Meal Plan Terms and Conditions

Please read the following items and consider your options carefully when making your meal plan decision.

• Meal plan contracts are available to all undergraduate, graduate, and medical students. Consistent with Brown's commitment to the residential college, all resident undergraduates (except RUE students) are required to participate in a meal plan throughout their first full year of enrollment. Voluntary participation in a Brown food co-op does not fulfill the first-year meal plan requirement.
• Upper-class students are automatically contracted and billed for the meal plan they had the previous year. Although billed by semester, meal plan contracts are in effect for the full academic year.
• Students who wish to change, or upper-class students who wish to discontinue their meal contract should indicate their preference on the Selection Card mailed home in the summer.
• Upper-class meal plan contracts can be canceled in person at the Dining Services administrative office at 144 Thayer St. A fifty dollar ($50) non-refundable administrative fee will be charged to a student's University account for any meal plan contract canceled after September 6, 2011. No meal plan contract can be canceled after September 28, 2011.
• Meal plan contracts may be changed only once each semester and a change precludes cancellation. The contract change deadline for Semester I is September 28, 2011. The contract change deadline for Semester II is February 15, 2012. There is a ten dollar ($10) administrative fee for a meal plan contract change submitted after September 6, 2011.
• Any refund due from a meal plan contract change or cancellation is credited to the student's University account on a pro-rated basis.
• The Bursar's Office will not process meal plan contract changes or cancellations. You must contact Dining Services directly or in person for any action pertaining to meal plan contracts. Omission of board contract fees from payments to the Bursar does not constitute cancellation of a meal plan contract. Late charges will apply unless Dining Services is contacted directly.
• Meal plan contract meals and FlexPlus Points are non-transferable. It is a violation of both Brown and Dining Services policy to loan out your ID card.
• A maximum of two meals per day can be converted to "credits" in retail eateries.
• Students receive FlexPlus Points as part of each dining account in the amounts noted on the Meal Plan page. Additional points may be purchased throughout the academic year.
• Unused meals are forfeited when you switch from a Flex plan to a Weekly plan.
• Unused meals and FlexPlus Points are forfeited at the end of the applicable academic year, i.e. on the last day of final exams.

Questions concerning the terms of Meal Plan Contracts may be directed to the Brown Dining office, 144 Thayer St. You can also call (401) 863-3876.

Brown Dining also has established Policies for standards of conduct in our dining halls and retail eateries.