USC HOSPITALITY
USC Hospitality is a large and dynamic organization known for creating unique and innovative self-operated food concepts and serving an extraordinary breadth of customer bases on two campuses. The organization consists of over thirty-nine retail and residential locations and is divided into three operations; Retail Sales, Residential Dining, and Special Events and Catering. USC Hospitality also delivers special orders on campus, operates a specialty café at the California Natural History Museum, a faculty club at Health Sciences Campus, and three excellent full-service restaurants off-campus.
Retail Sales encompasses three large food courts, seven specialty cafes, several convenience stores, an original pizza parlor and three signature restaurants. The food courts feature franchises with California Pizza Kitchen, Daphne’s Greek Café, Wahoo’s Fish Taco, Panda Express, Baja Fresh, Carl’s Jr., Starbucks, and Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. The food courts also house several popular self-created and self-operated eateries serving made-to-order Italian dishes, fresh sushi, and Chinese wok fare. USC Hospitality has also partnered with a Los Angeles chef to bring his popular Lemonade concept to the new Ronald Tutor Campus Center. USC Hospitality’s restaurants are high-concept, full-service dining experiences that are popular destinations for guests from all over Los Angeles.
USC Hospitality’s premiere Residential Dining program supports approximately 4,400 participants on meal plans including 1,100 on limited community plans, suited for commuter students and residential life staff plans. There are two primary residential dining venues on the main campus, both of which are designed around creating a rich and interactive residential living experience for USC students. Specialty meals, themed events nights, cooking demonstrations, and faculty talks are among the many events the Residential Dining team produces in their venues.
Special Events and Catering supports two event facilities on campus; USC’s famous Town and Gown property and the Davidson Continuing Education Conferencing Center (DCECC). The Town and Gown dining room can accommodate 550 guests for formal sit-down dinners and 1,500 guests for receptions, and it captures the warm ambiance and formal elegance often reserved for small restaurants, with its French doors, arched ceilings, Schoenbeck chandeliers, and grand piano. The DCECC is geared towards executive conferences and leadership programs. All meeting facilities are IACC approved and are tastefully and comfortably appointed and equipped with the latest in audio-visual capabilities.