Higher Education
Better dining programs that reflect your culture.
Genuine Foods’ on-site foodservice management programs bring scratch-made, culturally-relevant, mouthwatering meal options to colleges and universities. We emphasize fresh ingredients, seasonal meals, regional supplier relationships, sustainable business practices and menus that celebrate your campus community and its cultures—all at a refreshingly competitive price. Our foodservice management offers full-service operational support to clients, including on-site training and management teams, transition planning, and adaptable and customizable solutions that meet your tastes and thrill your students, faculty and staff.
GENUINE’S ADVANTAGES:
Innovative, customizable, branded concepts:
From main cafeteria concepts to coffee shops and cafes to all-day or late-night dining options, we have the capacity to take over the operations of your existing branded restaurant/cafe concepts or create new dining experiences for your campus. Working alongside clients, together we create custom dining concepts that appeal to your student body and drive revenue.
Local purchasing:
Whereas traditional foodservice management companies often try to make money both on you and from vendors through rebates, we operate much differently. Genuine Foods has a stringent no-rebate/no-kickbacks from our suppliers. All of our purchasing decisions are made in the best interest of the meal program. But cost never compromises quality. We’ve proven time and again it’s possible to provide high-quality meals and service to our clients at a reasonable price so we make our practices completely transparent. From our perspective, the sharing of successes and lessons learned as an integral aspect of our partnership.
Exceptional dining experiences:
This isn’t the dorm food you remember. It’s so much better, because we approach every menu with the same approach as restaurant chefs do: Through taste, presentation and quality sourcing. Understanding people eat with their eyes as much as their mouths, our menus showcase whole foods and minimally processed ingredients. Our dishes look so good your students can’t wait to eat them.
Sustainable, equitable business practices:
Sustainability informs all aspects of our operations, from local sourcing and supplier relationships to minimizing food waste through thoughtful menu design and portioning. In addition, our dedication to equitable hiring practices and food justice ensures a consistent focus on providing access to high quality food and business opportunities for communities who disproportionately experience the effects of systemic racism.
“Communication and food presentation are both great! More of our students are choosing to eat school meals.”
- New Orleans-area customer
Promotional Materials
We offer a large selection of promotional materials from monthly menus and special meal events to special holiday flyers and student reminder posters. This can increase participation in food programs and help students and staff plan their food in advance. Take a look at a handful of examples below that show a range of collateral materials that can be customized and branded for your school.
Branded Concepts
Genuine Foods designs custom dining concepts that reflect your campus culture and celebrate your local tastes and traditions. Depending on your campus needs, our dining concepts can include fast-casual, coffee house, branded cafeteria stations, regional specialties, catering, grab-and-go, health and beauty, and more. And, where opportunities exist, we also partner with your regional celebrity chefs or other notable culinary brands to integrate our branded concepts into your community. Regardless of the concept, every menu showcases whole foods, local ingredients and minimally processed ingredients – it’s our Genuine way. Check out a sampling of our higher education dining and restaurant concepts.
