“Eating Made Easy”

Dining Locations

Meal Plan Options

When you purchase a Meal Plan you receive:

Meal Plan History

NOTES:

1. Each fiscal year reflects the number of meal plans sold for the fall semester.

2. The increases are in correlation of providing more product offerings and diversifying the types of meal plans we offer in order to better meet student lifestyles.

Transition to a New Model

Current Format:

Residents in mandatory meal plan halls must be on a meal based plan: These facilities fall within this criteria:

– Reese Hall– Humes Hall– North Carrick– South Carrick– Morrill Hall– Gibbs Hall (Closed)– Brown Hall (open fall 2014)

Other meal plans have been developed in cooperation with Housing to encourage participation in other traditional housing units, as well as the apartment residents and commuter students.

Transition to a New ModelProposal:

Eliminate the mandatory meal plan residence halls criteria.

Require all first year, undergraduate students to purchase a meal-based meal plan. This would not include transfers who have completed a pre-determined number of credit hours.

All other undergraduate students must purchase a debit balance (DB) plan at a minimum of $300 per semester.

Students may purchase a meal plan which would supersede the $300 DB requirement.

Any DB amount remaining in a student’s account would transfer from fall to spring semester.

At the conclusion of the spring semester, any remaining amount in the DB plans would roll into an All-Star account. This allows the student to use the funds for meals, books, apparel, supplies and vending at other locations that accept All-Star funds on campus.

Transition to a New Model

Advantages of transitioning to this format:

This generates additional commission dollars and capital outlay funding for the campus in order to support these new facilities.

It eliminates the confusion when a student transfers between residence halls.

This should assist in the assignment and reapplication of housing allocations since meal plans are not assigned to specific halls.

The retail dining options on this campus are vibrant and diverse and strongly support a mandatory debit plan program. The opening of the new student union will further enhance this program.– Student Union

– Cumberland Avenue Retail Location

– New Residential Dining Facility on Stokely Center Site

– New Residential Dining Facility in the Presidential Courtyard Area

Transition to a New ModelAdvantages of transitioning to this format:

This will further engage residential students and commuter students in order to enhance their college experiences.

Lowers the financial burden on residential students by minimizing the increase in meal plans in the future.

If the student does not spend the money during the semester they may secure a refund through the All-Star account.

At the University of Memphis these results have occurred:– Dining Dollars have grown close to 200%

– Vending sales have grown 320%

– Bookstore sales have also grown

– Significant increase in student satisfaction

– 97% of full-time undergraduate student population is dining on campus

– 3% full refund

– 12% partial refund

– University retention has grown 6% since inception

$300 per semester equates to $18.75 per week, or M-F $3.75 per day, or M-S $2.68 per day

Comparable Models Listed below are Universities in the

Southeast with similar programs:

– University of Alabama ($300 DB per student/per semester)

– University of Memphis ($300 DB per student/per semester)

– University of Mississippi ($200 DB per student/per semester)

– Tennessee State University(all on campus students required to purchase $200 DB

plan per semester)

Questions?