At Syracuse University, you will find more than 20 dining venues, ranging from cafes to all-you-care-to-eat dining centers. The Campus Dining team works hard to be responsive to students’ needs, and take good nutrition and food safety seriously.
Locations
Syracuse University Campus Map (Check the ‘Dining Options’ box!)
Administrative Offices
The Commissary is the hub of the department. This building houses administrative offices, the bakery and production kitchen, catering kitchen, vending operations, and warehouse operations.
Bakery
Every night the baking team produces bagels, cakes, cookies, and specialty pastry so it can be shipped out to different locations fresh each morning. All the pizza dough used in the dining centers, food courts, and at the JMA Dome is also made in the Bakery. In addition, the Bakery bakes and decorates cakes for the “Hugs from Home” program. Campus departments can order baked goods here.
Production Kitchen and Cook-Chill Facilities
The food produced in the commissary Cook-Chill and Production Kitchen are free from peanut and tree nut (except coconut) allergens. Foods made here includes soups, stews, deli and specialty salads, entrees, and grab-and-go items. The Production Kitchen and Cook-Chill facilities enable campus dining centers and food courts to offer more variety and consistency at every meal.
To ensure food safety, the strictest HAACP standards are adhered to at all times. To help make certain of this, the Production Kitchen is housed in a refrigerated room that is maintained at a temperature of 55 degrees. All steps are taken to make sure that no food items are contaminated or that food safety is compromised in any way.
In addition to the Cook-Chill and the Production Kitchen, the Commissary houses our Campus Dining test kitchen, where we demo new products from our vendors and develop new recipes to keep up with trends and meet the needs of guests and customers.
Campus Catering
The Commissary is home to the Campus Catering staff. The Catering kitchen is always buzzing with activity as the cooks prepare meals from simple luncheons to elegant dinner parties. The Commissary is the hub for planning, cooking, and gathering for events. From there, the Campus Catering staff can travel to any event to cater in their signature award-winning style. Contact Campus catering at: campuscatering@syr.edu
Warehouse Operations
The Campus Dining Warehouse is responsible for storing and maintaining the products that come from all the suppliers from receiving to shipping. At any time there may be over 3000 different products in 28 categories that have to be received, stored, and tracked.