Dining at Speyer is a true communal experience.
Speyer partners with food service provider Elior North America for our lunch and snack offerings. Elior is a full-service, on-site, K-12 school dining company serving NYC and the tri-state area with more than 35 years of experience in delivering exceptional student dining. They currently work in many private schools across the city including Browning, Dwight, Friends Seminary, LREI, Nightingale, and St. David’s.
All meals are prepared fresh daily at Elior’s state-of-the-art downtown commissary and delivered to Speyer with care. Elior takes pride in offering made-from-scratch, high-quality food, ensuring students receive the freshest and most nourishing meals available. A few of Elior’s standards include: seasonal and locally-sourced produce; No Antibiotics Ever (NAE) and 100% vegetarian-fed animal proteins; certified-humane and pasture-raised eggs from hens that roam freely and forage outside; milk without growth hormones (rBST), pesticides, or insecticides; and ingredients that contain no high fructose corn syrup and no carrageenans.
Elior accommodates all dietary restrictions and allergies of our students and employees and is committed to integrity and authenticity in everything they do. Their meal and snack service focuses on:
Our lunch and snack menus are published on our website as well as in our weekly school newsletter and our Parent Portal. Lunchtime is staggered, with Kindergarten through Second Grade dining together, while students in Third and Fourth Grade have recess, then vice versa. The Middle School grades have a similar schedule of staggered dining times.
