This isn’t a dining hall, restaurant or neighborhood bodega. It’s a 160-square-foot storage room in the basement of Wien Hall, a dormitory on 116th Street, crammed with shelves full of potato chips and cold medicine and refrigerators packed with soft drinks and ice cream.

The freezer at CU Snacks is packed with pita pockets, burritos, ice cream and frozen dinners. PHOTO: Armen Terjimanian

CU Snacks is a business venture created by two Columbia undergraduates who believed demand would be great enough for a late-night delivery service after the campus dining halls had closed at 8 p.m.

Here in the city that never sleeps, convenience stores and bodegas keep their lights on to cater to that New York spirit: what you want, when you want it. And a neighborhood densely populated with college students like Morningside Heights is no exception to these around-the-clock hours.

“We’re essentially a mini-mart that delivers,” said Brandon Arbiter, 21, co-founder of CU Snacks and a junior in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Columbia University. “And we’re able to have the fastest delivery time because we don’t cook anything.”

The idea for CU Snacks came from a similar service that operates at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. called Campus Snacks.

Arbiter said CU Snacks delivers within six to eight minutes to East Campus dorms and apartments, and within 12 to 15 minutes for west-side customers. Its delivery radius includes streets from 112th to 116th and Morningside to Riverside, and it stays open until 2 a.m. on weekdays and 3 a.m. on weekends.