We are renowned for our food and drink. Here you will be able to browse our facilities and food outlets.
Whether it’s the legendary chicken wrap or our Otis cookies, Starbucks coffee, home-made soups or salads, there is something for everyone’s taste.
There are catering and retail facilities all around the campus, including a shop, cafés, food outlets and a main restaurant. Browse our facilities and menus below.
Mardale Food Court
This food court has four outlets: Express Eats – serving breakfast and fast food at lunchtime, a Deli Bar serving chicken wraps & made to order sandwiches and salads, Spudshaw specialises in Jacket Potato meals and a Grab & Go shop that sells sausage rolls, sandwiches and cookies as well as good value coffees and hot chocolate.
Open: 8:30am-3:30pm (Express Eats), 9:15am-1:30pm (Grab & Go), 11:15am-1:05pm (Deli Bar), 11:15am-1:15pm (Spudshaw)
Mardale Chicken Mez
The Chicken Mez specialises in serving chicken wraps, chicken selects, falafel wraps, goujons served with salad and your choice of sauce and cool drinks. It is situated in the Mardale mezzanine on the upper floor balcony.
Open: 11:15am-1:00pm
Mardale Atrium
The ‘Mini Mardale Atrium’ features The Shop, with a fully automatic coffee machine selling “Best Seattle’s Coffee” with a full range of hot drinks, sandwiches, crisps, yogurts, ice-cream, cookies, sweets and confectionery and breakfast bars, cold drinks and stationery.
Open: 8:30am-3:40pm
Langdale Food & Drink Outlets
The Octagon Café is a high-street concept ‘we proudly brew’ Starbucks franchise. We sell hot and iced Starbucks drinks with a focus on quality and consistency. Starbucks trains our staff to the ‘Starbucks standard’, selling sandwiches, paninis, toasties, quality cakes and snacks as well.
The Hive serves sandwiches, crisps, confectionery, made to order milkshakes, cold drinks, cookies and hot pasties.
Open: 8:30am-1:30pm (Octagon), 9:00am-1:30pm (The Hive)
Eskdale Foyer Cafe
Coffee Cube is a foyer kiosk café, serving Peak & Wild coffee, hot chocolate, homemade soup and sandwiches and snacks. It has a small seating area and all the food is take-away.
Open: 10:30am-1:30pm
Silverdale Link
It’s A Wrap specialises in chicken wraps with either spicy breaded chicken goujons or chargrilled chicken goujons served with salad and your choice of sauce and cool drinks. It is situated in the Silverdale link block.
Open: 9:00am-1:15pm
You can top up via Runshaw Pay online or at our Top-up Terminals located across college.
Sustainability Corner
This year we have stepped away from selling plastic water bottles over the counter and we now sell plastic free “Water” bottles that are designed to be refillable via the water stations around campus offering chilled and filtered tap water. You may have seen these pink and blue bottles around. So far this term, we have sold 1548 of them which is a great step forward in moving away from plastic to a bottle made from sugarcane instead. A positive alternative to single use plastic bottles that pre pandemic added up to 230,000 bottles being thrown away every year.
Local Suppliers – we are also looking at using more local suppliers that are based in the northwest, supporting local business and reducing food miles. We have analysed our spend last year and 80% of our purchasing was to northwest suppliers. This is something we are focusing on now to increase as long as these suppliers and giving the College the best value for money.
Disposable paper cups – this year we have taken another step forward to nudge customers to use their own reusable cups for hot and cold drinks through our Starbucks outlets offering a 50p saving every time you use your own cup. Customers can buy a Starbucks re-usable cup or bring their own and still make the saving. These two new initiatives tap into Gen Z’s desire to “spend to save” (spaving), whilst also helping the environment.
Vegan food – Vegan sandwiches & salads through the outlets. From Spudshaw we sell jacket potatoes, vegan hot pasties and sausage rolls. We do an incredible vegan falafel wrap with your choice of sauce. Vegan food has a super low carbon footprint compared to other foods and the quality and flavour of vegan food now has improved considerably over the years.
Please note: Customers who suffer from food related allergies are invited to make themselves known to the Runshaw Catering staff who will be pleased to book you an appointment with the Head of Catering & Retail.