Tulane Dining Outlines Plans for Fall 2020

Tulane University Dining by Sodexo is ready to welcome students back this fall with new offerings and extensive safety measures in place.

A temporary structure, dubbed the Dining Pavilion on the Berger Family Lawn, will act as a secondary all-you-care-to-eat, resident dining location. The location will house former retail concepts, The Currier tuk tuk, Healthy TU tuk tuk, Global Mobile food truck and Roulez food truck.

A Chef’s Table has been added which will feature entrees and sides.

Students and guests will use meal swipes to enter the Dining Pavilion and dine. All locations will have a defined entrance and exit to avoid cross flow of traffic as well as capacity restrictions. This will ensure 6 feet of social distance between groups. Directional floor stickers and signage will also aid in the implementation of social distancing.

Table-top signage at all dining locations will help encourage guests sitting with “cohort” groups, as well as to signal if the tables have been properly sanitized or are waiting to be sanitized by a clean team member.

On the Academic Quad, a new food truck concept Bowlful will feature all plant-based bowls.

Dining plan meal swipes have been extended to Le Gourmet featuring Rollin’ n Bowlin’ and Zatarain’s in the LBC Food Court. Zatarain’s will feature Simplified recipes (freshly prepared proteins, vegetables, and carbohydrates made without milk, wheat, soy, peanuts, tree nuts, shellfish, eggs, or gluten).

All dining venues will also feature acrylic plexiglass barriers, as well as full-service stations to help prevent any contact between student/faculty/staff and Sodexo workers.

All Sodexo employees will be tested for COVID-19 according to University policy and complete a symptom and temperature check before entering the operation for work. Every employee will wear masks during work hours unless eating a meal during lunch breaks.

Additional training has been added for all employees related to COVID-19 standards of operation.

Hand washing and hand sanitizer stations will be added throughout dining operations to encourage hand hygiene. Additional clean teams have been added to each shift to ensure tables and stations are properly sanitized between guests.

Tulane University Dining Services has partnered with the mobile ordering app Grubhub, which will be implemented at all retail locations on campus to allow for contactless ordering and payment, as well as delivery pick-up stations.

The 1834 Club faculty/staff dining room will be converted into restaurant style dining. Seating capacity has been reduced and buffet service discontinued. Guests will be greeted by a host/hostess who will take their order and serve the meal.

Due to Covid-19 restrictions, the reciprocal dining plan agreement with Loyola University has been suspended until further notice. Tulane dining venues will also be closed to non-Tulane affiliates and the public.

For more information, visit https://diningservices.tulane.edu/.