Shaping the Future of Dining Services at MIT

With a goal of offering nutritious and delicious meals that are reasonably priced and accessible from morning until night, the dining roadmap initiative will design a fiscally sustainable campus dining program.

After years of study, we understand that students want more from our campus dining program: quality food, accessible throughout the day, at an affordable price. Building on prior reviews and survey data, the dining roadmap initiative will take a solutions-focused approach to identifying the opportunities for change and elevating the campus dining program to better serve the needs of the MIT community.

Stay tuned for more updates and ways for you to share your input on this exciting initiative.

MIT Dining Roadmap 

Fall ‘25

  • Solutions-oriented campus survey
  • Focus groups
  • Interviews with UA and GSC
  • Space assessments focused on facility condition, operations, and utilization (see Office of Campus Planning website)

Winter/Spring ‘26

  • Define metrics and indicators for success
  • Evaluate business model(s), technologies, and strategies to address root causes and trade-offs
  • Develop a dining roadmap to implement short- and long-term program enhancements

Participating Units:

  • Leads: Office of Campus Planning and the Division of Student Life
  • A Dining Advisory Group that include students, faculty, and staff
  • Vice President for Campus Services and Stewardship
  • Vice President of Finance
  • Provost’s Office 
  • MIT’s Investment Management Company (MITIMCo)
  • Strategy and facility assessment partners Envision Strategies and Perkins&Will