Using Your Meal Plan – Housing & Residential Education

PHC

Urban Bytes

Students eating at the PHC dining room

Our dining plans are stored on your credential account and must be presented at the time of dining. Tap your credential at the entrance and you're on your way! The PHC Dining Room offers buffet-style dining and has the most variety in Heritage Commons. Residents with meal plans primarily use their meals here, but anyone can dine at the PHC by paying at the entrance.

Dietary Concerns? Delicious Without in the PHC Dining Room where meals are prepared without the eight most commons allergens.

Urban Bytes is an all-you-can-eat dining room located on the first floor of Kahlert Village. You can use your meal plan here or pay with card or cash at the entrance.

Visit Urban Bytes for a daily rotating menu with a variety of stations like The Nook for all-day breakfast, Carrots for a salad bar, 500 Degrees for a oven-fired pizza, Taqueria for tacos, burritos, etc., Delicious Without, Mongolian Grill, The Game for a sports grill, and more!

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Students utilize a dollar value of a meal from your meal plan at another location on campus to purchase food and drinks. If food and drink purchases are over that amount, residents can use flex dollars, dining dollars, cash, or debit/credit for the remaining amount.

Plans Eligible: Plan 15, Plan 21, 150 Block, and 40 Block. Note: Meal Transfers are not eligible with Plan 8. Plan 8 utilizes Flex Dollars and Meal Taps.

You are able to transfer a meal by selecting up to the dollar amount below in food and drink purchases only; there are other items sold in the Honors Market that are not food items, such as toilet paper, soap, laundry detergent, and medicine, which are not included in the Meal Transfer Program.

If the meal purchase costs more than the transfer amount designated for that location, students may choose to use Flex Dollars, Dining Dollars, or USD to pay the difference.

Breakfast: $5.75
Lunch: $7.75
Dinner: $7.75
*The typical ticket price for meals was utilized to identify the meal transfer rate.

Students will be able to transfer one meal per meal period to another location, while additional meals within that meal period can be consumed in the Peterson Heritage Center or Kahlert Village dining rooms. Miller Café in Lassonde Studios is open 24-hours a day, so the meal periods have been identified to consider the 24-hour operation:
Breakfast: 2:31 a.m. — 10 a.m.
Lunch: 10:01 a.m. — 4:29 p.m.
Dinner: 4:30 p.m. — 2:30 a.m.

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Set-up & Use

Boost Mobile App

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!

Robot Delivery

Set Up & Use

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!

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Flex dollars work as a declining debit balance loaded on to students' credential account so students can purchase food and other items. Flex dollars transfer between semesters but are no longer usable at the end of the academic year. Flex dollars allow students to access a wider variety of food options.