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Comparable Schools'
Campus Dining Grades:
Quick StatsFreshman Meal Plan Requirement
Yes
Average Meal Plan Cost
$2,200 per semester
Student Favorites
- Mango & Manny's Market Place
- Nikos
- Wendy's
Other Options
- Most of the places in the food court are only open for lunch, but Sbarro, Subway, and the Rat are usually open later.
College Prowler Take
The school has two dining halls, both with pretty standard college buffet food. The variety sounds good—pizza, pastas, made-to-order sandwiches, hamburgers, hot dogs, fries, salads, and ice cream are only a few of the daily staples—but nothing is of very high quality. Most students don’t mind the food at first, but they get really sick of it sometime around Halloween of their freshman year. This is about how long it takes to realize that all the different foods have the same greasy taste. Even the salad and the ice cream are almost indistinguishable if you don’t look at them. Freshmen usually start with the comfortable 14-meal plan, which allows for 14 meals at the dining hall per week. Unless you were raised on Sizzler, you’ll probably drop that to the eight-meal plan for your second semester, which is the minimum UM allows for a student living on campus. Either plan gives the student “dining dollars” that can be used like a debit card at the restaurants on campus. The 14-meal plan comes with $150 in dining dollars per semester, and the eight-meal plan gets you $200. This money is pretty valuable since UM has an excellent selection of fast food restaurants on campus. There’s a food court with Nikos, Panda Express, Jamba Juice, and Starbucks, and there’s even an overpriced take-out sushi bar if you feel like blowing all your dining dollars on the first day. Other places to eat include Sbarro, Subway, and the Rathskeller, a sports bar and popular meeting place. If you don’t use all of your dining dollars by the end of the semester, you can always head over to the campus convenience store and spend the remainder on junk food and prehistoric donuts. Students Speak Out
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Anonymous says:  |
The dining halls are, contrary to...
The dining halls are, contrary to popular belief, actually not that bad. The food quality is usually decent (though the menu gets repetitive). If the dining halls are not what someone wants, there is also the on-campus Subway, Taco Bell, Starbucks, Jamba Juice, Sbarro, Panda Express, and more. |
Anonymous says: |
The dining hall food is alright....
The dining hall food is alright. It gets repetitive, but the Stanford Dining Hall is really nice. The food court is nice. At the food court, there is a Taco Bell, a sandwich place, Chinese food, sushi bar, juice place, mini-Starbucks, and an ethnic food place. |
Anonymous says: |
I like the dining halls because...
I like the dining halls because there are a lot of choices, and you can either eat healthfully or not; whatever you like. Besides the dining halls, dining on campus gets really boring because there is only one other food court, and the menu there doesn’t vary much. We do have an on-campus Friday’s-type place students call the Rat. |
Anonymous says: |
Food in the food courts is...
Food in the food courts is alright, although sometimes not as good as at the same places off campus. The dining hall is horrible. |
Anonymous says: |
The food does get old after a...
The food does get old after a while. Fast food restaurants on campus are hot spots, with names like Taco Bell, Sbarro, and Subway. |
Dining Halls
Satellite Carts
Chips, cookies, soda, and other snacks for between classes
Various walkways and courtyards around campus
Monday–Friday 8 a.m.–2 p.m.
Sbarro
Pizza/Italian
UC
Daily 11 a.m.-12 a.m.
Panda Express
Chinese
Hurricane Food Court
Monday–Thursday 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Friday 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Salsarita's
Mexican
Hurricane Food Court
Monday-Thursday 10:30 a.m.-7 p.m., Friday 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
Stanford Dining Hall
Buffet
Next to Stanford Residential College
Monday–Thursday 7 a.m.–9 p.m., Friday 7 a.m.–7 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m.–7 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m.–7:30 p.m.
Wellnes Center Juice Bar
Energy drinks, juice, smoothies, protein bars
Wellness Center
Monday–Thursday 7:30 a.m.-10 p.m., Friday 7:30 a.m.-7 p.m., Saturday-Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Wendy's
Fast food
Hurricane Food Court
Monday-Thursday 10 a.m.-10 p.m., Friday 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Starbucks
Coffee, pastries
Near Richter Library
Monday-Thursday 7 a.m.-11 p.m., Friday 7 a.m.-8 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m.-9 p.m.
Subway
Sandwiches, salads
Law School
Monday–Thursday 7 a.m.-12 a.m., Friday 7 a.m.-10 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m.–8 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m.-8 p.m.
Olo Sushi
Sushi
Hurricane Food Court
Monday-Thursday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Friday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Jamba Juice
Smoothies
Hurricane Food Court
Monday–Thursday 8:30 a.m.–7 p.m., Friday 8:30 a.m.–4 p.m.
Jenkins Snack Bar
Monday-Thursday 7:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Snacks
Jenkins School of Business
Convenience Store
Snacks
UC
Monday–Thursday 7 a.m.–2 a.m., Friday 7 a.m.-4 a.m., Saturday 9 a.m.–4 a.m., Sunday 9 a.m.-2 a.m.
Convenience Store
University Village
Monday-Thursday 8 a.m.-10 p.m., Friday 8 a.m.-11 p.m., Saturday-Sunday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.
Snacks
Mahoney/Pearson Dining Hall
Buffet-style options
Next to Mahoney/Pearson Residential College
Monday–Thursday 7 a.m.–9 p.m., Friday 7 a.m.–7 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m.–7 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m.–7:30 p.m.
Nikos
Mediterranean
Hurricane Food Court
Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Friday 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
The Oasis
Monday-Thursday 8 a.m.-7 p.m., Friday 8 a.m.-3 p.m.
Kosher deli
UC
Mango & Manny's Market Place
Caribbean
Hurricane Food Court
Monday-Thursday 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Friday 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Market Square
Salad bar, soups
Hurricane Food Court
Monday–Friday 11 a.m.–4 p.m.
Did You Know?The dining halls stay open late once per semester for a “midnight breakfast” to help students who are up late studying for finals.
The dining halls are stocked with current issues of the student newspaper, as well as free copies of the local papers and USA Today for students to read while eating.
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