Your New Dining Facility

Dear Wildcat,

This week, the latest dining facility that caters specifically to your needs is opening on our campus. Champions Kitchen is the residential dining venue located inside the new UK Student Center.

While the remainder of the 300,000-square-foot Student Center is still under construction for a few more months, access to Champions Kitchen will be available via one entrance located on the south side of the building facing White Hall and Patterson Office Tower. This state-of-the-art facility has been designed specifically with you in mind:

• The 750-seat Champions Kitchen will offer multiple dining concepts including a scratch bakery, a breakfast station, hand-tossed salad bar and a "worry-free zone" where food is prepared in a gluten-, peanut-, tree nut- and shell fish-free kitchen.
• Champions Kitchen – like other UK Dining facilities – will use locally sourced Kentucky Proud produce, meats, cheese and dairy products from producers such as Weisenberger Mills and Marksbury Farm.
• Champions Kitchen accepts UK meal plans, Flex, Plus Account as well as cash and credit.
• Champions Kitchen will be open Monday-Thursday from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Meanwhile, the retail dining options in Bowman's Den will remain open through the Spring 2018 semester, after which those franchises and others will be located in the new Student Center.

Our commitment, as always, is to put your needs first. As part of that commitment, we believe believe this new, state-of-the-art facility will enhance the quality of life across our campus community. We are excited it is opening as you return to campus for the semester.

Eric N. Monday

Executive Vice President for Finance & Administration