With so many great dining options in residence and around campus, it’s helpful to know where and how to use your meal plan (with discounts!).
Here are the basics for dining in first-year residence:
Residence dining rooms
Totem Park, Place Vanier, and Orchard Commons each have their own unique dining rooms: Feast, Gather, and Open Kitchen. All three feature a wide variety of menu options for different tastes and dietary needs. So whether you’re looking for vegan, lactose-free, or Halal choices, UBC Food Services has you covered.
Meal options range from avocado toast to a hot bowl of phở. Looking for a quick snack? Grab a smoothie or fresh fruit for your walk to class.
What is a meal plan?
If you live in Totem Park, Place Vanier, or Orchard Commons, you have to get the Residence Meal Plan.
Think of your meal plan like a debit account: you put in money at the beginning of the year, and Dining Dollars come out of your total whenever you pay with your UBCcard.
Your meal plan comes with two types of Dining Dollars: Residence Dollars and Flex Dollars. Here’s a list of where you can use each type of Dining Dollars (and the discounts you can get):
Where to use Residence Dollars
Residence dining rooms: Feast, Gather, Open Kitchen
Restaurants: The Point, Sage Restaurant, Ideas Lunch & Wine Bar
Food trucks: Hungry Nomad, School of Fish, The Dog House
Quick meals: The Loop Café, Triple O’s, Mercante, Bento Sushi, Perugia Italian Caffè, Pacific Poke, Ike’s Café, Subway
Discounts: 25% residence dining, 5% everywhere else, no 5% tax
Where to use Flex Dollars
Cafes: Starbucks, Tim Hortons, Harvest, Stir It Up Café, Sauder Exchange Café, Law Café, Magma Café, Neville’s Café, IRC Snackbar, Daily Dose
AMS food services: Pie R Squared, Blue Chip Cookies, Ph Tea, Grand Noodle Emporium, Honour Roll
Campus partners: Domino’s Pizza, Booster Juice, Great Dane Coffee, Mahony & Sons, Brown’s Socialhouse, Vera’s Burger Shack, The Pita Pit
Residence markets: Hero Coffee & Market, Gage Market, Hubbards Global Market, Magda’s Late Night Market
Printing stations and vending machines
Discounts: 5% UBC Food Services locations, none at AMS/campus partner locations
What if you run out of Dining Dollars?
You can top up Flex Dollars anytime, and they’ll automatically transfer to Residence Dollars when you buy food in the dining rooms. That means you still get all the benefits, like no tax and the 25% discount.
Happy eating!
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