Social Responsibility

Food and Beverage Offerings

• We offer local meat, poultry, and dairy through collaboration with Purdy & Sons and other New York State providers.
• Frank Dining Hall offers organic rice, grains, and other foods daily.
• We are identifying additional local vendors through the Cornell Cooperative Extension.
• We serve organic and fair trade hot beverages.

Sustainable Partnerships

• We provide 80 dinners weekly to an area soup kitchen.
• Our Community Garden provides a platform for expanded horticulture and environmental education, along with community gardening best practices.
• We offer beverage discounts at the Coop and the library café for those with reusable mugs.
• Our fryer oils are picked up and converted into local fuel.
• We recycle cardboard, plastic, cans, and bottles.

Sustainable Packaging

• We use pre-recycled, compostable napkins in all locations.
• We serve on non-disposable china and reusable hard plastic for meals at Frank Dining Hall.
• All our take-out locations utilize corn-based compostable packaging and flatware.
• We participate in a campus-wide ban of Styrofoam products.