

Good for the planet, and good for your wallet! Max 24 oz. refill.

Be among the first 25 Columbia Dining Plan Holders to visit each Columbia Dining location (residential and retail) and win a custom branded Yeti tumbler, plus a lifelong claim to fame as a #1 Dining Fan.

If you could add one dish to our menu, what would it be? We love receiving student requests and try to incorporate them into our menu wherever possible. You can even submit a specific recipe!

Based on feedback from students, Columbia Dining was selected by the Princeton Review as one of the top 25 for Best Campus Food.

We sifted through more than 350 submissions to find the most delicious ideas for new subs at Chef Mike's Sub Shop. There were many contenders, but only the best of the best deserve to be served at Chef Mike's! 

Based on feedback from our most popular menus, Faculty House features fresh fish each day, plus a meat and vegan entrée, and sides of pasta, veggies, starches, grains, and salads – and don’t forget fruit or dessert!

We're serving up subs like Chef Mike’s own grandmother used to make. Every day offers a selection of hot and cold traditional or vegan oversized sub specials, served on semolina rolls.

Flex is accepted on campus, at the University Bookstore, and at several local businesses including grocery stores, restaurants, health and drug stores. Plus, now Flex can be used for delivery orders through Grubhub.