The Institute draws faculty, students and staff from all over India and the world. Creating a safe, palatable and responsive food service on campus is therefore a great challenge. A variety of facilities exist in the campus for catering to different groups i.e. long duration program students, staff, researchers and executive education program participants.

The Institute’s food offerings maintain the high quality on several parameters: quality of service, food, and hygiene. For long duration program participants, the warden and Student Affairs Officer as well as the elected student mess secretary along with mess committee is involved. In addition the institute has in-house experts, whose research interest in the field of food quality with training and expertise in public health has contributed greatly to creating acceptable standards across the institute’s various food joints.