Hendrix College Dining Services serve up award-winning menus and, more importantly, award-winning service for students, faculty, and staff.

Hendrix Dining Services recently received several Loyal E. Horton Dining Awards from the National Association of College and University Food Service (NACUFS). Named for a NACUFS founder, past president and highly regarded innovator, the Loyal E. Horton Dining Awards celebrate exemplary menus, presentations, special event planning, and new dining concepts, and provide an avenue for sharing ideas and creative presentations in campus dining services.

The awards include:

Residential Dining – Gold
Catering Online Menu – Silver
Retail Sales (The Burrow) – Silver
Residential Special Events (Carnival Day) – Silver
Catering Special Event (Crime with special guest writer and professor Amelie Hastie) – Bronze

“These awards are the result of a collective effort by all members of our hard working staff and helpful feedback and participation from the Hendrix Community,” said Dining Services director Mike Flory.

Founded in 1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in engaged liberal arts and sciences education. Hendrix was named the country’s #1 “Up and Coming” liberal arts college for the third consecutive year by U.S. News and World Report. Hendrix is featured in the 2011 edition of the Princeton Review as one of the country’s best 376 colleges and is listed in the 2012 edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges as one of 25 “Best Buy” private colleges included. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884. For more information, visit