Meal Plan Components

Each meal plan comes with a food point account which can be used in all dining locations on campus to make purchases. Each food point is an electronic dollar in value.  Typically food points are used to make purchases in our convenience stores, at our Holy Grounds locations and to pay the remaining balance on an MPE transaction.  For example, in Holy Grounds you decide to use an MPE to pay for your purchase.  The bill comes to $9.25.  $7.25 is credited to the transaction from your MPE meal swipe and you pay off the remaining balance of $2.00 with your food points.

Note: Points are a separate account from the Wildcard account (NovaBucks); however, both are contained on the Wildcard.

Unlike regular meals where you can only use them on yourself, guest meals can be used to treat a visiting friend. If you run out of regular meals, you can use guest meals on yourself as well! Guest meals can also be used as an MPE in our Retail locations accepting MPEs.

To provide you with flexibility to use your meal plan to purchase food on the go, the Meal Plan Express program, or MPEs for short, can be used at participating Retail locations.

For each meal you use, a set dollar value is deducted from your purchase in participating retail locations (see MPEs participating locations and values).  Any balance remaining after the MPE credit is applied can be paid using food points, NovaBucks, Credit Card or cash.

For getting the most out of your meal plan, the all-you-care-to-eat dining halls offer the greatest value, selection and variety.  Use the MPE program when you cannot make it to one of the dining halls, when you need a meal on the go, or just crave something special from one of our retail locations.

Note: MPEs are not "additional" meals, every MPE comes out of your meal plan total.

MPE Values and Meal Periods

* MPE is accepted in The Recovery Room (Driscoll Hall) and The Curley Exchange (Bartley Hall) only when the applicable upgrade option is added to a meal plan.