Sustainable Catering Guide
Elevate your event with eco-friendly catering choices and resources.
Culinary Commitments for a Sustainable Food System
From strategic placement of plant-forward options to solving the perfect proportions of meat, poultry, serving utensils, plates, and bowls, Stanford’s dining halls are living laboratories for designing a food experience that makes healthy, sustainable choices easier, desirable, and more attainable.
One Plate, One Planet
Each plate served and each meal consumed is an opportunity to create a better future for the planet. Residential & Dining Enterprises’ Stanford Dining demonstrates sustainable, ethical, and healthy food systems can be deployed at scale, while simultaneously inspiring the next generation to improve how Earth’s precious resources are managed.
Farms (and Fisheries) to Table
Stanford Dining’s purchasing standards provide sustainable diets and economies. Whenever possible, food from sustainable fisheries and from farms that is agroecological, direct, fair, humane, local, organic, and raised without antibiotics and hormones is purchased.
Taste Tests Beyond the Kitchen
Stanford strategically designs the dining experience to promote nutritious and sustainable food choices. As a co-founder of the Menus of Change University Research Collaborative (MCURC), Stanford’s ideas shift people toward healthier, more sustainable, and delicious foods using evidence-based research.
The Stanford Flavor Lab researches and develops eating experiences that integrate food biodiversity, works to broaden the techniques of building taste and flavor, and concocts delectable menu items.
Food Too Good to Waste
Project Drawdown ranks reducing food waste the #1 solution for reversing global warming. Stanford’s food recovery program encourages all campus food generators to avoid food waste from the start and distribute any excess to the campus or local community. Everyone has a role to play to address campus food insecurity and reduce waste.
Food Resources
How to Host a Sustainable Event
Ideas to responsibly reduce waste at your next event.
How to Eat Sustainably on Campus
Ideas to reduce the climate impact of your food choices on campus.
Food Recovery Resources
Donating excess edible food is required by California law. Explore ways to reduce food waste from the start and learn how to plug into campus food recovery efforts.