Meal plan or no meal plan..plus can someone explain garnet bucks compared to flex bucks?

Pasbal
Wed, 15 Jul 2015 02:59:07 +0000

The other campus dining options aren’t bad, but they suffer from the same issues that the dining halls have: poor hours (except for Denny’s, if Aramark actually keeps it running 24 hours), and after a while you just don’t want to go to a certain place for the 100th time, if that’s where you can eat.

Meal plans aren’t required to dine at any of those locations, and having one means you’re limited to VIP options (if you pay for that), your FlexBucks balance, or cash. If your kid has a meal plan, the first two are pretty limiting on what they can get.

Plus, if you get a meal plan for Fall, you have to buy one for Spring, whether you want to or not. You can always pay for one later in the semester (and it’s pro-rated), if you and your kid feel like it’s the best idea.