Dining & Menus

Smith College Dining Services is committed to providing outstanding customer service and the highest quality food to all students and guests. We embrace Smith’s traditions while keeping current with global dining trends. We support our community by providing flexibility and variety, accommodating dietary requirements, and sourcing food from local farms and businesses. We strive to reduce food waste and use resources with sustainability in mind.

On the Menu

Whether you’re perusing brunch options or scoping out a specific dining hall’s offerings, you can find them here quickly.

“You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces—just good food from fresh ingredients.”
Julia Child ’34

Explore Dining Services

Work for Dining Services

Looking for a great job? Smith College Dining Services is one of the largest student employers on campus offering a variety of positions that can work with your hectic schedule. With 15 dining locations, the Campus Center Café and our catering department, we have many shifts available for student worker jobs.

What We Offer

Employment with Dining Services offers competitive wages, work schedules tailored to fit your busy lifestyle and classes, convenient locations throughout campus, the chance to meet people and make friends, on-the-job training, and various shifts (including nights and weekends). Upperclass students can work up to 10 hours per week; first-year students may work up to eight hours per week.

With Dining Services you will be working in a positive, team-oriented environment. We give preference to first-year students and first-year transfer students on financial aid. Please refer to Student Employment for policies for returning students.

Job Descriptions

Maintains and monitors assigned dish pantry area and dining room to ensure that dishes are properly stocked at all times. Washes all dishes, glasses and tableware, including scraping, sorting and stacking dishes. Cleans and maintains dish machines as needed. Works alongside other student workers to ensure that safe and sanitary work habits prevail. Checks with dining staff to ensure all assignments are being completed and completes any other tasks assigned.

Cleans and sanitizes pots and pans used in food production. Maintains the pot sink area by keeping the three-compartment sink filled with clean water (changed as needed), fills sinks with sanitizing solution and dries and puts away all pots and pans in the correct location. Works with kitchen staff to ensure that safe and sanitary work habits prevail.

Checks with dining staff to ensure all assignments are being completed and completes any other tasks assigned.

Ensures that all dining room guests are properly checked in using the OneCard system. Welcomes guests and examines OneCards to verify customer identification. Collects guest meal money as needed. Records meal counts accurately. Strives to provide outstanding customer service. Assists the dining room coordinator in any assignments as needed, including wiping tables, washing dishes, refilling food and cleaning. Works with kitchen staff to ensure that safe and sanitary work habits prevail. Checks with dining staff to ensure all assignments are being completed and completes any other tasks assigned.

Assists the dining room coordinator in keeping the serving lines stocked with food, dishware and other supplies. Helps with the set-up and breakdown of the serving lines. Assists in any assignments as needed, including wiping tables, washing dishes, refilling food and cleaning. Strives to provide outstanding customer service. Works with kitchen staff to ensure that safe and sanitary work habits prevail. Checks with dining staff to ensure all assignments are being completed and completes any other tasks assigned.

For those students looking for spot jobs, the catering department might be just the fit for you. Working in catering is fast-paced and fun; positions include banquet servers, kitchen preps, event servers and many other exciting offerings.

The catering department is based out of the Wilson kitchen, but jobs take place all over campus.

If you are interested in working in Catering, please reach out to Carly Heath, Catering Manager at cheath@smith.edu or call our Main Office- 413-585-2300. 

For those students who enjoy working directly with customers in a retail environment, the Café offers a variety of jobs, which include front-of-the-house positions, catering, prepping food and setting up events.

If you are interested in working at the Campus Center Café or Compass Café, please reach out to Jeremy Bonios, Retail Managers at jbonios@smith.edu or call our Main Office- 413-585-2300.

How to Apply

If you are interested in working for Dining Services during the academic year:

  • Look for open positions on Workday (Note: First years may apply after the first day of classes), or
  • Contact the student work coordinator of the dining facility where you would like to work (see below), or
  • Speak with one of our dining room staff to see if there are any openings.

The Dining Services catering department and the café have a wide variety of spot jobs as well. Call x2300 for information.

For other concerns or questions regarding Dining Service employment, contact Rick Rubin at 413-585-2318 or email rrubin@smith.edu.

Student Employment Agreement (PDF)

Important Information for First-Year Students

First-year students are welcome to apply for dining shifts. Please carefully read the special instructions below. If you have questions, please contact Rick Rubin at 413-585-2318 or rrubin@smith.edu. You may also contact one of the student work coordinators.

Information on Signing up for Dining Shifts for First-Year Students on Work Study

Coordinators & Managers

Dine Out, On Campus

With two cafés on campus—one in the Campus Center and the other in Neilson Library—it’s easy to step out for a coffee or a quick bite to eat without even needing to leave the Grécourt Gates.

The interior of the Campus Center Cafe.
The window to the Compass.
Two students sitting outside of the Campus Center.
Barista making coffee in the Compass cafe.
People eating at the Campus Center cafe.