USING YOUR DINING PLAN
Meal Taps
Using Your Dining Plan: Your dining plan is linked to your credential account. Simply tap your credential at the dining venue entrance to access your meals.
United Table at PHC:
- Enjoy a buffet-style dining experience with a wide variety of options.
- This is the main dining location for residents with meal plans.
- Non-residents are also welcome to dine here by paying at the entrance.
Dietary Concerns:
- Delicious Without: Available in United Table at PHC, and Urban Bytes at Kahlert Village, this option features meals prepared avoiding the nine most common allergens.
Location: Urban Bytes is an all-you-can-eat dining room situated on the first floor of Kahlert Village.
Payment Options:
- Use your dining plan.
- Pay with card or cash at the entrance.
What to Expect: Urban Bytes features a diverse menu with daily rotating options and multiple stations, including:
- The Nook: All-day breakfast
- Carrots: Salad bar
- 500 Degrees: Oven-fired pizza
- Taqueria: Tacos, burritos, and more
- Delicious Without: Allergy-friendly meals
- Mongolian Grill: Custom stir-fry
- The Game: Sports grill favorites
Dietary Concerns:
- Delicious Without: Available in United Table at PHC, and Urban Bytes at Kahlert Village, this option features meals prepared avoiding the nine most common allergens.
Meal Transfers
Value of Transfer: Each transfer tap is worth a specific amount and can be used for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
How It Works: When you use a meal tap at a different campus location, it covers a specific amount. If your total exceeds this amount, you can cover the difference with Flex Dollars or cash. For more details visit our rates page.
Restrictions: Meal taps are only applicable for food and drink purchases. Items like toilet paper, soap, laundry detergent, and medicine available in the Honors Market are not eligible for meal transfers.
Meal Transfers: Students can transfer one meal per meal period to a different location. Additional meals within the same meal period should be used at United Table at PHC or Urban Bytes at Kahlert Village.
Transfer Meal Periods:
- Breakfast: 1:00 a.m. - 9:59 a.m.
- Lunch: 10:00 a.m. - 4:29 p.m.
- Dinner: 4:30 p.m. - 12:59 a.m.
All University of Utah Dining Services locations are transfer eligible except Panda Express and England Hub Bistro. Full list here.
Flex Dollars
What Are Flex Dollars? Flex Dollars function like a debit balance loaded onto your student credential account, allowing you to purchase food and other items on campus.
Usage and Transfer:
- Transfer: Flex Dollars carry over between semesters.
- Expiration: They are no longer usable after the end of the academic year.
Benefits: Flex Dollars provide you with greater flexibility and access to a wide range of food options and other items.
- Crimson Corner at the Peterson Heritage Centers
- The Honors Market in the Marriott Honors College
- City Cafe in Kahlert Village
- Miller Cafe in Lassonde Studios
- Carolyn's Kitchen in Gardner Commons
- The Union Food Court
- Mom's Cafe & Mom's Pantry in the Marriott Library
Boost Mobile
Your mobile ordering app on campus! Order ahead at a variety of locations on campus.
Select a dining location, view the menu, and select a time to pick up your meal. You can check out with your credential account!
- Download the app from the Apple Store or Google Play onto your mobile device.
- Sign up using your UMail account
- Set up your campus card with your UNID
- Choose your location, add items to your cart, and check out!
- Pick up your items by following the boost traffic arrows at all locations. boost pick-up areas will be marked with signage!
- If ordering ahead using boost, DO NOT tap in at the door of the PHC Dining Room or Urban Bytes at Kahlert Village)
- Grab your order and head out to enjoy!
Starship
Dining Services has partnered with Starship to launch its innovative food delivery service, using autonomous personal delivery devices (PDDs). Order and pay for food for delivery from the Starship app.
- Download the "Starship Food Delivery" app from the App Store onto your mobile device.
- In the app, you’re presented with things to buy from U of U dining locations.
- Drop a pin on a map selecting where you want to receive your delivery.
- Once you’ve paid, a person at the store packs a robot with your order, and you can track your robot as it travels to you.
- Once the robot arrives, you get a notification to say it has arrived. Then use your phone to unlock the robot via the app.
- The robot then travels back to work on its next delivery!