<p>can somebody explain the caltech meal plan to me</p>
<p>like, how many meals per day
how many days per week
etc</p>
<p>The standard non-Avery meal plan gives you;</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Approximately $400 of declining balance per term to buy breakfast, lunch, and late-night food with from Chanlder, Red Door, and the C-store. </p></li>
<li><p>Buffet-style dinner from the Chandler kitchen.</p></li>
<li><p>$8 of free declining balance to spend at Avery per week. </p></li>
</ol>
<p>In addition, you can get free food from open kitchen in the North Houses. (3pm-5pm)</p>
<p>The Avery meal plan gives you over $1,000 of declining balance, but you have to pay for everything, including dinner.</p>
<p>The C-store is open seven days a week, and the other places five days per week.</p>
<p>GracieLegend2??</p>
<p>And so you can get free dinners at the North Houses even if you aren't a member?</p>
<p>how does dinner at the south houses work right now with the renovation?</p>
<p>halfthelaw- You can eat dinner anywhere. Most people choose to do so with their own House.</p>
<p>nocloud- Exactly how I stated in my last post. The only difference is that North Houses eat dinner in their own houses, while the South Houses do so in certain parts of Chandler.</p>
<p>Everything else is the same.</p>
<p>what happens when the south houses move back, where will dinner be then?</p>
<p>^ in the South Hovses' respective dining halls.</p>
<p>GracieLegend's description of dinner is currently accurate for the South Hovses, but not for the North. In the North Houses, dinners are served family style, NOT buffet style. You come into the House's dining hall and sit down at the tables and student waiters (members of the house who get paid) bring out trays piled high with whatever is for dinner that night. If you need more, you just raise your tray and they'll get it for you. You can also go into the kitchen to get food from the pasta bar, salad bar, or vegeterian bar. </p>
<p>This was the way food was served in the South Hovses before the renovations and will presumably be the way it is served when they move back. HOWEVER, this is a money sink for CDS (because they end up with far more leftovers than they would with buffett style), so they have been looking into ways to change the system slightly to save money. Whether or not any changes occur is highly debatable since students really love the family dinner style of eating and would probably fight hard to keep it.</p>
<p>Blacker (a south house) also has family style dinners. I don't know about the other 3.</p>
<p>All the south houses have family style dinners. I think Gracie is referring to the considerable proportion of students that opt to go early and get buffet-style dinner instead of attending house dinners.</p>