Dining Services
An Award-Winning Dining Program
Your Dining Services team is committed to preparing food from-scratch, in small batches as close to service as possible. We are passionate about food and take pride in serving skillfully-prepared meals that are fresh, never-frozen and hand-crafted from the highest quality ingredients. We source significant portions of our food from local farmers, growers, and artisans, including produce from W&L’s own Campus Garden. Our menus emphasize fresh, local and healthy options and are available in a variety of venues and formats, from all-you-care-to-eat to On the Go! to specialty catered events.
Transact Mobile Ordering
Order what you want, when you want it, all from your mobile device. Download the Transact Mobile Ordering app to get started.
Sustainability
W&L has a goal for campus carbon neutrality by 2050, but we are racing to get there a whole lot sooner. This means innovating how we source, use, and dispose of resources here on campus, designing our buildings, landscape and operations for the best environmental impact, and collaborating on progress with communities across campus and throughout Rockbridge County. Explore our progress and plans on the tabs below and in the most recent update of W&L’s Climate Action Plan.
Meet Our Team
It is our goal that every W&L Dining team member be able to assist you in a friendly and helpful way whenever you have questions. Please don’t hesitate to ask us for assistance. We are here to serve you!
W&L Care Package Program
We’ve created several fun and delicious ways to help you tell your special student, staff member or friend that you’re thinking of them and the best part is that you can include your own personal note in every package!
Student Employment
Dining Services employs dozens of work-study students throughout our venues. All students who are eligible for financial aid may apply through the student employment system and may request positions in The Marketplace, Café 77, Fieldside, E. Café, Tea House, Brief Stop, Catering, or the Campus Bakery. Gain valuable work experience in a fun, fast-paced environment!
Meal Vouchers
W&L Dining Services is pleased to offer on-campus meal vouchers, intended to support university-related activities in alignment with institutional goals. A meal voucher is a redeemable paper slip provided and billed by W&L Dining Services Administration to the department that is sponsoring any person, group, etc. Departments may request meal vouchers for students, faculty, staff, and visitors.
Washington and Lee Receives Grant from Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
The grant will support a cross-campus collaboration to optimize efforts to reduce food waste.
Midnight Breakfast: A Tradition Worth Staying Up For
Since 1992, the W&L community has come together to provide students with sustenance and camaraderie during finals week.
W&L Celebrates 2025 National Food Service Workers Day
The Marketplace will host a special lunch to celebrate the work of the university’s nearly 300 Dining Services employees.
Washington and Lee Dining Services Receives National Award
The National Association of College & University Food Services awarded W&L the grand prize for the Employee Development Program of the Year.
Enjoy an Eventful 2024 Holiday Season
W&L celebrates the 2024 holiday season with a wide variety of campus and local events.
W&L Marketplace Celebrates National Food Service Workers Day
Approximately 300 Dining Services employees plan, make and serve meals at one of the seven dining facilities on campus.
Spring Update on Campus Construction Projects
New Williams School construction and Elrod Commons Phase 2 renovations both remain on schedule, while the new Lindley Center for Student Wellness will break ground soon.
W&L Announces Upcoming Campus Construction Projects
A new Williams School facility and renovations to University Chapel and Sydney Lewis Hall among several projects on the horizon.
Campus Dining Renovation Enters First Phase
A reimagined Marketplace and Café 77 will enhance the campus dining experience. Phase one will be completed for Fall Term 2023.
W&L Ends the Sale of Disposable Water Bottles
Office of Sustainability facilitates launch of new policy to help reduce single-use plastics