Guests / 5-College Dining

Entertaining Guests at Meals

Students may bring guests to any meal in any of our dining locations.  Students can pay for their guest’s meal with cash, charge, Dining Dollar$ Account, or their MHCXpress Account (debit).  To charge a meal, you must present your ID to the checker at the entrance to the dining hall who will then fill out a charge slip. 
Faculty and staff are welcome to dine in the residence hall dining rooms on occasion, without charge, whenever they are invited as a guest of a student.  Faculty and staff must sign in with the checker located at the entrance to the dining room.

Guest Meal Rates

Five College Meal Exchange

In support of Five-College academic opportunities, a dining meal exchange is available for students enrolled in a meal plan at their home institution: Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Hampshire, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. For weekday lunch, Monday – Friday, there is an open interchange of meals. Dinner or weekend meals may be allowed at another campus in a specified dining facility if the student provides proof of taking a class or being involved in an extracurricular activity such as a performance. Each campus has designated dining locations that five college students are assigned to for the approved meal exchange.
To utilize the meal exchange or obtain further information, students must contact the respective dining department office on their home campus:

Amherst College – Dining Services Office, Valentine Hall
542-2221
Email: Valentine@amherst.edu

Hampshire College – Dining Commons, Saga               
549-2840
Email: dmsDC@hampshire.edu 
    
Mount Holyoke College –Central Services Building,                        Auxiliary Services Office
538-3111
Email:  auxiliary-services@mtholyoke.edu
                             
Smith College – Dining Service Office
30 Belmont Street  (off Green Street)                               
585-2300
Email:  eherring@smith.edu

University of Massachusetts – Meal Plan Office                       
545-1362
Franklin Dining Commons (near fine arts center)
Email:    mcardinal@mail.aux.umass.edu  

All Mount Holyoke College students desiring a meal exchange must:

• Report to MHC Auxiliary Services Office, located in the Central Services Building on the ground floor
• Present their MHC or College ID card
• Report to the Dining Services Office of the host college assignment t obtain their meal pass