About BC Dining

Welcome to BC Dining!

As a team of over two hundred full-time employees and several hundred more part-time employees, we take our motto of ever to excel in F.A.C.T. (food, attitude, customer service, teamwork) to heart in everything that we prepare for you. BC Dining is proud to be the recipient of several industry awards over the past few years that recognize our commitment to excellence in every facet of our food service operations, from our human resource practices to the food that we serve to you each and every day. In an effort to continue to set the standard for industry excellence, BC Dining spends a great deal of time throughout the year making operational decisions that will better serve you and enhance your dining experience across campus.

Here are some of the highlights of what’s new at BC Dining:

• Farmer's Markets - Thursdays in September and early October from 3:00-6:00 on the Corcoran Commons Plaza come and enjoy local produce from around New England.
• World Market - Look for big menu changes in Corcoran, Stuart and at McElroy at the World Market Station. We’ve revamped the menu to reflect more international choices from cuisines as diverse as Thailand and Morocco.
• All Natural Burgers - BC Dining has partnered with a local all natural meat producer for a new dinner menu at the Hillside Café. We are cooking an all natural burger to order with a side of thick cut fries and multiple toppings to customize your burger just to your liking. So come in and taste what eating all natural and local is all about.
• The Eagle's Nest - This year you will find the stations at the Nest more accommodating to your needs. We have added another “Specialty Sandwich” line to shorten the lines at lunch, added a new hot pressed sandwich line, a soup bar with six types of fresh soup daily, and an expanded custom sandwich line as well as a temptations dessert station. All in the hopes of making your dining more pleasant at the lunch rush.
• Grab n’ Go - This year we have several new grab n’ go offerings in all of our Eagle on the Fly grab n’ go coolers in each dining unit. These include a selection ranging from smoked turkey on a cranberry baguette to the tried and true Italian combo this year on a seeded sub roll, so come on down to Lyons to grab one or find one at a dining hall near you.
• Vegetarian Options - As always we are looking for more ways to please the vegetarian palate and to that end we have added some new items as part of the revised menus at World Market.
• Seasonal and Local - In all dining locations look for new menu items at all meal periods that take advantage of the best seasonal products available. You will find more frequent menu changes this year in our major dining facilities so that our regular customers see more variety on a seasonal basis.
• Meal Plan Options for Non-Mandatory Students – you asked….we listened. BC Dining has implemented  meal plan options for non mandatory students who live on and off campus that will help students budget their dining funds each semester. 

Coming soon from BC Dining:

• On-line Gift Program – Coming soon, this program will allow you to order gift baskets for every occasion; from birthdays to a get well gift box…BC dining is making it easy to reach out to your friends and colleagues on campus. Gifts may be purchased with Dining Bucks, Eagle Bucks or a credit card. You will order on line and an e-mail will go to the recipient letting them know that they have received a gift. It will be available for pick up on the second floor of Corcoran Commons. In the near future we hope to offer an on campus delivery option as well.
• Sustainability Mission Statement - BC Dining is committed to being a socially responsible dining program that is an industry leader in our purchasing and food preparation practices. To that end we support local farming and regional production efforts and give those efforts first priority in all purchasing decisions. We constantly are striving to decrease our impact on the carbon footprint and increase awareness around sound and sustainable environmental practices in our dining facilities. But we need your help and support in these efforts. Let us know it matters to you – remember your purchasing decisions have a huge influence on what we serve and a real impact on people and the environment that sustain us daily.

And Don't Forget...
• Late night has been expanded on Thursday nights at Corcoran Commons until 2:00 am.
• We have expanded our hours of operation at Carney’s and Corcoran to meet the needs of your busy schedules and to try and mitigate over-crowding at peak meal periods.
• We created a meal plan calculator on our web site to help you better budget your meal plan expenditures throughout the semester.
• Nutrition and Special Dietary Needs – BC Dining has had a long term commitment to meeting the individual needs of our customer. If you have food allergies, special dietary restrictions, or simply need guidance with food selections we have the resources to help you make delicious choices safely and easily. Contact us through the BC dining web site and we’ll connect you with qualified staff at your convenience.

As always we encourage active participation by you, our customers, in the shaping of your dining experience. We hope you will keep in touch via the web, your UGBC representatives, the student dining committee, dining comment cards, or by talking to one of our many dining managers available to answer your questions or address your comments through-out the day. The entire staff of BC Dining invites you to sample all that we have to offer as we begin a new academic year.

Bon Appetit!

Look at all the top industry awards BC Dining has won over the past few years.