Board Plan Dining Options

All full-time residential students are required to be on the 21-meal board plan and can dine in any open dining center for any meal.  Meals are provided in designated dining centers and Blanchard Café according to the posted schedule for meal hours.  All other students have the option of purchasing a meal plan—just contact the Dining Services Office at extension 2100 for more information.  Additionally, the 21-meal plan includes a Dining Dollar$ Account where a portion of the student’s board money each semester is made available for purchasing guest meals in any of the residential dining locations or any items in our cash operations: Blanchard Café, Uncommon Grounds and Cub’s Corner.  Once those funds are depleted, students can use the MHCXpress Account option for these needs.  Unused portions of the Dining Dollars$ Account do not carry over from semester to semester. 

All students have the option to open a MHCXpress Account, which is a prepaid debit account.  The student deposits money into this account which can be used to purchase guest meals, any items in Blanchard Café, Uncommon Grounds, or Campus Store, items at participating Village Commons vendors, and for use in our vending machines for beverage, snack, laundry, and photocopying.   For more information about these accounts and other features of the All-Campus/ID Card, please contact the Card Services Office at extension 3111.

Each residential dining location or restaurant features a different menu with numerous entrées for lunch and dinner plus all of the accompaniments to complement your meal.  Additionally, board students may dine in Blanchard Café, located in our campus center, for lunch and/or dinner.  In total, students have a choice of over 50 different menu options in any given meal period.  The only thing that you need to do is choose the dining location with the menu choices that whet your appetite.  Dining Services takes pride in providing quality in our food and service.  Our menus are designed to be creative and innovative providing a wide variety of items from soups, several entrées including vegetarian and vegan options at every meal, cultural and ethnic dishes, freshly prepared cooked-to-order items to fresh vegetables, extensive salad bars, deli bars, home-baked breads, and desserts.  

The menu choices available in our dining locations will be posted on the menus located in the display case outside of each dining center and on our website.  If you are viewing our menus on our website, you have the option to view the nutritional information from our Nutritive Analysis Module for any item listed.  This is accessible by going to our website,choose “weekly menus”, click on the “apple” icon and choose the menu item(s) that you want for the nutritional information.  Dining Services wants to hear from you about our food and service.  We welcome and appreciate any feedback that we receive from you so we can better serve you as our customers.  Comment cards are available in all of our dining rooms and on our website.  Those comments are circulated to several members of the Dining Services staff and the most appropriate person will respond to you within a very short period of time.

To help you better understand our different dining operations, a brief description is provided below.  Our meal hours and dining center descriptions can be found on our website under “hours of operation & location descriptions”.  Your board plan includes several kinds of dining options and services.  Please take a moment to review the variety of dining options available to you, and then enjoy dining with us!

• All-You-Can-Eat or Unlimited Seconds Dining Centers whereby you swipe your ID card when you enter the dining center for the respective meal period and can return to our serving lines as many times as you want within that meal period.
• Grab n’ Go Dining Center (Torrey) and The Atrium Café (Kendade) whereby you swipe your ID card for the meal period and can choose from a variety of menu items up to a designated total number of items.  This is a “one time through the line” dining option.
• A la Carte or Cash Operation (Blanchard Café) is a dining location where all menu items are individually priced.  The customer chooses the items they wish to purchase and pays the total of those items.  On the student board program, there is a cash value of up to $7.00 in board dollars for each lunch and dinner meal period that a student gets to use.  Since this is counted as a meal, all items that you wish to include in that meal, need to be purchased at that time.  If your items total more than the designated amount, the difference will automatically be deducted from your Dining Dollar$ Account, and then when that is depleted, your MHCXpress Account.  You can also pay with cash.