The Hard Knox Café is the all-you-care-to-eat café with menus that change daily in Seymour Union. In the center of the café sits an expansive salad bar with adjacent grill, comfort, and globally inspired stations. The café has something for everyone.
The Food
Dining services at Knox offers you a variety of dining options.
Dining Services continuously offers new products, menus, and services with one goal in mind: customer satisfaction.
Knox's various venues provide continuous service from 7:30 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. to accommodate any schedule. With five residential plans providing varying levels of meals, Dining Dollars, and two non-residential plans each providing a specific number of meals, we are sure to have a plan that fits your lifestyle.
Here's what we say about the food.
- It's good!
- It's as local and organic and sustainable as is humanly possible. We run an aggressive composting program, we go trayless, and a lot of our produce comes from local farms, including our own student-run Knox Farm.
- It's student-inspired. Our students come from around the world—so we make recipes from around the world. Some of our students are vegan, or vegetarian, or on restricted diets—so we make recipes to meet their needs.
- It's got a certain Knox character to it. We're thinking of cookouts on the patio of the Gizmo, Student Senate popcorn, the student recipe swap, and—very important—the Dessert Cave.
Dining Locations
Dining is available in the Hard Knox Cafe and Gizmo. Snacks and other convenience items are available in the Outpost and Knox Shop.
The historic Gizmo, our campus short-order restaurant, was named in the late 1940s by students who were World War II veterans, and remains a popular gathering place for students, faculty, and staff. The Gizmo Patio, once used as an outdoor skating rink, was transformed into brick patio, and furnished with chairs and tables for outdoor seating. The menu features fast-casual favorites such as cheeseburgers, pulled pork sandwiches, all-day breakfast burritos, and French fries, as well as a daily special and a selection of grab n’ go items.
Our campus convenience store is open seven days a week while classes are in session and is centrally located in Post Hall Lobby. The store offers a wide variety of items based on customized needs of the college community. Traditional convenience store items such as beverages, snack items, grocery staples, toiletries, and general merchandise are offered along with grab n’ go dining options.
The Campus Store is open Monday through Friday and is conveniently located on the lower level of Seymour Union. In addition to Knox College apparel and studying essentials, the store offers a selection of grab n’ go items, groceries, snacks, beverages, and toiletries.