Eat Well Berkeley Restaurants, Retail, and Dining Commons
Healthy food and beverage options are available at most campus restaurants, retail markets, dining commons, and athletic concessions booths. Explore the interactive Eat Well Berkeley Map to find our restaurant and retail partners offering healthy food options on and around campus! Interested in seeing your restaurant or retail operation on the map? Learn more about becoming an Eat Well Berkeley partner.
Eat Well Berkeley Restaurants, Retail, and Dining Commons
We are proud to have partnered with several campus businesses to promote healthier food and beverage options. Under the new Food and Beverage Choices Policy, food service operations, retail markets, convenience shops, and dining commons that are university-operated and third-party tenants with new or renewed leases will be required to offer nutritious and sustainable options, effective January 1, 2019. Restaurants and retail operations not included in the policy are encouraged to become Eat Well Berkeley partners. Click on the restaurant or retail location on the Eat Well Berkeley map to view a menu of their Eat Well Berkeley items.
Participating Restaurants:
- Brown's, located inside the Genetics and Plant Biology Building
- Cafe Think, located inside Chou Hall, Haas School of Business
- Coffee Lab, located inside Hildebrand Hall
- Eateries at Student Union, located inside MLK Jr.
- The Golden Bear Café
- Goldie's, located inside MLK Jr.
- ‘oṭṭoytak, located on the patio adjacent to the Hearst Museum of Anthropology
- Press, located next to Moffitt Library
- Take Eat Easy, located inside Eshleman
- Women's Faculty Club
- Yali's Qualcomm Cafe, located inside Sutardja Dai Hall
Participating Retail Locations:
- Bear Market, next to Cafe 3 at Unit 3
- Berkeley Student Food Collective, 2440 Bancroft Way #102
- Cub Market, Foothill Residence Halls
Participating Dining Commons:
- Cafe 3, Unit 3 Residence Halls
- Clark Kerr, Clark Kerr Campus
- Crossroads, between Unit 1 and Unit 2 Residence Halls
- Foothill, Foothill Residence Halls
- International House
How Can I Participate?
Foodservice and Retail Operators:
Please complete this sample assessment to apply to the Eat Well Berkeley Restaurant Program. The process can be fairly easy and may involve adding a few healthy choices, adjusting your beverage product mix, and/or using simple strategies to promote the healthier choice. Email your completed assessment to Kim Guess, RD at kguess@berkeley.edu.
You will receive feedback on your assessment and if improvements are needed, you can make changes and submit the assessment again. You may choose to use our Eat Well Berkeley icon to label healthy items that meet our criteria on your menu (must be approved by our dietitian). You may also choose to have a nutrition consultation.
Once the assessment reaches a satisfactory level, you will receive promotional materials to display in your restaurant or retail market and we will list your business on our webpage!
If you would like to use Eat Well Berkeley labeling on the healthy items on your menu, our dietitian will work with you to determine which items meet our standards. Menu items may only be marked with our checkmark once they are approved by our dietitian. If you add new items to your menu or have a new seasonal menu, you must get approval from our dietitian before adding the check mark label.
Customers:
As students, staff, faculty, and visitors, we can also help make our campus environment healthier.
- Look for healthy choices on campus. Support businesses that offer healthy options.
- Give feedback to the vendor
- Give feedback to us
For Participating Eat Well Berkeley Restaurants
To obtain approval for new Eat Well Berkeley menu items, submit the item name and description to Kim Guess, RD at kguess@berkeley.edu with the subject line "EWB menu item approval." Please specify the restaurant name if not apparent. You can click here to review our Nutrition Standards.
Why Become an Eat Well Berkeley Partner?
If you are a university-run restaurant or retail market, or a third-party lease on campus, you are required to comply with the Food & Beverage Choices Policy. Once you are in compliance, you will automatically become an Eat Well Berkeley partner and receive all the benefits!
If you are not required to comply with the policy (independent campus restaurants without a lease, off-campus restaurants, etc.), you can voluntarily participate. We use the same assessment as the one we use for restaurants included in the policy.
Benefits
- Promotion on this webpage
- Competitive advantage over non-Eat Well Berkeley businesses
- Signage to post in your location
Window Sticker and receive a new year sticker for each year you participate.
Register/Point of Sale Sign 
Handouts and holders to be displayed near the point of sale