For most students, grabbing a meal on campus can be as simple as walking into the Brodhead Center and choosing from one of the 13 dining venues. However, for students with religious dining accommodations, finding food options that align with their diet is not always straightforward.
Duke Dining offers both kosher and halal options at dining locations across campus. While the Freeman Center Café caters to a wide range of dietary options for students observing kosher, the Center for Muslim Life provides a list of restaurants near campus with halal options, and Yalla, an on-campus food truck, serves Mediterranean cuisine that is both halal and kosher. Duke Dining also operates NetNutrition, an online tool to aid students in filtering menu items from on-campus eateries to meet their nutritional goals and dietary restrictions.
Students expressed generally positive sentiments about the University’s ability to meet their dining requirements, saying that Duke officials were largely attentive to their needs, although offerings could be limited in some cases…