Dining co-ops

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Dining Co-ops

Eating in a co-op is one of the dining options available to Oberlin students. Dining co-ops saved students $1300 for the 2004-2005 school year. Students in dining co-ops participate in the decision-making process, buy food, cook food, and clean up afterwards, as well as a few other random jobs.

To get into a co-op, you have to sign up with OSCA through a lottery process. As far as I know, only employees of OSCA get to jump ahead of the lottery; no one else gets special treatment.

Students who live in a co-op are automatically members of their house's dining co-op, though they can opt not to eat there and apply to eat in Kosher or TWC instead. (Even though Fairchild has a dining co-op in its basement, the living space is a dorm so its residents can eat anywhere.)

One year for a winter term project, a group of co-opers created a video outlining the cleaning procedures in a dining co-op, The OSCA Training Video.