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Dining Experience

Meal Plans

Whether you enjoy delicious sit-down meals with friends or need to grab a wholesome snack on the way to class, our dining plans are designed with personalization and flexibility in mind. Each plan emphasizes variety, value and convenience, and includes regular dining events and promotions, from outdoor cookouts and food truck festivals to pop-up events and holiday dinners.

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Personalizing your dining experience

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Video: Learn more about how meal plans work.

How Meal Plans Work

Meal plans are refreshed at the beginning of each semester, and students are able to purchase individually priced items in locations across our three campuses. All items in the dining facilities are sold a la carte (not buffet). Instead of a meal-based system, students pay for each item using the meal points on their Q-Card just as they would in a traditional restaurant.

In addition to the wide variety of meals and snacks available in our dining halls, students may use the balance on their dining plan to purchase other items on campus, such as On the Rocks Pub & Grille, our on-campus Starbucks, concessions at athletic events or at food trucks, which regularly visit the Mount Carmel Campus quad.

Meal Plan Options

No two appetites, schedules or lifestyles are the same. We designed our tiered dining plans so you can personalize your daily culinary experience. Each plan is simple, and emphasizes variety, value and convenience.

Silver Plan

We designed the Silver Plan with lighter appetites in mind. The Silver Plan is best for students who are choosier, wish to order in or dine off-campus often, or go home regularly. It includes access to regular dining events and promotions.
Cost: $1,835 per semester ($3,670 per year)

Gold Plan

A mid-level dining plan for students who eat a couple of meals per day in the dining halls but also enjoy ordering food for delivery, going off-campus to local restaurants or who visit home regularly. The Gold Plan is ideal if you believe in making daily meals a real experience, as well as want to participate in regular dining events and promotions.
Cost: $1,940 per semester ($3,880 per year)

Platinum Plan

Students who elect the Platinum Plan enjoy the campus dining experience and occasionally dine off-campus.
Cost: $2,040 per semester ($4,080 per year)

Platinum+ Plan

This plan is designed for the frequent diner who dines off-campus rarely.
Cost: $2,260 per semester ($4,520 per year)

Diamond Plan

Our most hearty plan, the Diamond Plan, is for students who eat three or more generous meals per day and snacks every day in our dining halls. The Diamond Plan is especially designed for students who eat frequent, heartier meals in the dining hall and almost never order delivered food or dine off campus.
Cost: $2,760 per semester ($5,520 per year)

Bronze Plan (Commuter)

We created the Bronze Plan especially for our commuter students (undergrad, grad, full-time law, and medical students) who spend a lot of time on campus. This plan is accepted on all 3 campuses, and is ideal for picking up a mid-day snack, taking a sandwich to go or grabbing Starbucks between classes.
Cost: $225 per semester ($450 per year)

Bronze+ Plan (Commuter)

The Bronze Plus Plan provides our commuter students (undergrad, grad, full-time law, and medical students) who spend a lot of time on campus more flexibility in their dining endeavors. This plan is ideal for picking up a midday snack, taking a sandwich to go or even occasionally grabbing a meal from any of the 3 campuses.
Cost: $550 per semester ($1,100 per year)

Rates shown above are for 2023-24 academic year.

Dining FAQs

Visit the Hours of Operation page of the Dine on Campus website

Visit the What’s on the Menu page of the Dine on Campus website

If no dining plan selection is made, for the Fall term:

  • All residents default to the Platinum Plan

  • Commuter and students who live off-campus default to the Bronze plan.

For the Spring term, students default to their selected plan from the Fall term.

You can change your dining plan on the MyHousing page. Dining plans are assigned when invoices are available for the upcoming term and can be changed up until the end of the add/drop registration period of the term.

To view or change a dining plan, please:

  1. Log into MyHousing 

  2. Select "Dining" and then select "Dining Plans"

  3. Select the current term and then select "Change my Meal Plan"

  4. Select the desired dining plan from the list of available dining plans and click "Purchase Meal Plan"

Please note:

  • Students living on the Mount Carmel Campus and York Hill Campus will see Silver, Gold, Platinum, Platinum+ or Diamond for dining plan options.

  • Students living in Whitney Village and Quinnipiac-owned off-campus housing may upgrade from the required Bronze dining plan to Bronze+, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Platinum+ or Diamond dining plans.

  • Full-time commuter students may upgrade from the Commuter Bronze plan to the Commuter Bronze+, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Platinum+ or Diamond dining plans.

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The Bronze Plan is required for all non-resident students and commuters. The plan applies to full-time undergraduate commuter students, students living in Whitney Village and Quinnipiac-owned off-campus housing, as well as full-time graduate students, full-time law students and first- and second-year medical students. Part-time law students will default to a Bronze Plan of $110 per semester. The non-resident dining plan excludes students who are veterans, enrolled in QU online, away for study abroad, student teaching or clinical affiliation. Students who receive the required Bronze Plan have the ability to upgrade their plan for the fall semester through the end of the add/drop registration period.

The dining plan is not meal-based. It is based on a declining balance system, similar to a debit card account. All items in the dining facilities are sold a la carte. Students pay for each item just as they would in a traditional restaurant. 

The dining plan can be used at all dining locations on our 3 campuses. These locations include Cafe Q, Bobcat Den, North Haven Cafe, North Haven Outtakes, York Hill Cafe, Au Bon Pain Cafe Express, Starbucks, On the Rocks and the M&T Bank Arena concessions.

We offer 24 unique food stations across our 3 campuses, serving options such as grilled food, smoothies, Starbucks and sushi.

View our dining locations

Students can access their balances at the registers at campus dining facilities, online on the Q-Card Balance page on MyQ, or via the eAccounts app.

Download the Apple eAccounts app

Download the Android eAccounts app

Budget guidelines week-by-week appear on posters at the registers and on the meal plan budgets and staying on track page of this website indicating what the ideal dining balance should be each week of the semester.

Learn more about meal plan budgets and staying on track

The dining facilities accept QCash and credit cards. QCash acts as a debit account separate from your student's meal plan, and you may add QCash to your student's account at any time. In addition to each dining location on our 3 campuses, QCash is accepted at more than 30 establishments in the surrounding area.

Any balance left over from the Fall semester will automatically roll over to the Spring semester. Meal points are cleared at the conclusion of the Spring semester and any leftover balance is forteited.

Yes. There are vegetarian and vegan options available at all dining facilities across our 3 campuses.

Learn more about dietary restrictions, accommodations and our allergy guide

Cafe Q on the Mount Carmel Campus has a station called G8 dedicated to food prepared without the 8 most common allergens. There are also dishes made without gluten available throughout our dining facilities.

Learn more about dietary restrictions, accommodations and our allergy guide

Two students must come to an agreement on how many meal points to transfer (a minimum $50 meal points per transfer).

The student transferring the points should visit the meal points transfer site and complete the entire form. Information Technology Services will receive the request and process the transfer of meal points.

  • If the students agree to a financial transfer, that is done on their own without intervention from Quinnipiac University.

  • The last day to transfer meal points is May 8.

  • Students whose required dining service accounts have been funded by an athletic scholarship may not sell their excess dining points. NCAA regulations forbid this.

  • Students who have been granted a meal plan waiver by the Office of Student Accessibility may not receive a transfer of meal points from another student.

  • RAs may not sell their excess dining points.

  • Minimum transfer is $50 dining points.

Visit the student employment page of the Dine on Campus website to see job openings

Visit the Catering page of the Dine on Campus website

Contact Us

To check out what we have on our dining menus, please visit Quinnipiac's Dine on Campus website

If you have any questions, please email DiningAdvisoryBoard@QU.edu

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