--- title: "What You Need to Know in Fall 2022: Dining Services" date: 2022-08-29T05:30:00-04:00 author: University of Maryland canonical_url: "https://today.umd.edu/what-you-need-to-know-in-fall-2022-dining-services" section: Articles --- # What You Need to Know in Fall 2022: Dining Services *August 29, 2022* — by [Annie Krakower](/author/annie-krakower) > New Dining Hall Headlines a Menu of Updates for Hungry Terps *Dining Services Yahentamitsi 08162022 JC 1973 1920x1080 — Cooks Shelton Harrington (left), Ekramul Huq and Christina Brackins prep meals in Yahentamitsi, UMD’s first new dining hall built in nearly 50 years.* Terps ready to dig into the fall semester will find a new main course on the menu of on-campus dining locations. Yahentamitsi, meaning “a place to go to eat” in the Algonquian language spoken by the Piscataway people, is debuting as the University of Maryland’s first new dining hall built in nearly 50 years. Part of the Heritage Community, which also includes Pyon-Chen and the newly opened Johnson-Whittle residence halls, the 60,000-square-foot Yahentamitsi replaces the recently closed North Campus Dining Hall (aka The Diner). The facility is just one of the updates Dining Services has cooked up around campus for the new semester. Here’s what you need to know: ## Food With a View *Exterior of Yahentamitsi dining hall* ## Updates From North to South Dining Services also freshened up UMD’s other two dining halls. 251 North patrons will find updated food stations, like a smash burger area, a Buffalo mac ‘n’ cheese bar, a build-your-own burrito and taco grill, a grain bowl station and a Maryland Dairy outpost for handcrafted, campus-themed ice cream. At the South Campus Dining Hall, Dining Services reorganized the gazebo dining room and transformed one of the upper rooms into a lounge area with soft seating. ## Drop in ‘Anytime’ All three dining halls will offer “Anytime Dining,” remaining open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. for students to choose all they care to eat. So while there won’t be a takeout option, implemented during peak COVID-19, students can come to a dining hall any number of times per day for dine-in experiences, and fresh, portable food is available at cafés and convenience shops around campus. And Dining Services is “continuing to monitor current protocols to ensure food safety,” Hipple said. Dining halls have handwashing and sanitizing stations, and a regular rotation of serving utensils helps ensure cleanliness. ## Food Courts and Cafés Beyond the dining halls, 10 campus cafés broaden options further this fall, including a new offering in the E.A. Fernandez IDEA (Innovate, Design and Engineer for America) Factory, a high-tech hub for research and innovation that opened earlier this year. Called IDEA Central, the eatery features healthy options like grain bowls, yogurt parfaits and custom salads. Terps can enjoy their selections out on the second-floor patio. Also new since last spring is the South Campus Market’s café and late-night grill, open until midnight with fried fare like chicken tenders, wings and fries. Dining Services is planning a similar grill on North Campus to open sometime in the spring. At the Stamp Student Union, pizza lovers can now grab a custom pie at Union Pizza, which opened this summer and has similar artisanal-pie vibes to MOD or Blaze Pizza, Hipple said. And for those wondering about the much-anticipated Panera Bread, that’s slated to open sometime in the spring. ## Nutrition Info at Your Fingertips Dining Services has made it easier than ever for Terps to ensure what they’re eating fits with their dietary restrictions or preferences. Menus from each dining hall are posted two weeks in advance at [nutrition.umd.edu](https://nutrition.umd.edu/), which got a facelift over the summer to make the site more user-friendly. Diners can set filters to see what offered foods are vegan, vegetarian, gluten- or dairy-free, halal-certified, and more. “Before, (the program) worked, but it was very old-school-looking,” Hipple said. “We made it a lot easier to get the information. I think it’s really, really cool.” **Sidebar note:** **What You Need to Know** All week in Maryland Today, we’ll feature important information for the campus community this semester on the following topics: - Monday: Dining - Tuesday: Transportation - Wednesday: New Facilities - Thursday: Mental Health - Friday: Athletics **Topics:** [Campus & Community](https://today.umd.edu/tags/campus-community) **Tags:** [Food](https://today.umd.edu/topic/food) **Units:** [Dining Services](https://today.umd.edu/topic/dining-services), [Division of Student Affairs](https://today.umd.edu/topic/division-student-affairs)