Activity

Points

Persuade your school to contact Veg Advantage.
Veg Advantage is a national consulting group that helps food-service professionals add healthy vegan dining options to their menus. They are at your and your school's disposal and can provide your cafeteria with free professional advice on finding distributors, recipes, and tons of useful information. Give the relevant pages of this pack to the person in charge of the dining halls at your school. We even have a letter that you can download, personalize, and use to explain your concerns. All you have to do is pass on the materials to your school's dining officials and follow up with them.  

1,500

Collect signatures to show support of your efforts.
Print copies of the petition in our "Veganize Your Cafeteria" pack, gather as many names and e-mail addresses as you can, and then show the petitions to your school's dining officials. Mail copies of the completed petitions to the address below, and we'll reward you with 50 Street Team points for each e-mail address that you get.

peta2 Petition Signups
501 Front St.
Norfolk, VA 23510

250
+ 50
per
e-mail

Get new vegan menu items.
Even one new option can make a huge difference. When you succeed at getting something offered, let us know! Send your reports through our online form and be sure to provide us with what new options you got on the menu, the name of your school, and the name and phone number of a member of the administration we can contact for verification.

1,500

Join your campus food-service committee
This is an excellent way to keep lines of communication open with food service and help them to add delicious vegan food that students enjoy. Work with your dining service and Veg Advantage to make sure that all of the vegan food offerings are well-liked and in high demand.

1,500

Activity

Points

Get media attention.
Contact peta2 to help you get publicity in your school and local media announcing the new options available at your cafeteria and encouraging people to try them. 

1,500

Generate letters to the editor.
Send a letter to the editor that thanks the food-service department for the fantastic job they did getting new vegan foods in the cafeteria and telling them about which meals are your favorite and why. Ghostwrite a letter for a nonvegetarian friend who tried the vegan foods and was blown away by how tasty they were.

250
+ 500
if
printed

Create and distribute a promotional leaflet.
Create a leaflet promoting the options to distribute while tabling in the dining halls during the peak dining hours There is a sample promotional leaflet in the "Veganize Your Cafeteria" pack.

750

Celebrate vegan dining.
Ask your food service to celebrate World Vegetarian Day (October 1) and the Great American Meatout (March 20) by showcasing vegan meals. Contact us at peta2@peta2.com and we will give you pointers to help you publicize these events.

750

Have the vegan food labeled "Vegan."
Get the food service to label all of the vegan options so people who are looking for them can easily spot them.

500

Have the cafeteria provide vegan sampling.
See if your food service will provide free samples of the new vegan items for people as they enter the dining hall.

500

Get a promotional article printed in the dining-hall circular.
Ask your food-service director if they could promote the vegan meals in the food-service circular. Send us a copy of it to receive your points.

500

Stuff the comment box.
Encourage all your friends to complete comment cards praising the cafeteria for the new vegan items. Ensure that the cafeteria receives several positive comment cards and face-to-face comments about the vegan items every week for a few months from a variety of people. Positive feedback will do wonders to keep the vegan food on the menu.

250