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Everybody Eats
Everybody Eats is a campuswide food assistance initiative to ensure everyone in our Illini community has access to a meal and is provided with adequate nutrition.
Each Everybody Eats program offers a free, no questions asked meal offering. University Housing offers Everybody Eats free meal boxes, located in SDRP and ISR, and the College of ACES provides Bevier Café’s free meal tokens.
University Housing
Supporting our Illini community one meal at a time.
How It Works: Visit one of the two designated Everybody Eats locations and help yourself to the daily hot and cold meal options inside. This is completely free, and no ID is required.
Two Locations:
- Student Dining and Residential Programs building (SDRP): First floor, 301 E. Gregory Drive, Champaign. Found along the north wall mural outside of retail space 57 North.
- Illinois Street Residence Halls: Inside the Terrabyte retail location, west entrance, near the Freestyle machine. Lower Level of ISR, 1010 W. Illinois St., Urbana
Hours: Daily 10:30 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Dining Options: Carry out
Bevier Café
No matter how much or how little you give, everyone has a place at our table.
How It Works: Order from the daily menu, then choose how to pay:
- Pay the suggested price (menu price).
- Pay more (suggested price + a little extra).
- Pay it forward (buy a meal for someone else).
- If you are in need of a meal, use one of the tokens from the jar at the entrance of the café. Order your lunch, give the token to a cashier, and they'll take care of the rest. These tokens are a gift to you from other generous café patrons who want to help.
- Once you get back on your feet, "pay it forward!" Buy tokens to help someone else or make a donation at the register to help to fight food insecurity.
It is through your generosity and kindness that "Everybody Eats" at Bevier Café!
Location: Bevier Hall, Second Floor, 905 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana
Hours: Monday – Friday, 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. when classes are in session
Dining Options: Dine-in, carry out or contactless online ordering.
Additional Information and Resources
Additional campus and local food assistance resources are available, including the Food Assistance and Well-Being Program, which is a shopping-style pantry located in the ARC Instructional Kitchen.
The Illinois App has a tab at the bottom that says Wellness that has additional Wellness Resources.
For questions or referrals to other programs, contact University Housing Dining Services at 217-333-1407 or everybodyeats@illinois.edu.
If you are campus department or organization and are interested in joining Everybody Eats, you can also email everybodyeats@illinois.edu.