Hillcrest’s outpost of the 100-plus-location Ike’s Love & Sandwiches chain occupies 1010 University Ave in the 92103 ZIP code, carrying the full Dutch Crunch bread and proprietary Dirty Sauce program that launched in San Francisco in 2007. Guests fueling a Hillcrest lunch crawl pair an Ike’s sandwich with a post-meal espresso from Better Buzz Coffee Hillcrest on the same University Avenue strip. The menu at this location runs past 800 named sandwich combinations spanning meat, vegan, vegetarian, halal, and gluten-free builds — each toasted on the chain’s signature Dutch Crunch roll with Dirty Sauce baked into the bread. Ike’s catering arm handles sandwich platters for corporate lunches, campus events, and private parties through its online ordering system. Afternoon visitors extending a sandwich stop into dessert walk to Gelato Vero Caffe for handmade gelato in the Hillcrest dining corridor. The most complex catering format at this location is a multi-category event build combining individually wrapped halal, vegan, and gluten-free assortments with meat-lover platters on Dutch Crunch for campus events exceeding 200 attendees.