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Dining on Campus
UMass/Amherst Dining Services
http://www.umassdining.com/
413-545-2472

Award-winning Dining Services offers innovative, nutritious and contemporary menus with a wide selection of choices at four Dining Commons (DCs) and at over 20 dining locations across campus.  From display cooking, traditional and international dishes, comfort foods, pizza, grill items, pasta, salad, sushi, and omelet bars, to noodle bowls, vegan and vegetarian selections; UMass Dining provides an array of options to fit the dietary needs and desires of students.  Menus, designed by a task force of students, managers, chefs, registered dietitian, pastry chef, and executive chef, are based on sound nutritional guidelines, surveys of student food preferences, mystery shoppers’ reports, and comments from students and staff.

The four DCs are open seven days a week during the semester (with the exception of holiday and vacation periods) and serve students with all-you-care-to-eat dining options.  Dining is continuously available from 7am until midnight and all DCs have wireless internet available.  If you do not have time to dine, the Grab n’ Go program allows you to pick your favorite sandwiches, salads, snacks and beverages to enjoy on the run.  The retail dining operations located across campus offer generous hours of operation and a creative array of traditional, international, comfort food and contemporary cuisine menu items.   

The Residential Meal Plans offer meals in the DCs with a set number of guest meals and exchanges to be eaten in the retail operations.  Your Campus Meal Plans (YCMP) offer the choice of eating in any of the DCs or in any of the over 20 retail dining operations located across campus.  However, the retail units are not all-you-care-to-eat operations so students are limited to a certain dollar amount when eating in retail. 

All meal plans are optional, however, they are available to graduate students and they include:

Residential (DC) meal plan		Meals/Semester		Price
Value		224		$2,103
Unlimited		N/A		$2,502
YCMP		Meals/Semester		Price
Platinum		200		$2,071
Gold		100		$1,053
Commuter		60		$642

Kosher meals are available for an additional $200 surcharge to any meal plan.  Kosher meals are available Sunday to Friday at Franklin DC.  Halal dinners are available Monday to Friday at Worcester DC at no additional charge.

Meal Plan Changes
Meal plans may be changed during Add/Drop period only or an administrative fee will be assessed. 

Refunds
Students who withdraw from the University will be given a refund based on the Registrar’s Office refund schedule.  A student who is suspended or expelled from the University for disciplinary reasons forfeits all rights to a refund.