Students enter the dining hall and swipe their ID cards once. During each meal, students may make unlimited trips through the food service lines, and eat as much as they desire while eating in the dining halls. Meal Plan Dollars may be used at designated Stanford Hospitality & Auxiliaries’ retail cafés or the Stanford Dining Late Night locations.

19 Meals/week Meal Plan - Students on this meal plan are able to partake of every meal that Stanford Dining serves.

14 Meals/week plus Meal Plan Dollars - Students begin each week on Sunday with 14 all-you-care-to-eat meals available to them. Each quarter, a set amount of Meal Plan Dollars are added to their ID card. Unused meals expire at the end of each week.

10 Meals/week plus Meal Plan Dollars - Students begin each week on Sunday with 10 all-you-care-to-eat meals available to them. Each quarter, a set amount of Meal Plan Dollars are added to their ID card. Unused meals expire at the end of each week.

Row House Meal Plan at Yost & Murray - Yost and Murray are two Row Houses that have an enhanced agreement with Stanford Dining; these residents have 11 meals/week served to them in their houses, and each resident is given a set amount of Meal Plan Dollars for every quarter. Each house has a discretionary budget to purchase snacks or other food supplies as agreed upon by the House and provided by the House student kitchen manager. These items are available only to House residents in the open kitchen. Students at Yost and Murray houses are responsible for the cleanliness of the kitchen, dining room and servery outside of Stanford Dining’s hours of operation.

Mirrieless Apartment Meal Plan - The Mirrielees Apartment Meal Plan is a voluntary meal plan designed for substantial flexibility and convenience for those students living in apartments. Students begin each week on Sunday with five all-you-care-to-eat meals which may be used at any Stanford Dining hall. Each quarter, 50 Meal Plan Dollars are added to their ID card which may be used in their entirety at any Stanford Dining location, including late night operations and designated Stanford Hospitality & Auxiliary cafés. Mirrielees students may also purchase one of the Stanford Dining full meal plans (listed above, except Yost/Murray).

Cardinal Dollars are added to your ID card and can be used in any Stanford Dining location and all Stanford Hospitality & Auxiliaries’ retail cafés.

Cardinal Dollars that are purchased in addition to a meal plan carry over from quarter to quarter, and from year to year. They do not have an expiration date.

Enrolled students can purchase Cardinal Dollars by logging into their account using the My Account option. On-line orders are charged to your University bill.

Students can also submit an order via email. Send the email from your SUNet account to diningplans@stanford.edu. Be sure to include your SUID number and how much you wish to purchase. Email orders are billed to your University bill.

Anyone may purchase Cardinal Dollars with cash, check or credit card by visiting Stanford Dining’s Customer Service Office located on the second floor of Tresidder Memorial Union, Suite 5, off the Meeting Services lobby. This office is open Monday – Friday, between 9 am and 12 pm.

For additional information, contact us at diningplans@stanford.edu, or by phone at 650-723-4751.

Stanford Dining is a non-profit University-managed auxiliary service that receives no subsidy from Stanford University. We obtain our revenues through our university dining halls, executive dining, and conference clients, and meet our costs by efficient management of revenue for food served and services rendered. Stanford Hospitality & Auxiliaries also helps provide additional revenue to Stanford Dining to keep the increases for the room and board rate as low as possible.

Where does your money go? Aside from the large portion devoted to the high-quality food we serve, the wide array of facilities we offer for your convenience, the extensive hours of service and the trained and courteous staff we employ at each location, there are some fixed general and administrative overhead costs that need to be covered for each student, each quarter. The overhead expense covers necessary costs like equipment, maintenance and repair, buildings and grounds, asset renewal, building renovations, utilities, labor and insurance for our locations, administrative office and residential education programs.