Several thousand people in the Nashville community will be less hungry thanks to two Vanderbilt University students who have teamed with Vanderbilt Campus Dining for an innovative initiative to combat hunger in Middle Tennessee.

From April 8-30 students dining at The Commons Dining Center can forgo picking up a second side item with their meal in favor of donating its value to Second Harvest Food Bank.

This year was the 20th anniversary of Our Kids Soup Sunday, the event benefiting Our Kids, a nonprofit organization that provides medical evaluations and crisis counseling for children and families struggling with the issue of child sexual abuse. Attendees sample soups from dozens of the city’s best restaurants. Most of the soups have been specially created for this event. Campus Dining's, Kim Ingram, served Carrot Cake Soup with a Caramel and Cream Cheese Drizzle which took the coveted First Place - People's Choice Award.

January 4, 2013 - Campus Dining has been working to bring this restaurant to the program and now it is official... P. F. Chang's is now a partner restaurant on the Taste of Nashville program. Beginning Friday, January 4, students may now use their Commodore Card at the location on West End Avenue.

The second phase of renovations, opening Oct. 8, transforms the former bookstore space. Additions include the new Rand Lounge, which provides flexible seating for 300 and event space to host performances, trivia nights, Athletics viewing parties and more; and Pi and Leaf, a new dining option within Rand Lounge featuring handmade pizzas and fresh salads, open Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, 5-10 p.m.

Campus Dining donates used fry oil to the Alternative Energy Club for the purpose of making biodiesel. 

For other community involvement visit this page

Vanderbilt Campus Dining has won the Gold Award in the category of "Residential Dining - Special Events" in the 2012 Loyal E. Horton Dining Awards for its entry: Viva Las Vandy. Vanderbilt Campus Dining also won Honorable Mention award in the "Catering - Special Event" category for the entry: Farm to Fork.

The Loyal E. Horton Dining Awards celebrate exemplary menus, presentations, special event planning, and new dining concepts, and provide an avenue for sharing ideas and creative presentations in campus dining services.

Vanderbilt Campus Dining will be recognized at the NACUFS (National Association of College & University Food Service) national conference this July in Boston. The Grand Prize winners will be announced at that time.

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Last Drop Coffee Shop was featured in FoodService Director Magazine for it’s unique vibe. 

 ”Coffee shops on college campuses are now a well-known entity. The aesthetics are usually of the Starbucks-inspired variety—warm colors, comfy seating and dim lighting. Not the case with 12,700-student Vanderbilt University’s year-old Last Drop Coffee Shop, located in the Sarratt Student Center. Camp Howard, director of dining, says he wanted to create a distinctly different experience with the location.”

New Taste of Nashville Restaurants

We have added some new restaurants to the TON program:

• Sweet CeCe's (21st Ave. South)
  
• Chuy's (Midtown)
  

Students may use their Commodore Card at these locations utlizing Meal Money or Commodore Cash. For a complete list of restaurants please click here.

NEW Compostable Containers are Earth-Friendly!

These biocompostable containers are made from sugarcane and wheatstraw stalks
(renewable resources) and will biodegrade in 30 days. Containers are available at Rand Dining Center and Chef James Bistro for to-go items. Microwave safe.

Containers are Gluten-Free and Allergen-Free

Did you know that...

• Vanderbilt Campus Dining utlizes over 50 Local businesses.
• Vanderbilt Campus Dining uses Trans Fat Free fry oil in all our locations.
• Vanderbilt Campus Dining serves locally produced chicken in most of our restaurants.
• Vanderbilt Campus Dining serves all natural deli meat.
• Vanderbilt Campus Dining buys locally bottled water.
• Vanderbilt Campus Dining's salsa is a "PickTennesse" Product (local).
• Vanderbilt Campus Dining serves organic, local, fair trade coffee in all of our restaurants.
• We donate our fry oil to the Alternative Energy Club to make biodiesel.

EAT THE WORLD - SAVE THE EARTH

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Vanderbilt Campus Dining utilizes over 50 local (within a 300 mile radius) businesses:

Ach Food, Al Dente, Aladdin Temp Rite, Bake Crafters Food, Better Maid Products, Bonanza Produce, Bongo Java, Bush Brothers, Cavender Ice, Charpier Bakery, Chili Pops, C.O.I.-Nashville, Cascades Tissue, Clifty Farm Country Meats, Coffee Connexion, Colts Chocolates, Conagra Culinary, Creative Occasions, Custom Foods, Delvin Farms, Destiny Produce, DOD Produce, Falls Mill & Country Store, Family Brands/Elm Hill Meats, Fortune Plastics, Franklin Baker, Good Pasture Beef, Hatcher Family Dairy, IJ Company, International Paper - Memphis, Jimmy Dean, Lodge Manufacturing, McDonald's Farm, McKee Foods, Moody Dunbar, Mountain Jim Ice Cream, Nashua, Odoms Tennessee Pride, Phoenix Foods, Pictsweet Co., Processed Foods Corp, Provence Breads, Randall Staggs Honey, S.R. Smith Meats, Savannah Food Co., Shenandoah Mills, Specialty Breads, Stevison Ham Co, Swaggerty Sausage, Taste Maker Foods, Tennessee Cheesecake, Travis Meats, Tri-City Distributing, UTK Sushi, Wampler's Farm Sausage, West Wind Farms, Wild Muffin