<p>The Panther funds can be used at a lot of the private eateries near campus. Look on the housing/dining page on the website and if you poke around there is a link to a list of who accepts panther funds. Right now I’m not sure if this is panther cash or dining dollars that they take, but the website for housing/dining will tell you. You can get panther funds/cash put on your id card that can be used on campus for food or non-food items (like the bookstore), and maybe these are the funds that can go off campus too. Like the list mentions stuff like CVS pharmacy and Blockbuster so that must be the panther funds, not the dining dollars.</p>
<p>I know they can use regular cash to pay for stuff off campus, but sometimes in our family it’s a way to control the budget, ie, cash that CAN"T be used for the mall, the movie theater, etc, and therefore is around to make sure you EAT.</p>
<p>Oh, one more thing. It’s a good idea to have some panther funds on the id card to use to do laundry. The laundry machines have card swipe machines so you don’t have to have quarters. That makes the laundry process a whole lot easier (unless the card swipe thingy doesn’t work! lol).</p>