A New Direction for Pomona College Dining Services
Pomona College Dining Services is entering an exciting new chapter—one focused on delivering an exceptional dining experience that reflects the values of our community while supporting student success, sustainability, and operational excellence.
As a self-operated dining program, Pomona prepares and serves meals with an emphasis on quality, hospitality, and responsiveness to the needs of our campus. Our new organizational structure is designed to strengthen day-to-day operations while creating greater opportunities for innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Our Priorities
Our work is guided by several key commitments:
- An Outstanding Student Experience – Providing welcoming dining environments, exceptional customer service, and high-quality food that supports student well-being.
- Fresh, Diverse, and Inclusive Menus – Offering nutritious meals that accommodate a wide variety of dietary preferences, cultural traditions, and nutritional needs.
- Sustainability – Expanding environmentally responsible practices through local sourcing, waste reduction, reusable programs, energy conservation, and responsible purchasing.
- Operational Excellence – Investing in our people, facilities, technology, and processes to deliver reliable, efficient, and high-quality service every day.
- Community Engagement – Working collaboratively with students, faculty, and staff to ensure our dining program continues to evolve in response to campus feedback.
Our Leadership Structure
The Dining Services leadership team is organized to provide focused oversight while encouraging collaboration across all dining operations.
General Manager
Provides strategic leadership for the overall dining program, financial stewardship, long-range planning, employee development, and campus partnerships.
Assistant General Manager
Oversees daily operations, coordinates service across all dining locations, supports operational planning, and ensures consistent execution of department goals and service standards.
Chef Managers
Lead culinary operations by developing menus, overseeing food production, maintaining quality and food safety standards, managing purchasing and inventory, and supporting culinary staff development.
Dining Hall Managers
Direct front-of-house operations, supervise dining teams, foster outstanding customer service, and ensure an efficient, welcoming experience for every guest.
Together, this leadership structure creates clear accountability while promoting teamwork across culinary production, dining operations, retail services, catering, and special events.
Looking Ahead
Dining Services is committed to continuous improvement and thoughtful investment in our facilities, people, and programs. Through strategic planning and ongoing collaboration with the campus community, we are building a dining program that is innovative, financially sustainable, environmentally responsible, and centered on the needs of Pomona students.
We invite the campus community to be part of this journey as we continue shaping the future of dining at Pomona College.
Our Dining Halls
- Frary Dining Hall is open Monday – Sunday for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
- Frank Dining Hall is open Sunday – Thursday for continental breakfast, brunch and dinner.
Venue Operating Hours
Hours for all dining halls may vary during winter, spring and summer breaks. Current hours can be found on the menu pages.
Pomona Meal Plan
Pomona College offers an continuous meal plan for on-campus dining. All students living on campus will be on this plan.
Residential students will have a meal plan that will provide expanded service hours and continuous access at Frary, Frank Dining Hall, as well as access to the Coop Fountain and Café 47. Menus have also been expanded to provide more vegan and vegetarian options, as well as choices that address allergy concerns. The Coop Fountain will be the site of the Late-Night Snack Program creating a central hub for student activity, Tuesdays through Thursdays.
If you have additional questions, please contact Jose Martinez, dining services General Manager at jose.martinez@pomona.edu.
Announcements
- Send a Birthday Package to show you care!
- Follow our dining halls on Instagram: Frank Dining Hall Instagram, Frary Dining Hall Instagram