Meal Plans

Stanford's Residential Education program promotes the philosophy that living and learning are integrated, and that formal teaching, informal learning, and personal support in residences are integral to a Stanford education. Meals play a key role in this mission of community building, leading, and learning. Therefore residents of University-managed housing with an attached Stanford Dining facility (Branner, Florence Moore, Lakeside, Manzanita, Murray, Ricker, Stern, Wilbur, and Yost) are required to participate in a meal plan. Stanford Dining is committed to providing Meal Plans that offer maximum flexibility of dining locations across campus.

Stanford Dining serves 19 meals each week: breakfast, lunch and dinner, Monday thru Friday, and brunch and dinner on the weekends. There are three meal plans to choose from: 19 meals/week, 14 meals/week plus Cardinal Dollars, and 10 meals/week plus Cardinal Dollars.

There are three standard meal plans available: 19 meals/week; 14 meals/week plus meal plan Cardinal Dollars; and 10 meals/week plus meal plan Cardinal Dollars. The 10 meals/week plan allows for one roll-over meal per week; the 14 meals/week plan allows two roll-over meals per week. The 19 meals/week plan now includes an additional three guest meals per quarter, for a total of eight guest meals per quarter; the 14 meal/week and 10 meal/week plans continue to provide five guest meals per quarter. The 10 meal plan allows one roll-over meal to be carried over to a following week, allowing for a maximum of 11 meals in a given week. With the 14 meal plan, up to two roll-over meals may carry over to following weeks, for a maximum of 16 all-you-care-to-eat meals in any one week. Roll-over meals carry over from week to week until the extra meal is used, or until the end of the meal plan quarter.

	Aut	Win	Spr	Total
Total Meal Plan Cost	$1,809	$1,618	$1,555	$4,982
Meal Plan Cardinal Dollars
14 Meals/week	155	135	130	420
10 Meals/week	270	245	235	750
Yost/Murray: 11 meals/week
and Open Kitchen	125	115	105	345

19 Meals/week Meal Plan—Students on this meal plan are able to partake of every meal that Stanford Dining serves. Students enter the dining hall and swipe their ID cards once. During this visit, they may make unlimited trips through the food service lines, and eat as much as they want. This plan offers 8 bonus guest meals per quarter.

14 Meals/week plus Meal Plan Cardinal Dollars—Students begin each week on Sunday with 14 all-you-care-to-eat meals available to them. Each quarter, a set amount of Cardinal Dollars is added to a student's ID card. Two unused meals may be rolled over into the following weeks for a maximum of 16 meals per week.

10 Meals/week plus Meal Plan Cardinal Dollars—Students begin each week on Sunday with 10 all-you-care-to-eat meals available to them. Each quarter, a set amount of Cardinal Dollars is added to a student's ID card. One unused meal may be rolled over into the following weeks for a maximum of 11 meals per week.

Open Kitchen—Yost and Murray residents have 10 meals/week cooked and served in their house, one meal that can be used in another dining hall, and each resident is given a set amount of Cardinal Dollars each quarter. Each house also has a discretionary budget to purchase snacks or other food items as agreed upon by the house, available to residents in the open kitchen. Students at Yost and Murray houses are responsible for the cleanliness of the kitchens outside Stanford Dining's hours of operation.

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