Meal Plans 101

A meal plan provides students with a predetermined number of meals and/or dining dollars to use at various on-campus dining locations during the semester.

The AYCE area is open to anyone with a meal plan and anyone who purchases an entry ticket at the kiosks.

All Meal Plans (Meals & Dining Dollars) are loaded to your Husky ID or a meal card if you do not have a husky ID, making it even easier to dine on campus. This includes physical IDs, virtual IDs, and digital meal passes for students, faculty, and staff.

If you are a resident and would like to change your meal plan for next quarter please contact the housing office for campus residents or the campus dining office for non-residents to learn more about how to change your meal plan.

No, all locations accept debit or credit card in addition to meal card or husky card. You can also buy an entry ticket to the market bar at the kiosks on the 2nd floor.

Your husky card will not work unless you have purchased a meal plan or have added dining bucks to your account. It may take a day for your meal plan to activate.

Meal exchanges are included in every non-block meal plan. Every non-block meal plan contains a set number of meal exchanges which can be used for to-go meals at Urban Kitchen, The Drop Foodlab, and Clean Plate. Meal exchanges are used in place of a meal swipe for whichever meal period you choose to use them in. Once you use a meal exchange for a meal period you CANNOT use a meal swipe to get into the upstairs dining hall in the same meal period, you must wait until the next meal period to get into Urban Kitchen + Market Bar with a meal swipe. Meal exchanges do NOT reset; each non-block meal plan has a set number of meal exchanges for the quarter.

To use your guest passes, visit the kiosk and select “Urban kitchen (meal plan only)” then select “guest entry”, hit pay using “guest pass +”, and then swipe your husky card or meal card. This will print a ticket that your guest can show to the to-go window attendant, and they will hand them a guest card to swipe in.

If you leave and come back during the same meal period, you will not be charged more than once.