<p>For food in the dining halls do we pay as a buffet?</p>
<p>At some of the other colleges it is. And at some it isn’t. </p>
<p>OVT is a buffet style one. Argo was one, but it’s under construction.</p>
<p>Haven’t been the others.</p>
<p>During the summer most dining halls are buffet but during the year, all dining halls are the same and they are NOT buffet style.</p>
<p>You only pay per item. So if you’re buying a sandwich, it’s like $5.25 (they’ve probably raised the prices though). This system is convenient because you don’t have to swipe a whole “meal” every time you just want a snack.</p>
<p>^ i did not know. Thank you for clarifying :)</p>
<p>:) Np 10 char</p>
<p>No it isn’t buffet style during the regular school year. It’s buffet during the summer, but the food quality is 10 times as bad. Not worth it.</p>
<p>Wait, what? OVT isn’t buffet 
None of them are buffet, and to be honest, I think this is the best system for your money. I eat A LOT of food (3-5 meals a day + snacking) and I didn’t run out till mid-Spring quarter. Buffet restrains you to the number of meals you eat, and you can’t take stuff out if you can’t finish everything :/</p>
<p>In terms of meal plan, is there somewhere that lists everywhere we can use them?</p>
<p>Probably, but I can tell you wheree!
You can use your dining dollars (currency of which your entire meal plan consists of) at:
-Any Dining Hall (Plaza Cafe, OVT, etc.)
-Convenience/Snack Stores (POTS, Earls, Foodworx)</p>
<p>So stores like Yogurtland and the smoothie store near Price center, and the stores inside Price Center are not covered?</p>
<p>methinks it’s high time for you to peruse hds.ucsd.edu</p>
<p>I would prefer buffet. I wouldn’t expect fine cuisine. I’d be perfectly happy with thick burgers, ground beefs, eggs and chicken breasts…and fried catfish, but that’s mostly because I miss Alabama…maybe crawdads too.</p>
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Sounds fair to me. Grazers get hit hard at buffet places.</p>
<p>I like pay as you go for most things. Don’t get me started on cellphones and the silly system of buckets of minutes.</p>
<p>Nope, the “restaurants” at Price Center (Panda Express, Rubios, Bombay Coast, BK, Tapx…) do not take dining dollars, but you can use triton cash there (basically a school debit card that I found extremely unnecessary since you can just use your own debit/credit card. Triton cash is handy for laundry, though). Only the main school dining halls (OVT, Sierra Summit, Plaza…), Earls, and POTs take dining dollars.</p>
<p>Oh yes, and it sucks that those yummy coffee carts dont take dining dollars, else I’d drink it more often.</p>
<p>i was once addicted to the white chocolate mochas</p>