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Meal Plans

The College offers eight different meal plans to accommodate your needs. Meal plans are based on units called "blocks," and all but the A-1 meal plan offer flex dollars. Blocks and flex dollars are pre-purchased units of measure that may be redeemed for food and/or beverages in the dining venues. In the all-you-can-eat Servery/Great Room, blocks are redeemed for meals using the following scale:

• Breakfast = 1 block
• Lunch and brunch = 2 blocks
• Dinner = 3 blocks

A student who eats 19 meals per week should use 600 blocks per semester if he/she used only blocks to acquire meals.

Flex dollars are included in all the plans with the exception of the A-1 plan. Flex dollars allow students to use their board plan to eat and drink at the smaller retail dining venues: Upper Deck, Lewis Quad Grab & Go, the campus convenience store and the vending machines, in addition to the Servery/Great Room.

The Servery / Great Room

The showpiece of campus dining, the Great Room, is a 400-seat, richly finished dining room, featuring cherry paneling, slate floors, mission-style dining furniture, and a wood-burning fireplace. It is supported by the all-you-can-eat Servery, featuring the following:

• A Breakfast Station where students can make their own Belgian waffles, toast a bagel or bread, or choose from a rotating selection of cereals and breakfast pastries. At the Marché, they can select from a variety of proteins: omelets, scrambled eggs, and bacon.
• The Three Marché (servery) Stations provide students with pizza/pasta, stir-fry, and grilled foods. They can choose from the offerings displayed or ask the chef to prepare new combinations for them as they watch.
• The "Comfort Food" Station offers students a daily selection of traditional entrées, vegetarian entrées, and vegetables. They can help themselves to a daily rotation of offerings, such as a slice of pot roast with carrots or eggplant lasagna.
• A Salad Bar features fresh fruit, freshly made grain salads, a variety of greens and vegetables, a soup-of-the-day, or sandwich makings with pita bread and roasted veggies, for example.

Meal Plan Pricing Structure

Plan	Description	2005-2006 Annual Price	First-Year Res. Hall Student Options	Upper-Class Res. Hall Student Options	Options For Commuter and Townhouse Residents
A-1	600 Blocks	$3,525	X	X	X
A-2	548 Blocks + $100 Flex	$3,520	X	X	X
A-3	488 Blocks + $250	$3,510	X	X	X
B-1	440 Blocks + $350	$3,745		X	X
B-2	400 Blocks + $200 Flex	$3,315		X	X
B-3	368 Blocks + $250 Flex	$3,265		X	X
B-4	200 Blocks + $350 Flex	$2,265		X	X
C-1	158 Blocks + $150 Flex	$1,510		X	X