<p>How do they work exactly? I get you can go to the dining hall as many times as you want a day, but what about the restaurants and cafes? Are those under the meal plan too or do you pay cash at those places?</p>
<p>you’re given 50 flexi dollars a quarter. these dollars can be used to purchase anything at restaurants/cafes on campus. the dollars also transfer from quarter to quarter, so if you have $40 left over from fall quarter you’ll have $90 during winter quarter.</p>
<p>You can go to the dining hall as many times as you want if you have the 5day or 7day, both come with $50 flexis. If you have the other meal plan (55 and 77 or some numbers like that), then you can go to certain restaurants and use one meal. </p>
<p>One meal = $8, so it’s in your best interest to use as close as you can to $8. So if you are eating at Owl’s Nest and want to use a meal, you want to get $8 so you get one meal’s worth. If you go a little over, you can use your flexi’s to cover it instead of using two meals. If you go under $8, you are still charged 1 meal. This only works at Owl’s Nest and Oake’s Cafe. All the other restaurants you need to use flexis or cash.</p>
<p>wat are the diffrence btw the meal plans and is it all u can eat?</p>
<p>but if I have the 7 day meal plan those places are just considered flexi dollars places?</p>
<p>@dchaves07 Yeah, the restaurants/cafes only take flexis $ (or real $) or meals from the 55/75 meal plan. You can’t apply a 5 or 7 day meal plan to food bought at cafes. But the 5 or 7 day meal plans offer unlimited access to dining halls (and unlimited food) for those 5 or 7 days.</p>
<p>@leungizer The 55/75 meal plans give you only 55 or 75 entries to any dining hall. Once in, you can stay as long as you want and eat as much or as little as you want, but you if you leave and come back in, it counts as another meal. The 5 day or 7 day meal plans give you unlimited entry (as well as flexi dollars and a certain number of guest meals). The 5 day works M-F and the 7 day works all week. If you are living on campus, I recommend the 7 day.</p>
<p>I liked that the dinning halls are per-entry, not per-item, so I didn’t have to worry about points per meal/item and all the other hassles that most other campuses have.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>wat bout the prices btw all these meal plans</p>
<p>More than Owl’s Nest and Oakes Cafe take meal equivalency dollars. Banana Joe’s and Terra Fresca also take them. No idea about Hungry Slug since they still don’t have the website updated that it’s open now. I don’t recall seeing the “Dining Equivalency 55/75” sign, though.</p>
<p>Also note that you’re paying for those flexi dollars. I know some of the charts for costs don’t have the $50 included (but they’ll note when it’s not included). You have no choice to have them added to your card so you’re automatically billed at the start of each quarter for them. But I love flexis. Flexis are awesome.</p>
<p>5day and 7day are good if you eat like me (several small meals a day or just wanting to run in for a quick soda). The 55 and 75 plans are good if you don’t think you’ll use it much so you can “cash out” the last of your meal plans at Banana Joe’s on grocery items or something at the end of the quarter.</p>
<p>Leuzinger2010: [UC</a> Santa Cruz - Dining Meal Plans](<a href=“http://www.housing.ucsc.edu/dining/meal-plans-2010-11.html#rates]UC”>http://www.housing.ucsc.edu/dining/meal-plans-2010-11.html#rates)</p>
<p>The costs are included when you look at your housing options too.</p>