Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013
Full Menus with Nutritional Information
| Meal Plan Questions | Collis, Courtyard, and Novack Cafés |
Collis Market |
Every day there are four opportunities to use your plan meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Late Night to use your plan meals — a total of 28 opportunities each week.
You can only use one plan meal during a meal time slot.
Your Dartmouth I.D. will be “pre-loaded” with whichever number of plan meals you have signed up for. In most similar systems a plan meal is commonly referred to as a “swipe,” meaning you hand your I.D. to the cashier and they swipe it through the card reader where upon you have now paid for your meal.
You may use DBA or any other standard forms of payment to bring a guest, but you cannot give the guest your card to use.
The meal periods are:
Breakfast from 7:00 am to 10:59 am
Lunch from 11:00 am to 3:59 pm
Dinner from 4:00 pm to 8:59 pm
Late Night from 9:00 pm to closing time for venues that are open late.
Please note: These are not the hours of operation for any specific dining venue, these are times when the amount a meal exchange is worth changes, and the periods in which you can only use one swipe.
Breakfast: |
7:00 am - 10:30 am |
Lunch: |
11:00 am - 2:30 pm |
Dinner: |
5:00 pm - 8:30 pm |
After Hours:* |
8:30 pm - 10:00 pm |
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Sunday |
Monday - Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
Collis Cafe |
Closed |
7:00 am - 8:00 pm |
7:00 am - 2:00 pm |
Closed |
Late Night @ Collis |
8:00 pm - 12:30 pm |
9:30 pm - 12:30 pm |
9:30 pm - 12:30 pm |
8:00 pm - 12:30 pm |
Novack Cafe |
4:00 pm - 11:00 pm |
7:30 am - 11:00 pm |
7:30 am - 11:00 pm |
4:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
Collis Market |
12:00 pm - 9:30 pm |
11:00 am - 9:30 pm |
11:00 am - 9:30 pm |
12:00 pm - 9:30 pm |
Please note: These are standard hours of operation, but times will vary during some special weeks (holidays, beginning and end of term etc). During the term you can find up to date hours and menus by clicking here.
A swipe (plan meal) can be used at breakfast, lunch, dinner, or late night. If you decide you want to have lunch at Collis, you can use a meal exchange in two different ways. You can decide to get the meal-of-the-day, which is a package of popular favorite items (e.g. pasta, side, and a drink), or you can pick items a la carte up to the meal exchange rate for that time of day and use Flex DBA, charge or cash to cover any selections over the meal exchange value. Make sure to tell the cashier that you wish to use a meal exchange before your transaction.
$5.25 for breakfast or late night, $7.75 for lunch/brunch, and $10.00 for dinner.
DBA balances are part of the meal plan can only be used during the term when the meal plan is active, and does not “rollover” into the next term. Dining DBA cannot be used to pay for food to be delivered to or picked up by students after the end of the current term.
Dartmouth’s new plans are based on national best practices, and specific experiences in the dining programs at other Ivy League schools. One of the economic foundations of a “Pre-Buy” meal plan like ours is that you get a discounted meal price based on the fact that you are pre-paying for meals and Flex DBA. The more you buy the greater the level of discount you get. The total potential value of meals and the total amount of DBA on each plan is higher than the actual cost of the plan. One way of looking at this is that you have the potential to consume more meals and buy more food than you have actually paid for. The balancing part of that equation based on experience at other colleges, is students do not use every penny, and this is built into the pricing system. Regardless, the pricing is designed to provide a great value even if you don’t use every bit of your plan’s capacity.
Meal plans will be active by 5 PM on Tuesday, June 18th. Meal plans expire at 8:30 pm on Tuesday, August 27th.
All first year students will be assigned to the 20-meal plan for their first term. First year students can also request the BlockChoice180 plan for their first term. After the first term at Dartmouth, all students can choose the meal plan that is best for them. Spring Term meal plans should be requested before January 4th. '15s will be able to select their 13x meal plan in May. Fall Term meal plan requests will become available in July.
Meal plans can be changed until 4:30 PM on June 24th. Meal plans changed after meal plans start may be prorated from the time the change is processed. No changes can be processed after June 24th.
Requests to change your plan should be made online by going to the Dartmouth Card Office website. Requests are processed by hand and may not appear in your account for several days.
The BlockChoice options give students additional flexibility to spread their total number of meals throughout the term. As an alternative to the SmartChoice guaranteed number of meals per week, the BlockChoice options give you the ability to use up to 28 meals one week and 0 the next, up to the total number of meals provided per term in the plan you select. Meals are available under both plans from the beginning of the term through the last day of exams.
The SmartChoice plans guarantee a specific number of meals per week, ensuring that those on the SmartChoice plans have a guaranteed number of meals available each week, and enabling us to project the volume of demand from week to week throughout the term. As we said last year, the "pre-buy" nature of these plans allows for a discounted meal price. The more you buy, the greater level of discount you get per meal. For the BlockChoice plans, we presume that students will be consuming fewer total meals per term at each level due to travel plans or other factors that might affect the number of meals they want in any given week. In providing the flexibility to use up to 28 meals in one week and none the next, we are adding an element to the system that is less predictable from week to week, and we are reducing the total number of meals you buy at each level. That means that the level of discount you get per meal is lower.
You can use a swipe (plan meal) to buy the “meal-of-the-day” through meal exchange, or buy your food a la carte. Meals of the day will vary and will feature the venue’s most popular menu items (like the daily lunch special and stir frys at Collis). You can also use a meal exchange amount to select items a la carte, or make a la carte purchases with Flex DBA, Dartmouth Student Charge, DASH discretionary, cash, credit card, departmental charge, or an employee charge. Please note that credit card purchases may be subject to a minimum.
$5.25 for breakfast or late night, $7.75 for lunch/brunch, and $10.00 for dinner.
You can use Flex DBA, Dartmouth Student Charge, DASH discretionary, cash, or a credit card to pay the balance of your meal over the meal exchange value.
The short answer is that you don’t pay the full “door price” at ’53 Commons, so paying out that much in meal exchange wouldn’t work. Why is that? Dartmouth’s new plans are based on national best practices, and specific experiences in the dining programs at other Ivy League schools. One of the economic foundations of a “Pre-Buy” meal plan like ours is that you get a discounted meal price based on the fact that you are pre-paying for meals and Flex DBA. The more you buy the greater the level of discount you get. The total potential value of meals and the total amount of DBA on each plan is higher than the actual cost of the plan. One way of looking at this is that you have the potential to consume more meals and buy more food than you have actually paid for. The balancing part of that equation based on experience at other colleges, is students do not use every penny, and this is built into the pricing system. Regardless the pricing is designed to provide a great value even if you don’t use every bit of your plan’s capacity.
Collis Market will continue to provide the grocery items that students buy most. Adjusting the payment method to DASH discretionary, Dartmouth charges, cash and credit cards allows us to support more affordable pricing.
Flex DBA cannot be used to make market purchases. Collis Market will accept DASH discretionary, Dartmouth charges, cash and credit cards. Limiting it to these payment method allows us to support more affordable pricing.
