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Each of Gateway’s campuses offer a variety of food options for students and staff to choose from, in addition to vending machines placed around campus. There’s no shortage of healthy, satisfying food options to keep our campuses learning and working successfully.

Kenosha Campus

Vending machines offer snacks as well as a range of coffee, tea and other beverages across campus and in the student commons area known as Rudy's Nest. 

Racine Campus

The Culinary Arts program runs the Rudy's On The Lake cafe as well as a coffee shop kiosk in the SC Johnson Student Life Center, offering hot and cold beverages, sandwiches, soups, salads, baked goods, snacks and a variety of other items for purchase.

  • The cafe is open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. during the Fall Semester. Friday hours can vary but are typically 8 a.m to 12 p.m.
  • On Mondays during the Spring and Fall Semesters, culinary students prepare made-to-order breakfast from 8-10:30 a.m. and lunch from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
  • On Thursdays, students prepare an international buffet menu for lunch from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. based on a different nationality’s cuisine every week.
  • Students also prepare food and serve the public from the kitchen front line from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on select days, varying by semester. Meals typically cost between $7-10. 
  • Fine dining meals are available in the Breakwater Dining Room by reservation only on select Wednesdays during the Spring Semester. Cost is between $30-$50 per meal and includes a specialty drink, appetizer, soup or salad, homemade bread, vegetable side, choice of entrée and dessert. Reservations must be made via email.
  • Please call 262-564-2447 or email Melissa Hardrick at hardrickm@gtc.edu with questions about the bakery, breakfast or lunch options, or for fine dining inquiries and reservations.

Elkhorn Campus 

Culinary program students on the Elkhorn Campus operate a short order food service on Tuesdays during the Fall Semester, when they practice short order deli skills. Rotating breakfast and lunch options will be available those days. 

  • The Elkhorn Campus Cafe is a student-operated cafe. It is open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. and serves Anodyne coffee, tea and bakery options all day. Breakfast is served from 8 -10:30 a.m. and Lunch is served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.  
  • Please contact Robin Rupp with questions via email at ruppr@gtc.edu or by phone at 262-564-2457.