Dining Services

USF Dining Services offers over 25 different dining locations, including four all-youcare-to-eat style dining halls, cafes and convenience stores. Enjoying a delicious meal on campus will be the least of any student’s worries. USF Dining offers a variety of convenient meal plans designed to fit any lifestyle. All plans include Meal Swipes and Dining Dollars. Meal Swipes can be used at any dining hall or at Argos Exchange. Students also have the option to take their meal to-go with USF Dining’s sustainable to-go box program. Dining Dollars can be used at any USF Dining location.

Having a meal plan provides access to a number of benefits including: one-on-one nutrition counseling with a registered dietitian, themed events, cooking demonstrations and specials. Mobile ordering is also available for most brands so students, staff and faculty can enjoy their favorite foods without the wait. Whether you’re looking for a full meal, a quick bite to eat, or just to hang out with friends, USF Dining has you covered!

The USF Botanical Gardens is a hidden gem on the USF Tampa campus. When the gardens were established in 1969, much of the campus was covered with scrub palm and ant hills. In the 1990s, it blossomed with new buildings and demonstration gardens in its existing location on the southwest corner of campus. It now serves as a teaching and research facility for the biology department. With approximately seven acres of land and an additional greenbelt area, the Botanical Gardens is home to a living collection of more than 3,000 plants and natural habitats. An estimated 35,000 visitors enjoy the Botanical Gardens every year through a variety of festivals and events held in its lush surroundings.

Community Garden, here students have a hands-on approach to learning how to cultivate the land from seed to plate. Food grown is donated to the USF Feed-A-Bull Food Pantry and Feeding Tampa Bay.

Campus Recreation is so much more than a gym, with first-class programs and facilities, including a 28,000-square-foot, fully-wired fitness center, group fitness classes, aquatics, intramural sports, club sports and outdoor recreation opportunities. The state-of-the-art Tampa facility is equipped with a variety of exciting features:

• Free-weight equipment

• Cardio machines with internet access and games while you work out

• Indoor racquetball courts, indoor basketball or eight volleyball courts

• Indoor, heated swimming pool (10 feet deep)

• Over 40 group fitness classes a week (yoga, Pilates, spin, Zumba, Jujitsu, Muscle Madness, etc.)

Riverfront Park is USF’s own private park on the Hillsborough River, offering canoeing, kayaking, a ropes course, disc golf, volleyball and picnicking.

Campus Recreation—St. Petersburg provides members of the campus community the opportunity to engage in physical and leisure activities on the level they desire. Whether you are looking to join a team sport, de-stress with a yoga class or explore the great outdoors, we have it all for you! Sail the bay from St. Petersburg’s Boathouse—only in Florida!