GT Dining Awards

• GT Dining was this year’s winner of the Hobart Center for Food Service Sustainability Grant.  See the following documents and video for more information.
  • GT Dining Won the 2010 Hobart Grant
  • Hobart's Press Release
  • Food Management Webinar
  • On-Campus Hospitality Article

News Article Links

• Elemental Impact
• Sodexo Helps Clients Earn Sustainability Distinction
• USA Today Trayless
• Time Trayless
• Sodexo Campus Clients Earn Green Recognition
• Academic Impressions Article

Composting Metrics

Current Efforts

• All Georgia Tech Dining locations have full pre and post consumer composting.  Over 300 tons of food waste has been composted since the inception of this program in August 2009.
• Georgia Tech Dining uses napkin dispensers that can reduce paper waste by up to 40% simply by dispensing one napkin at a time.
• Organic and local food is integrated into many of the dishes served on campus everyday.  A good example is the Simply Sustainable Salad Bar with 80% local and/or organic produce daily.
• Vegan and Vegetarian options are offered daily at all locations across campus.  Over 40% of our on campus meal options are vegan or vegetarian.  Click here for a comprehensive list of all our animal free offerings.
• Sustainability education is part of orientation for all front line employees, and all twenty-two of our managers have taken 4 courses on sustainability.
• Low flow faucets and sprayers have been installed in all campus kitchens. 
• The 2,600 gallons of biofuel made from our waste oil annually is used to power the GT landscaping equipment.
• We are trayless in both of our resident dining locations and have signage discouraging trays use in the Food Court.
• The new North Avenue Dining Hall will be built to meet the same LEED standard as the North Avenue Apartments complex.  The complex is currently working toward gold certification.
• GT Dining reusable mug program was piloted in 2007.  The purpose of this program is to eliminate Styrofoam from our campus.

Future Efforts

• GT Dining has made it a goal and a top priority to reduce our carbon footprint by 26% in the future. MORE

Get Involved

The Sustainable Dining committee, a partnership between students, staff and GT Dining, meets monthly over dinner to discuss action oriented ways to make dining on the Georgia Tech campus more sustainable.  Please view the Sustainable Dining Committee Page for more information.  

Email Nell Fry, GT Dining Sustainability Coordinator, with any questions, to get involved with any of our current projects or to join the Sustainable Dining Committee.