Dining on Campus
Carthage Dining, powered by Parkhurst, emphasizes fresh, healthy, and creative meals hand-crafted by expertly trained chefs. Have your choice of a wide variety of delicious and nutritious meals, featuring local and sustainable food sources, build-your-own meal concepts, and special options for every diet, including vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free.
On-campus dining options include:
- “The Caf” — an all-you-care-to-eat cafeteria with multiple fresh options every day
- Starbucks — your favorite beverages and snacks in the Clausen Center
- Einstein Bros’ Bagels – bagels, sandwiches, and coffee in the Hedberg Library
- ReFuel — smoothies and healthy options in the TARC
- Lentz Do Lunch — offering grab-and-go fare including salads, sandwiches, sushi, and desserts
- The Campbell Student Union — offering three rotating restaurants and a convenience store
Learn more about dining on campus
Video transcript
There are a lot of variety of options on campus to eat. You can go to the cafeteria and that is more of like a buffet-style and they have a bunch of different options there, whether it's pizza, they have a salad bar, they have sushi every Wednesday. So there are a lot of options there.
And then you can also go to the STU, the Campbell Student Union. So that has like three different dining options. There's the Red Zone, that's really like a quick stop-and-go place. And then we have Starbucks as well which is perfect for my 8 AM. We go there right before we get some coffee.
On campus, there are two rotating food options. So we have the Flex Kitchen which is located in the STU and that is menus that are rotated by our on-campus Parkhurst staff. So our dining service they listen to student input, and what the menu will be. And then right next to it in the STU is our Local Scene, which is a pop-up revolving option catered by local Racine and Kenosha area restaurants.
For students that have dietary restrictions, there are a ton of options on campus. You can if you're vegetarian or vegan, they have like the vegetarian patties they have a lot of vegan like cheese options even. So they'll have like on the menu, things that are gluten-free, or things that you can sub in to make their options gluten-free, vegetarian, whether you want something that's healthier, you want comfort food, you need something that is gluten-free, you need something that's vegetarian, they really can have it all.