University Housing's meal plans offer fresh, delicious choices at every meal.
You have the choice of three types of meal plans:
- Plans with Classic Meals and Café Credits
- Plans with Classic meals only
- All Café Credits plan
Classic meals are all-you-care-to-eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Credits are used in a la carte locations, where items are priced individually—you purchase only what you wish. Credits can also be used to purchase a classic meal, or to treat a friend to a classic meal or a la carte items. Café Credits are purchased as part of a meal plan. You can buy Extra Credits at any time.
Classic Plans
If you eat most of your meals in a residence hall dining room during traditional meal hours, choose a Classic Plan. Classic Plans allow you to eat up to three all-you-care-to-eat meals a day—one breakfast, one lunch, and one dinner—up to the total of meals per week you choose (14 or 20). If you think you’ll choose an a la carte meal once in a while or treat a friend, add Extra Credits to your i-card account anytime. Residents of undergraduate residence halls are required to select a meal plan as part of their contract.
Residents of Daniels and Sherman halls, University apartments, and other individuals with i-cards (off-campus residents, faculty, staff) may purchase a meal plan at affordable rates or add Extra Credits to their i-cards at any time and purchase a meal.
Plans with Classic Meals Only
- 14 classic meals per week
- 20 classic meals per week
- 6 classic meals per week (graduate Hall and off-campus students only)
Classic Meals
- A person can eat up to a maximum of 3 classic meals per day in any residence hall dining room, during traditional meal hours The 3 classic meals per day may consist of 1 breakfast, 1 lunch and 1 dinner up to the weekly total in the plan. A missed classic meal cannot be used later in the day (such as two meals during the lunch period when missing breakfast).
- Classic meals can be used at any of the specialty restaurants, including Fat Don’s
- Unused classic meals do not carry over to future weeks and cannot be used to bring in guests.
- Classic meals cannot be used at a la carte locations (only Café Credits and Extra Credits are accepted at a la carte locations).
Café Credits Plans
If you’re looking for flexibility, like using a la carte locations, bringing in a friend, or dining outside traditional hours, choose a plan with a combination of classic meals and Café Credits. You can use your Café Credits to pick up a quick bagel or sandwich on the go, or choose to meet your friends later in the evening for pizza and hot sandwiches. You can also use your Café Credits to purchase additional classic meals or bring guests to a meal.
For the ultimate flexibility, choose the All Café Credits Plan. The All Café Credits Plan gives you the most flexibility in how and where you dine. The plan allows you to customize the number of classic meals and meals you wish each day. Still hungry? Add Extra Credits to your i-card account anytime.
And if you’re not hungry this week? No problem. If you choose a plan with Café Credits, you may roll over a maximum of one week’s worth of your plan’s Café Credits to the following week, to a maximum balance of double your weekly allotment. The Extra Credits you add to your i-card account never expire.
Note: If you change your meal plan, you can roll over up to one week's worth of your plan's current Café Credits to your new plan.
Plans with Café Credits
- 12 Classic/1,500 Café Credits per week
- 10 Classic/4,500 Café Credits per week
- 10 Classic/6,000 Café Credits per week
- All Café Credits (11,500) per week
Café Credits
- 1 Café Credit has a value of 1 cent. Note: In fall 2010, Café Credits will debut in a new demonination: one credit will equal one dollar.
- Café Credits can be used to purchase food items at any a la carte location or to purchase classic meals. When using Café Credits for classic meals, breakfast uses 695 credits, lunch uses 895 credits and dinner uses 1195 credits.
- Café Credits can be used to purchase classic meals or a la carte items for a guest.
- Café Credits are designed for use on a weekly basis. However, you may rollover a maximum of one week’s worth of your plan’s Café Credits to the following week, to a maximum balance of double your weekly allotment.
- If you run out of your weekly plan allotment of Café Credits in a week, you can buy Extra Credits to purchase additional classic meals or food items at a la carte locations.