page_title: The Corp
section_title: The Food Corp, or Vital Vittles (est. 1972, 1974)
hierarchical_section_title: The Corp / Current businesses / The Food Corp, or Vital Vittles (est. 1972, 1974)
caption_attribution_description: English: Vital Vittles convenience shop in Georgetown University's Leavey Center
context_page_description: Students of Georgetown Inc., commonly known as "The Corp", is a 5013 non-profit public charitable organization at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and is the largest entirely student-run 5013 non-profit corporation in the world, with seven subsidiary companies generating annual revenues in excess of $5 million. Only undergraduate students of Georgetown University work as employees or sit as members of the Corp's Board of Directors, distinguishing business operations at the Corp from other student-run companies such as Harvard Student Agencies, which allows non-students and alumni to serve as board members.
  As a registered charity, The Corp's profits fund grants for student organizations, as well as scholarships for students, with each recipient being chosen by The Corp's Philanthropy Committee or Board of Directors.
  Vital Vittles is the largest of seven businesses currently owned and operated by The Corp.
context_section_description: The descendant of the Corp's oldest original business, the Food Co-op, Vital Vittles is the Corp's oldest and largest original business, employing over fifty students. The Food Co-op began is operations as a fruit and yogurt stand for the newly created Corp in 1972 and joined the Book Co-op and the Record Co-op in the basement of Healy Hall. Two years later, the Corp expanded its food selection by moving the business into the larger basement of the New South Hall dormitory. The popularity of the location prompted the university to establish its first large dining hall in that space.
  The Food Co-op, now operating under the name Vital Vittles, later moved back to the basement of Georgetown University's Healy Hall, then to the basement of the university's Copley Hall dormitory. In 1989 it moved for the final time when the Corp moved all of its operations to the new Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center, where it shared a space with Saxa Sundries. When Saxa Sundries closed its operations, the space of both stores was combined into one, allowing for the expansion of Vital Vittles into a large grocery store.
caption: Vital Vittles is The Corp's oldest business, serving as a campus grocery.
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