<p>any upperclassmen NYU students?
how would you describe your campus-dining experience so far.</p>
<p>10 is enough.</p>
<p>10 is MUCH more than you need</p>
<p>could you elaborate that?</p>
<p>i know this is threadjacking but would you recomend the 10 m/w or 175 flex? thanks</p>
<p>serioiusly, you won't use 10 meals a week. It's so easy to get food outside of the dorm room. Think about all teh restaurants, and other food places you can go to grab food.</p>
<p>what if I am on a budget? I plan not to spend more than $30/week on food.</p>
<p>bump (10char gotta go)</p>
<p>There are plenty of places you can eat out on on a budget. You can get a slice of pizza or a falafel for $2. There is so much amazing food around you that it is really really hard to use the 10 meals up. The money you save on a small meal plan is much better spent on eating out, even if it's just occasionally.</p>
<p>can you change your meal plan after one semester?
lets say you take the 19 meal plan for the first term of your freshman year till you get used to the restaurants and cafes outside.. just in case.. can you change after xmas break? or anytime during the academic year?¿</p>
<p>What's the deal with campus cash...or declining dollars...or whatever the hell those deals are? Can I eat at any restaurant in the area? Is Flex good for off-campus restaurants? Idk if going 10 is gonna be enough; I too have a limited budget.</p>
<p>when do we decide on meal plans anyway?</p>
<p>I believe everyone is automatically assigned the 14 plan, then we modify them starting in August?</p>
<p>Albert (10char)</p>
<p>Alright, some of you CLEARLY don't know what you are talking about. Comments like "The money you save on a small meal plan is much better spent on eating out, even if it's just occasionally." make absolutely no sense. Since you eat 21 meals per week, eating out 11 times a week is more than just eating out "occasionally." Also it costs 3250 for 10 meals/week and 3500 for 19. Clearly it makes more sense to spend the extra 250 to get 9 more meals per week when the original 10 cost 3250 if you are on a budget. There is the pricing <a href="http://www.nyu.edu/housing/payments/mealplan.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.nyu.edu/housing/payments/mealplan.html</a></p>
<p>well, the thing is, you're really probably not going to eat breakfast 7 times a week, and even the days you do, it'll probably end up being brunch. So honestly, most days you'll probably be eating only 2 meals. Also, campus food sucks, and it's nice to have a little variety once in a while. Plus, you get 250 declining dollars, which can be used to by cereal, noodles, stuff like. 19 meals is way too much.</p>
<p>would you recomend a straight meals per week plan or the flex plan?</p>
<p>hey, i was just speaking from my own experience. i originally signed up for the 21 meal plan, and i was sick of the campus food after a week. so i switched to 10, which was still to much, but the minimum for my dorm, and it was great. i had 250 declining dollars, which i used to buy poptarts or cereal which i used for a quick breakfeast, and lasted a long time. i also used them for dining hall stuff like sushi and starbucks, which aren't on the meal plans. you have less declining dollars with the highr meal plans, and they are what you really use. </p>
<p>Back to the thing about eating out- like kyang said, it's just really nice to have variety. I'm sure i didn't spend more than the 250 or so i saved on the meal plan eating out. I just enjoyed the food ALOT more than had i ate it at the dining hall. Thats what a meant by a better value.</p>
<p>I would suggest fixed per week plan because they are a better value--you get more declining dollars. Plus, it's not that they dictate when you can eat, it's just you're not allowed to eat more than once during a meal time (eg if you ate at 7 am, you can't eat again until 11 because it still counts as breakfast) and honestly, you're not going to want to eat again so quickly. Your stomach needs to recuperate after downstein.</p>
<p>get a flex plan. here's why:</p>
<p>if you have early classes, you might get breakfast, but then you'll get hungry after that boring lecture, but not enough for a full meal. so you'll get a snack after. sure you can use declining dollars, but those are gonna run out by the second or third month of the semester. thats where the beauty of the flex plan comes in. you don't have to worry about the dining hours that restrict the weekly plans. those hours are (i have them memorized)</p>
<p>breakfast: 7am -11am
lunch: 11am - 4pm
dinner: 4 pm - 9pm
late night: 9pm - 1pm (my personal favorite)</p>
<p>also, if you have friends visit, but dont have time to take them out to a restaurant or anything, swipe-em with your id card for a meal...as many as he/she/you/they want/need. and swipe for you roommates too, its good to be nice. </p>
<p>the 10 meal a week plan is not enough. it starts on sunday, so figure you eat 2 to 3 meals a day, you'll be out by wednesday. on my worst days, i was out by tuesday night. not a good position to be in.</p>
<p>note that you won't eat out as often as you think. i know i didn't. </p>
<p>and yes, the food does get old after a while, but what did you expect? the food comes from one company. its like that everywhere. but what makes the difference is how its prepared - and here's a list of the best and worst dining halls imo.</p>
<p>dining halls to go avoid:
downstein - crappy service, decent to bad food</p>
<p>dining halls to go to:
kimmel - food prepared the best, although not all you can eat. this is where the flex plan pays off. decent service
palladium - on par with kimmel, service is ok too.
upstein - the better of the weinstein food eateries. service is good, depending on which station you go to - the guys that work the quiznos line are hilarious
HAYDEN - food is ok, but that isn't why you eat here. the service is easily the best there is in all of NYU dining. the people that work there know you by name (if you're friendly), are usually always happy (or seem to be anyway), and if you're lucky, will hook you up with free meals (i can't even count the number of times they did this for me). also, they're renovating it over the summer, so it'll be even sweeter than before, plus one of the cooks, ricky, went to culinary school for the summer, so expect even better food.</p>
<p>i dont know about rubin or 3rd north, never been there. </p>
<p>yeah, i went a little off-topic, but hey, now you know more about nyu dining and the hours of operation. get a flex plan, the ability to eat whenever you want makes it better than the rest.</p>