SCampus Student Guidebook

Student Services

Dining

TrojanHospitality
(213) 740-6285
hospitality.usc.edu

TrojanHospitality provides a wide range of services at more than 32 venues situated throughout the University Park and Health Science campuses.

Meal Plans and Residential Dining

The dining program offers a wide range of options and facilities to ensure that your experience is an enjoyable one. If you are assigned to a building with a mandatory meal plan, you will be automatically enrolled in the appropriate plan or may, in certain cases, be able to select an optional upgrade. Regardless of where you live, all students are able to purchase a meal plan. Students living in apartments or commuting to campus may want to choose a convenient “Community Meal Plan.”

Kosher Foods

Kosher foods are available in Main Street Commons and at Parkside Restaurant. The SChalom Floor, located in the Parkside Apartment complex, facilitates kosher cooking in residents’ kitchens and the Hillel Jewish Center offers Friday evening Sabbath and holiday meals, including Passover.

Room Service

TrojanHospitality offers a Web-based delivery service for students who crave pizza but are too busy studying to pick one up. You can place an order at www.uscroomservice.com and have a fresh hot pizza delivered. Room Service also offers a wide selection of finger foods and beverages ideal for study sessions or meetings. Log on to view the full menu or to place an order.

Vegetarian Foods

TrojanHospitality residential dining facilities offer daily vegetarian entrees, side dishes and salads. Main Street Convenience Store offers a variety of vegetarian convenience items. Other retail facilities offer a variety of vegetarian options as well.

Dining Locations

Residential Dining

Parkside Restaurant, located in Parkside Residential College, serves international cuisine specialties from four exhibition stations and also offers vegetarian selections, kosher meals, sandwiches and salads.

Everybody’s Kitchen (EVK), located adjacent to Birnkrant and New Residential Colleges, offers American cuisine entrees, Mexican and vegetarian stations, sandwiches, salads and desserts.

Commons

Commons dining provides three floors of diversified food services. The Grill, located on the lower level, features Rice Garden Mandarin Chinese, La Salsa Fresh Mexican Grill and Malibu Subs, offering subs made-your-way with a full soup and salad bar. The campus pub, Traditions, is also located on this level and provides a meeting place for students, faculty and staff who are 21 years of age and older.

On the main level are six dining operations, including: the Main Street Convenience Store; Wolfgang Puck’s Pizza Express Café; Carl’s Jr.; Wasabi Sushi; Colombo Frozen Yogurt; and Seattle’s Best coffee, featuring fresh baked muffins, cookies, bagels and cinnamon rolls.

Upstairs Café

Upstairs Café, located on the upper level, is a full service restaurant offering an American cuisine menu including appetizers, entrées, sandwiches, salads, desserts and a full beverage selection.

Café ‘84

Located adjacent to the Lyon Center, Café ‘84 features Jamba Juice smoothies; Starbucks Coffee; pasta; pizza; The Grill; “Wok Crazy” Mongolian style stir fry; as well as a variety of pastries, baked goods, sandwiches, salads and convenience items.

Trojan Grounds

Located in Birnkrant Residential College and adjacent to McCarthy Quad, this coffee house features Starbucks Coffee and speciality beverages, pastries, baked goods, sandwiches, salads and convenience items.

Popovich Cyber Café

Popovich Cyber Café is located at the Marshall School of Business and serves fresh sandwiches, hot entrées and Starbucks coffee. The dining room is equipped with Ethernet connections.

Law School Café

Located in the basement level of the Law School. The café serves hot entrées, grab-and-go sandwiches and salads. It also offers baked goods, snacks, self-service yogurt, Peet’s coffee and fountain and bottled beverages.

LiteraTea

Located in the courtyard behind Doheny Library, LiteraTea serves Peet’s coffee, tea, grab-and-go snacks, sandwiches, salads and sushi.

Tutor Hall Café

Located in the Viterbi School of Engineering, Tutor Hall Café features global cuisine, Peet’s coffee, sandwiches, salads and beverages.

Town and Gown

Elegant Town and Gown, USC’s historic ballroom venue, offers a full range of banquet and catering services from wine and hors d’oeuvres receptions to the highly detailed gourmet affair. The spacious ballroom boasts cathedral ceilings and imported crystal chandeliers. Complementing the space is a large foyer with fireplace, period furnishings, an English garden courtyard and a quaint chapel.

Health Sciences Campus

The Plaza Marketplace offers a state-of-the-art food court, café and convenience store. Einstein Bagels serves made-to-order bagel sandwiches and coffee. The Edmondson Faculty Center, a membership-only club, offers a first-class lunch menu and is available for catering functions for every occasion, seven days a week. HSC Catering Services will cater any breakfast, lunch or dinner, meeting, reception or party at any location, on or off campus.

Vending Machines

Vending machines are also situated on campus for your convenience with a large concentration of machines located in the vending gazebo east of Seeley G. Mudd Hall.

Hours

All dining hours vary during the semester and holiday breaks. Refer to the published schedule available at the entrance of each dining facility and on the TrojanHospitality Web site (hospitality.usc.edu).