Food
Cafeteria Meals
The first on-campus cafeteria meal is Wednesday evening dinner, and the last meal is Sunday at noon. Meal times are:
Breakfast: 7:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m.
Lunch: 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. (Sunday 12:00 noon–1:00 p.m.)
Dinner: 6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.
Rates for cafeteria meals in 2008 were $8.00 for breakfast, $9.75 for lunch, and $12.00 for dinner. Tickets for cafeteria meals can be purchased as a part of Congress registration.
All cafeteria meals are served in the dining hall of Goldsworth Valley II; cafeteria lines enter the dining area from both the Harvey-Garneau and Eicher-LeFevre sides of the complex.
Gatehouse Café
The Gatehouse Café in the Exhibits Hall in Valley III provides sandwiches, soup, salad, fruit, bagels, muffins, chips, beverages, and assorted snacks. The Café hours are:
Wednesday: 2:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Thursday–Friday: 8:00 a.m.–6:30 p.m.
Saturday: 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Sunday: 8:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Bernhard Center Café
The Bernhard Center Café offers a full selection of beverages and deli sandwiches, bagels, fresh fruits, salads, nachos, soft pretzels, and snack foods and candy. Health and beauty items and sundries are also available. Hot food is served:
Thursday–Friday: 7:30-10:00 a.m. (breakfast)
Thursday–Saturday: 11:15 a.m.-1:30 p.m. (lunch)
Mug Shots
Specialty coffees and teas and assorted pastries
are sold at Mug Shots inside Britton-Hadley Hall (Valley I):
Thursday–Saturday: 7:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Sunday: 7:30 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Area Restaurants
Lists of Kalamazoo area restaurants, some within walking distance of Congress locations, are available at registration. Congress weekend tends to be high school prom weekend, so do make reservations in advance, especially for large groups.
Click here for the Kalamazoo County Convention & Visitors Bureau at-a-glance guide to restaurants.
Catering
WMU Catering and Fetzer Center Catering offer arrangements for receptions and meals; to arrange for a catered event on campus during the Congress, complete the Meeting/Reception Reservation Form, available on the Congress Web site in July (deadline: October 1). With sufficient prior notice, the Radisson Plaza Hotel also can arrange catering for your group; call Todd Jacobs at 269-226-3164.
Food and beverages (including, but not limited to, alcoholic beverages) consumed at Congress events on the WMU campus must be provided by WMU Catering, Fetzer Center Catering, or the Medieval Institute. Food and beverages purchased from outside vendors may not be brought into Congress meeting rooms in the Goldsworth Valley dormitories, the Bernhard Center, or the Fetzer Center at any time. Should food or drink purchased outside of the Fetzer Center be brought into the Fetzer Center, it will be confiscated and left at the front desk for pick up upon departure from the building.
Photographs:
- Congress attendees eating in the cafeteria
- Bernhard Center café
- Mug Shots coffee shop