Common Ground
Queen’s University ARC 2nd Floor
284 Earl St
Kingston, ON, Canada
(613) 533-3109
Common Ground is a popular coffee shop on Queen’s University campus, located on the second floor of the Queen’s Centre, and owned by your student government, the Alma Mater Society. Both the main location and The Brew are run by a staff and management team that is comprised entirely of students. This means that from the music to our menu, we know what students want and strive to exceed your expectations! Common Ground, or CoGro as it has been lovingly nicknamed, offers a menu of quality food and drinks at prices reasonable for your student budget. Not only is CoGro a delicious option for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, it is a wonderful place to hang out with friends between classes or meet up for study sessions. Common Ground’s atmosphere attracts a great mix of Queen’s students and our smiling staff will keep you coming back for more!
A daily selection of locally baked tea biscuits, muffins, and more!
Our lovely selection of La Rocca cakes (options will vary). Look out for seasonal cakes throughout the year!
A slice of cake: $4.32
A daily selection of locally baked tea biscuits, muffins, and more!
Have a meeting, conference, or event that needs catering? Common Ground is happy to help! We can cater events of all different sizes, from small meetings to large conferences! We provide hot and cold beverages, baked goods, wraps, and more at affordable prices. If you have a recurring activity that you would like a catering for, please give us an email at cogro.marketing@ams.queensu.ca, and we would be happy to work with you to setup a recurring order! For additional information, or to place an order, please visit our catering form!
Sustainability is a long term project. In 2019, the City of Kingston declared a climate emergency, following the growing global trend recognizing the devastating impact that certain human activities have has on our environment. It was not long before this that CoGro, as a service, decided that it was time to make tangible changes to the way that it operates to try and minimize our environmental impact. These changes have taken several forms…
Our Sustainability fee came into effect at the beginning of our 2019-2020 year. Under this fee, each disposable item that a customer requests with their order (including bags, cups, and containers) is charged at 10¢. The purpose of this is twofold: we want to encourage our customer base to choose to take their orders for here (or bring their own reusables), and the extra funding from this fee is also used to help finance the purchase of compostable packaging, minimizing the impact of the disposables that do get used.
On top of our sustainability fee, we are offering a discount to any customer who brings their own reusable to Common Ground, whether it be a travel mug or a container for your bagel! This is again to discourage the use of disposable cups and containers. As well, in 2019, we gave our 1000 free CoGro ECoffee Cups as well as 150 free HuskeeCups in an effort to alleviate the financial burden of purchasing a reusable for students. We hope to have similar initiatives in the future, so keep your eyes peeled!
On top of our sustainability fee, we are offering a discount to any customer who brings their own reusable to Common Ground, whether it be a travel mug or a container for your bagel! This is again to discourage the use of disposable cups and containers. As well, in 2019, we gave our 1000 free CoGro ECoffee Cups as well as 150 free HuskeeCups in an effort to alleviate the financial burden of purchasing a reusable for students. We hope to have similar initiatives in the future, so keep your eyes peeled!
While we want to, in the long run, end the use of disposable cups on campus all together, we understand that this will not happen overnight. Because of this, we have switched over to all compostable packaging at the customer level (with the exception at the moment of our cup sleeves, which are recyclable). This ranges from our forks, to our straws, to our cups and bags! We hope that this will minimize the environmental impact of the disposables that are still being used until we are able to switch over completely.
Please let us know if you have any ideas that might help CoGro further its goal of sustainability! Send us an email at commonground@ams.queensu.ca with your suggestions!
Head Manager
Purchasing Manager
Marketing and Events Manager
Administration and Staff Relations Manager
Queen’s University ARC 2nd Floor
284 Earl St
Kingston, ON, Canada
(613) 533-3109
Queen’s University JDUC 2nd Floor
87 Union St W
Kingston, ON, Canada
MAIN COGRO
Mon-Thurs: 9am-3pm
Friday: 9am-1pm
Weekends: Closed
THE BREW
Closed Until Further Notice