Moving forward from backlash, Pitt Eats offers new additions this semester 

By Bridget Pohl, Staff Writer • January 21, 2025

After facing scrutiny last semester over food cleanliness, Pitt Eats is ready to usher in a new year with more student accommodations and initiatives. Despite some locations being closed at the beginning of the semester, the newly renovated Eatery has much more in store for students this spring.

‘It is literally DIY your own meal’: Students with dietary restrictions struggle finding food on campus

By Emily Handrahan, Staff Writer • October 27, 2023

Eating on campus is often trickier for students with allergies or dietary restrictions like Jeremy Matloub, a first-year computer science major who is lactose intolerant. Oftentimes, he gives up when trying to find quality foods that meet his needs.

Students and Oakland businesses reflect on Pitt’s dining changes

By Betul Tuncer, Staff Writer • February 8, 2021

The University allocated 25% of each student's dining dollars to 27 off-campus dining locations around the Oakland area under its new meal plans at the start of last semester. The vendors include Fuel and Fuddle, CHiKN, The Porch at Schenley and many more.

Pitt dining workers struggling with no pay after mass layoffs

By Neena Hagen, Senior Staff Writer • March 31, 2020

Sodexo, the University’s dining contractor of 29 years, laid off a majority of its 400 to 500 workers without pay over spring break, when Pitt adjusted its dining services due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pitt to temporarily shutter dining halls as classes move online

By Jon Moss, News Editor • March 11, 2020

Pitt Dining will temporarily shutter both dining halls, Market Central and The Perch at Sutherland Hall, and adjust the operating hours of several other campus eateries.

The inside scoop on the dining contract negotiation process

By Jon Moss, News Editor • January 23, 2020

Pitt Dining will have to make a decision in the next few months — not on a menu, but on who gets to make the menus.

ACHD finds one high-risk health code violation at Perch

By Emily Wolfe, News Editor • September 24, 2019

The Allegheny County Health Department visited The Perch at Sutherland Hall Monday for its first inspection in close to a year, citing the dining hall for one high-risk health code violation and six low-risk violations.