Blog Topic: Residential Dining Services

Engaging Gauchos through Instagram Contests

Snap a picture, upload and tag @ucsbresdining! It’s just that easy for our Gaucho patrons to engage and demonstrate their enthusiasm for our food and all things dining. Every quarter, the dining marketing team sponsors an Instagram contest and selects a winning image based on the theme. Previous contests have included: capture the new Portola building (inside or outside), post a delicious UCSB waffle picture, take a pic of your most appetizing dish/food from the dining commons, and more.

Editor's Note: In one of our lively Homefront brainstorming meetings, Mark Rousseau told us about Residential Dining Services sending their employees' work shoes to Africa to be reused, and Danielle Reed regaled us with charming stories of her time spent in Africa. We realized they were sharing different threads of the same overall story, so we've combined them here. Keep reading and enjoy!

Residential Dining Going the Extra Step

Meeting the needs of our hungry dining patrons, Residential Dining Services launched a new mobile- and user-friendly site that displays interactive menus. By saving the address on any smartphone or selecting the ‘Interactive Menu’ link from dining’s ‘Menus’ page, diners will have a quicker and more effective way to view menu options. Menus can be viewed for each of the dining commons up to a week in advance or can be viewed by the day’s meal periods.

Residential Dining Instagram Contest