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Quick StatsFreshman Meal Plan Requirement
Yes - All campus residents are required to purchase a meal plan.
Average Meal Plan Cost
All-you-can-eat meal plan included in room and board
Other Options
- For in-between hours eating, students shove quarters into the vending machines in the Fens or the residence dorms. Students can put extra money on their ID card, known as Fenway Cash, and use the card at a number of nearby off-campus locations.
College Prowler Take
There are five locations for students to eat on campus. Bartol Hall is on the Residence Campus, and provides breakfast, lunch, and dinner for resident students. Students living on campus are required to carry a meal plan with at least seven meals a week. Bartol is a college dining hall, and while they try to jazz up the cuisine with ethnic offerings, they still cannot escape this fact. The dining hall is composed of a spotlight station, a salad, fruit, and ice cream bar, cereal dispensers, a sauté section, pasta and pizza, a vegetarian station, and heating-lamp-warmed main courses. The grilled cheese and burgers are tolerable. Students living off campus are known to sneak in the back door to feed themselves after missing Bartol’s free-for-all style. Vegetarians have their pick of pasta, the salad station, the hot item of the day, or a dish from the vegetarian station. Quadside Café in lower Smith Hall hosts live bands, pool, arcade games, and movie nights. The food matches this lax environment, with a snack bar within a convenience store. The convenience store keeps frozen meals, candy, and soda stocked. Late-night cravings are met with pizza, mozzarella sticks, and fries. At the Main Campus Building, a coffeeshop and miniature cafeteria provide food for students between class. The Fens has a grill station, home-cooking stand, salad bar, and pizza. The Fens is convenient for students stuck at the academic building and is preferred over Bartol. Visiting restaurants are invited weekly to spice things up. Students Speak Out
Love your school more than free food? Hate your school more than term papers?
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Anonymous says:  |
Food on campus is like any other...
Food on campus is like any other college food. You can’t complain about it because they have the best quesadillas, salads, and burgers. There is always something healthy to eat, and we have a late-night snack place that is very beneficial for late-night studying. |
Anonymous says: |
The food stinks, but there are...
The food stinks, but there are cheap eats around campus. |
Anonymous says: |
As a transfer student, I can say...
As a transfer student, I can say that the food on campus is much better than most dining hall food at other schools. The Residence Campus dining hall was great when I was living on campus. It was convenient. Again, because of the influx of first-year students, though, all residential services are understaffed and underprepared for the masses of students coming in for meals. Java City is great for coffee—but I’d rather spend the five minutes to walk to Dunkin’ Donuts and pay half that price. |
Anonymous says: |
Bartol is . . . interesting....
Bartol is . . . interesting. There are good days, and there are really bad days. The vegetables get to me, nothing seems too good. Weekends are the best, because you can double swipe (go in more than once during a feeding period), and the bacon is crispier. The Fens has the best food; their sandwiches rock, and if you get a wrap, make sure one of the ladies make it, because they’re the best wrappers. |
Anonymous says: |
The only dining hall is Bartol,...
The only dining hall is Bartol, and it has its good and bad nights. It usually depends on the day of the week. I tend to eat out or get take-out on weekends. A few students leave for the weekend, and so there are less mouths to feed, therefore, they think we shouldn’t eat good food. |
Dining Halls
Bartol Dining Hall
Cafeteria-style, made-to-order stations
Residence Campus
Monday–Thursday 6:30 a.m.–8 p.m., Friday 6:30 a.m.–7:30 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m.–2 p.m., 4:30 p.m.–7 p.m., Sunday 8 a.m.–2 p.m., 4:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Java City
Coffee, pastries, salads, sandwiches
Main Campus Building, College Center on first floor
Monday–Thursday 7:30 a.m.–9 p.m., Friday 7:30 a.m.–6 p.m.
Meyer’s Café
Coffee
Beatley Library, ground floor
Monday–Thursday 7:30 a.m.–8 p.m., Friday 7:30 a.m.–3 p.m.
Quadside Café
Snack bar and convenience store
Smith Hall, lower level
Monday–Thursday 8 a.m.–12 a.m., Friday 8 a.m.–1 a.m., Saturday 10 a.m.–1 a.m., Sunday 10 a.m.–12 a.m.
The Fens
Food court with Bene, Grille Works, Home Zone, Kettle Classics, Montague’s Deli, salad bar
Main College Building, lower level
Monday–Thursday 7:30 a.m.–8 p.m., Friday 7:30 a.m.–3 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m.–2 p.m.
Did You Know?
Quadside Café used to be a bar. The Fens welcomes local eateries for special variety during the week. Quadside Café is host to many student organization events. In between classes and studying, students can shoot a game of pool, watch television or a movie, and test their skills on arcade games.
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