Cornell University
OP-T2-4: Vegan Dining

One of Cornell Dining’s top priorities is to offer vegan and vegetarian entrees, sides, soups, and grab-n-go items in all of its dining locations. At each of the ten All You Care to Eat (AYCTE) locations, it is a standard to offer a complete protein vegetarian or vegan entrée and side dish at the hot traditional station. Some examples of the vegan options include sweet potato cashew patties, tofu and broccoli stir fry, tempeh scaloppini, and quinoa stuffed peppers. In addition to the hot traditional stations at the AYCTE locations, there is always a vegan or vegetarian soup, and vegan options at the salad bar, grill, and deli including hummus, grilled portobello mushroom, and tomato masala soup. Vegan pizzas are highlighted weekly at North Star dining and vegan desserts are served daily, including vegan pies, vegan cake, vegan puddings, and house made vegan cookies. AYCTE locations offer soy, rice, and almond milk as dairy free alternatives. m Cornell Dining also has over 20 retail locations. Each location boasts different vegan items on the menu. Just this semester, the addition of vegan pizzas, vegan quesadillas, and vegan pasta bakes have been added to menus at three different retail locations. Additionally, Cornell Dining has one retail location, One World Café, where the entire menu offers only vegetarian or vegan options. Examples of vegan options sold at retail operations include: Suzie’s Reuben (a vegan sandwich made with vegan cheese and locally produced seitan), the Atrium Vegetable Wrap (local tofu with a carrot, edamame, and cucumber salad on a wrap) and Poblano Small Planet Burger. Cornell Dining also offers a number of healthy "grain bars" which over a wide variety of whole grains and legumes. Additionally, this semester, whole grains salads, including vegan friendly quinoa, and farro, wheatberries, and bulgur are prepared in vegan and vegetarian ways and sold in grab and go cups at different coffee shops and retail locations. At Jansen’s Market, one of Cornell Dining’s convenience stores, a Peanut Butter Sandwich Bar is featured. Customers can make their own sandwich with fresh peanut butter, ground on site, with various "toppings" and whole grain bread.

Cornell Dining works closely with the Cornell Vegan Society to highlight the vegan menu options. Additionally, one dining hall prepares a vegan friendly menu for the Cornell Vegan Society once per month. Cornell Dining was voted the #2 vegan-friendly campus in the US in 2012-13 via PETA's annual vegan campaign. Cornell was voted #6 of the "Vegan-friendly" universities in 2011-12.