Dining Services
The University has contracted with Chartwells, a professional food service corporation, to provide meals for students. Between food courts, all-you-can-eat services, convenience stores, cafes, and diner-style establishments, your choices for food are varied and wide. The Dining Service Director works closely with students and staff to ensure the dining needs of the University community are met.
The University’s meal plan is a hybrid declining-balance, all-you-can-eat program. Prepaid plans are available to residents, commuters, faculty, and staff members. Points in this program can be used for many purchases, ranging from entrees to snacks and ice cream to grocery items to convenience items such as toiletries and necessities. Meal plan points are applied to your SHUCard for ease of payment. Cash is another payment option for those not on a meal plan.
All first-year undergraduate residents are required to be on a “Big Red” meal plan. All first and second-year undergraduate commuter students are required to be on the "Jefferson" meal plan. All other undergraduate students are required to be on a meal plan at a level which is determined by their residence hall. Information concerning the meal plans is available through the Student Life Office.
Points may also be used at most other dining locations on campus as well as at all home football and basketball games.
Please refer to the Dining Services link on the Sacred Heart website for all dining locations, special menus, and their hours of operations.