The Food & Dining team offers a full catering service for conferences and events, from sandwiches to fork buffets and full dining to barbecues.
Excellent food during an event is important. Where possible, the team strives to use a selection of locally sourced, traceable, and sustainable ingredients, to showcase the best produce.
Catering can be delivered and served almost anywhere on campus for various events, from academic conferences to team away days. As well as in-house catering, delegates and visitors can also access food and drink outlets on campus.
Make a Bookingo Chocolate twist
o Cranberry twist
o Cinnamon swirl
o Custard extravagant
Simple sandwiches, crisps, piece of fruit
Sandwiches plus two items of the day, vegetable crisps
Freshly baked breads to include baguettes plus two items of the day, vegetable crisps £8.95
Served with two salads of the day and fresh garden salad
Hot Lunch Menus are fully served by a member of the team. A surcharge will be made for numbers below 20 as both space and power are required for a hotplate.
Open every term-time weekday, University staff and visitors can use the Business Lounge as a place to work, network, and enjoy breakfast and lunch.
The Business Lounge
The University is committed to delivering an exciting choice of tasty, convenient, nutritional and sustainable food at a range of prices to enhance the student, staff and visitor experience. This policy covers all food outlets and food served on the University campus.
We follow five key principles:
To support continuous improvement in each of these five principles, we will in the 2024/25 academic year implement the following actions:
1. Choice
2. Safe
3. Price Range
4. Supply Chain
5. Engagement
The Food & Dining Team at Lancaster University is committed to delivering an exciting variety of food to enhance the student, staff, and visitor experience. We aim to produce nutritionally balanced, tasty, sustainable, and affordable food for the University community, making healthy eating easier.
We focus on producing seasonal menus for catered accommodation, conferencing, and events using fresh and locally sourced produce.
We aim to purchase our fresh ingredients from local suppliers to make the most of the best produce Lancashire and the Northwest region have to offer, following the customer’s desire for information about the provenance of their food and the growing trend for plant-based menus. To achieve these aims the University will adopt the following principles:
With full Allergen Accreditation across campus, suitable meals are always provided for all 14 allergens and other main food intolerances.
Please email eat@lancaster.ac.uk, or phone 01524 593260.
To place an order on behalf of an external company, contact us for support with issuing invoices.
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Bookings can be made Monday to Friday, 8am-7pm, on the Spoonfed website.
To order a delivery outside of the normal opening hours, please contact the Food & Dining team via email eat@lancaster.ac.uk to discuss alternative arrangements.
A cost code is required to make internal Food & Dining bookings.
If making a booking on behalf of an external customer, please contact the Food & Dining team via email eat@lancaster.ac.uk to arrange an invoice.
You can log into your profile from the top right-hand corner of the Spoonfed website.
Your booking can be cancelled through your customer profile on the Spoonfed website by clicking on the bin symbol.
Cancellation charges:
Your booking can be edited through your customer profile on the Spoonfed website by clicking on the pencil symbol.
Your booking can be repeated through your customer profile on the Spoonfed website by clicking on the repeat tab.
All prices are per person unless stated otherwise.
The minimum delivery fee is £10.
Please contact the Food & Dining team via email eat@lancaster.ac.uk to discuss alternative possibilities. Some menus will be subject to a small supplement.
You can add additional emails to your customer profile and confirmation will be sent to these email addresses.
Please specify the dietary requirements in the special requirements box once your order has been placed or next to individual items.
The Food & Dining team requires two full working days' notice. For example, orders for a Wednesday should be placed by Friday at the latest.
If a booking is made with less than two full working days' notice, a 20% additional charge will be added.
Jugs of tap water are available to add to your order for a small fee of £3. A jug of water is provided with 10 glasses.
The fee covers the cost of delivery, collection, and washing of the glasses. For orders that already include orange juice, tap water can be added for no additional cost. In this instance, please reference your booking number to the Food & Dining team via email eat@lancaster.ac.uk to waive the fee for additional tap water.
Waiving the cost of tap water can be discussed on a booking-by-booking basis for orders of substantial sizes.
These items are available to hire at a cost and as stock levels allow. Please contact the Food & Dining team via email eat@lancaster.ac.uk to discuss.
Since 2020, an External Caterers Policy has been in place at the University:
“The University has taken the decision to restrict the use of catering on campus to only booked and delivered via University Hospitality. Whilst the majority of catering on campus is already undertaken by the Hospitality team, they will be very happy to discuss a range of options and personalisation to enable dietary, cultural, and budgetary needs are met.”
Please discuss your requirements with the Food & Dining team directly via email eat@lancaster.ac.uk, and if they cannot be met, you will require an approval email to add to your purchase order request.
Menus come with the amount of crockery ordered, for example; tea and coffee for 10 people will receive 10 mugs.
Additional items of crockery, glassware and cutlery, on any order will be charged on an individual basis of 50p per item.
Please place catering orders two full working days in advance.
Any bookings made less than one full working day in advance will have a 20% surcharge applied.
Please note all prices quoted in the menus are per person, unless otherwise stated.
If you wish to cancel a booking please contact the Food & Dining team via email eat@lancaster.ac.uk or telephone 01524 593260.
Please note, a charge may be required for cancellation of a booking within the two days working notice period.
Crockery and glass hire is 50p per item.
Glasses for jugs of tap water are charged at 50p per glass.
If staff are required for set up, a serving and clearing charge of £18 per hour is added.
Any orders being delivered to the following buildings may be denied or will be supplied with disposables instead of crockery due to health and safety reasons;
