A variety of vegan and vegetarian options can be found throughout USC Hospitality venues, including Residential Dining venues, USC Village Dining Hall, Parkside and Everybody’s Kitchen. All vegan and vegetarian menu items in Residential Dining are labeled.

Halal: Tutor Café offers Katora Indian cuisine, which is halal friendly. Dining Dollars and credit/debit cards are accepted here. The Residential Dining Halls serve a variety of dishes with halal friendly ingredients and are labeled on the online menus/menu boards. For more information please view the ‘Halal Friendly Dining at USC’ document at https://hospitality.usc.edu/dietitian/ .

Kosher: The USC Village Dining Hall offers pre-packaged Glatt kosher meals and Tablet K vegan/vegetarian kosher meals as part of the meal plan. Grab n’ Go Kosher items are also available at Seeds Marketplace and Trojan Grounds.  Please contact the Registered Dietitian for more information. https://hospitality.usc.edu/ask-the-dietician/

Please contact our Registered Dietitian for questions regarding ingredients by visiting: https://hospitality.usc.edu/ask-the-dietitian/

Yes, all guests are welcome to eat at Parkside Grill, the USC Village Dining Hall at the USC Village and Everybody’s Kitchen. Dining dollars, meal swipes, discretionary, credit/debit cards are accepted.

Breakfast: $15.99

Lunch: $18.99

Dinner: $19.99

Style of service is all-you-care-to-eat once you enter the facility.

If eating-in at any of the three dining halls, food is self-serve, all-you-care-to-eat.

All 3 of our Residential Dining Halls are open 7 days per week. Please visit the hours of operations page for business hours https://hospitality.usc.edu/hours-of-operation/

Yes! You may use a Residential Meal Swipe for 1 to-go meal per day on the unlimited meal plans. Those on plans with a fixed number of meal swipes, or alotted amount of Dining Dollars, may use as many of their swipes or dollars as they wish for to-go meals. Tell the cashier that you would like a to-go meal. Fill up your container, close it, and exit the facility. We are currently offering compostable to-go containers, but will be transitioning to a new reusable program for both Residential Dining and the Retail Cafes during the Fall 2025 semester.  Dining Dollars, Discretionary Dollars, and credit/debit may also be used to purchase a to-go meal.

Unlimited Meal Swipes as part of the Cardinal plan may be used at EVK, Parkside and the USC Village Dining Hall. The Cardinal Plan two weekly meal swipes may be used on special combo meals at Trojan Grounds and most locations at the Ronald Tutor Campus Center, with the exception of Panda Express. Meal Swipes as part of the Flex120 plan may be used on any of the options just described.

Dining Dollars are accepted at all USC Hospitality retail cafes located on campus. Dining Dollars are also accepted at Illy and Panda Express over at the HSC campus.

The apartment plan only provided meals for a small portion of the semester. The new Flex120 plan provides a better transition with access to meals throughout the semester.

The Flex120 Plan was designed to provide a minimum of 1 meal a day throughout the semester. It also includes $150 Dining Dollars. If you would like to purchase additional meals, you can upgrade your plan to the Cardinal or Trojan Plan, or buy Dining Dollar blocks of $250 or $500 at a 10% discount via USCard.

Unlike the old apartment plan, meal swipes can be used at the Residential Dining halls (dine in or to go) and at almost all venues at the Ronald Tutor Campus Center and Trojan Grounds, to provide more flexibility. You get to choose where you use those 120 swipes!  Cafe items may be ordered through our Campus Dining mobile app for added convenience.

Sophomores, juniors, and seniors living in USC Housing apartments must have the Flex120 plan at a minimum, which consists of 120 meal swipes and $150 dining dollars per semester. The Flex120 plan was designed to give you access to at least 1 full nutritious meal a day. It does not provide you with all meals you will eat during the semester, so you can still use your kitchen for the other meals you eat during the day.These meal swipes and dining dollars will be invaluable to you around midterms, finals, and project times when you just don’t have time to cook. We know that the demands of college are stressful! We are here to take a little of the stress off your plate by nourishing you so you can concentrate on your studies.

The Trojan Plan offers a declining balance plan where the cash value of meals is deducted from a large bank of Dining Dollars. These Dining Dollars may be used at any on-campus quick service cafe, coffee shop, or dining hall operated by USC Hospitality. If a student is using Dining Dollars to pay for entry to a dining hall, the amount deducted is $15.99 for breakfast, $18.99 for lunch, and $19.99 for dinner.

All three dining halls participate in EcoMondays, in which all menus are red meat free.  Proteins included are poultry, seafood, vegan and vegetarian options. Please check the online menus to see what is being served on the day of your visit: https://hospitality.usc.edu/residential-dining-menus/

No, you are not locked into the same meal plan for the entire school year. If you would like to change to a different plan in the Spring, you are welcome to do so. Please be mindful of the deadlines to make changes during each semester. The Meal Plan change deadline for Fall 2025 is September 3rd and the deadline for Spring 2026 is January 22rd. Meal Plan changes can be made online via the USCard website at mycard.usc.edu/.

Dining Dollars are funds attached to the Trojan, Flex120, and Community Meal Plans, or as part of separate Dining Dollar Blocks, and are only used at USC Hospitality venues that do not serve alcohol. Dining Dollar Blocks come with a 10% discount at the time of purchase. Discretionary Dollars are not part of a meal plan and are simply your own funds that may be added to your USCard via the USCard website at any time. They can be used for dining at any USC Hospitality location, the USC Bookstore and many other places on campus. Please see this complete list at https://mycard.usc.edu/accepted-locations/.

Dining Dollars that are attached to the Trojan Plan, Flex120 Plan, and Dining Dollar Blocks do not roll over and are not refunded. However, students may choose to donate any unused Dining Dollars to a USC program that assists food insecure USC students.

Yes! Any student may purchase a $250 or $500 Dining Dollar Block at a 10% discount at any time during the semester. Please note that these Dining Dollars do not roll over from semester to semester.

Absolutely! At the end of each semester, we provide an opportunity to donate Dining Dollars to USC Student Basic Needs programs that support USC students experiencing food insecurity.  You may donate unused Dining Dollars directly on the Campus Dining mobile ordering app about 2 weeks prior to the end of the Fall and Spring semesters.

Yes! You may choose to purchase any meal plan or a block of $250 or $500 Dining Dollars. Please visit the USCard website to purchase a meal plan http://mycard.usc.edu/

The only location where Dining Dollars, Residential Meal Swipes, and Discretionary Dollars are accepted at the USC Village is at the USC Village Dining Hall. Target, Trader Joe’s, FedEx and all of the cafes at the Village are independent and not operated by USC. Some of the cafes do accept Discretionary dollars. Please visit the USCard website for a full list of locations: https://mycard.usc.edu/accepted-locations/

With the USC Campus Dining mobile ordering app, guests are able to order and pay for food on the app and simply pick it up when it is ready, without having to wait in line. Look for “Transact mobile ordering” in the Apple store or Google Play and sign up with your USC email address.

Yes, please contact the Student Basic Needs office at basicneeds@usc.edu Their website is: https://studentbasicneeds.usc.edu/

Contact hospsys@usc.edu provide the last 4 digits of credit card, date and transaction amount

Yes, in our retail cafes, take-out packaging including bowls, cups, plates and service ware are made from a variety of plant-based materials and are compostable.  Our Residential Dining Halls will be starting the semester with compostable to-go containers until we transition to our new resusable container program during the Fall 2025 semester.

Yes, USC Hospitality takes achieving the Zero Waste Initiative seriously; actively working to reduce single use plastics with our packaging; working with our vendors (i.e., coke and others) on reducing single use plastic bottles; assessing and reducing our carbon footprint within our supply chain and sustainable food purchases.

Yes, USC Hospitality partners with the St. Francis Center as the official food rescue partner. They recover prepared food daily from all dining halls, special events and our University Club.

Our kitchen stewards place pre and post-consumer food waste in our onsite composting bins, which are later picked up by our city franchised waste hauler. The hauler then transports to City permitted composting facilities.

Yes, bring your clean, reusable mug to any of the following locations and receive $0.10 off of your beverage: Starbucks at Trojan Grounds, Coffee Bean & Tea leaf, Tutor Hall Café, Cafe Annenberg, Literatea, Popovich, and Law Cafe

There is metered parking on the street in front of the Lab and there is also parking available at the USC Hotel parking available without fee (2 Hour Maximum) when mentioning the Lab at the parking booth.

We accept all major credit cards except for Discover.

Yes, for further information such as pricing, availability and options, please email: private.events@usc.edu or call our main line at 213-740-5956

Yes, of course. However we do ask that anyone not yet of 21 years of age do not sit at our bar top. We will happily get you a table.

Enter through the front drive way of USC Hotel, and proceed until the end of drive way. Make a right to enter our parking structure (PS2). The structure is located off Figueroa between Jefferson and Exposition.

No, Dining Dollars are only accepted at USC Hospitality locations on campus. we currently only accept Credit Card, Internal Requisition, or Discretionary Cards.

Yes , please contact us at: 213 -743-2077.

We deliver to the USC campus area and The Row area.

For information about private events, please contact private.events@usc.edu

You can contact our security department at the USC Hotel 213-748-4141 and ask to be transferred to our lost and found.

You can call the USC hotel @ 213-748-4141 and ask to be transferred to our accounting department.

Our parking structure is run by USC transportation. The normal charge is $20.00 and please note rate may change for special events.