Weekly Meal Plans
For the 2024-2025 academic year, students have the opportunity to choose from 10, 14, 19, or 24 meals per week, plus $50 or $100 Add-on Dining Dollars. Add-on Dining Dollars provide extra meals, snacks, or food from any of the on-campus dining locations.
The 24 Meal Plan
- Students can eat during 24 of the 28 meals offered each week.
- Designed for the student who regularly eats 3-4 meals a day and/or will stay on campus most weekends each semester.
- Offers the lowest average cost per meal.
The 19 Meal Plan
- Students can eat during 19 of the 28 meals offered each week.
- Designed for the student who regularly eats 2-3 meals a day and/or will stay on campus most of the weekends each semester.
The 14 Meal Plan
- Students can eat during 14 of the 28 meals offered each week.
- Designed for students who regularly eat 2 meals a day and/or stay on campus about half of the weekends each semester.
- This is the most commonly chosen plan by UW-W students.
The 10 Meal Plan
- Students can eat during 10 of the 28 meals offered each week.
- Designed for students who are light eaters, 1-2 meals per day, or for those students who go home most weekends.
Fall 2025-Spring 2026*
| Meal plan | Price per semester | + 50 Dining Dollars per semester | + 100 Dining Dollars per semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Meal Plan | $1,537 | $1,587 | $1,637 |
| 14 Meal Plan | $1,566 | $1,616 | $1,666 |
| 19 Meal Plan | $1,604 | $1,654 | $1,704 |
| 24 Meal Plan | $1,644 | $1,694 | $1,744 |
*Pending Board of Regents approval
Weekly Meal Plans allows one meal to be eaten during a breakfast and late-night meal period. You may use two meals per lunch and dinner. There are 28 meal periods per week: breakfast, lunch, dinner and late night, seven days a week.
|
Meal Periods |
Time |
Total Meal Swipes Allowed |
Meal Equivalency Swipes Allowed |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Breakfast |
7:00 am-11:00 am |
1 |
1 |
|
Lunch |
11:00 am-4:00 pm |
2 |
1 |
|
Dinner |
4:00 pm-9:00 pm |
2 |
1 |
|
Late Night |
9:00 pm-Close |
1 |
1 |
Check out Warhawk Dining for hours of operation!
Meal Equivalency allows Weekly Meal Plan participants the flexibility to use their meal plan in retail dining areas outside of the All You Care To Eat locations: Drumlin, Esker, and the University Center’s Ike Schaffer Commons Breakfast.
- What is a meal equivalency swipe?
- A meal equivalency swipe of $7.50 is applied to the total purchase.
- One meal swipe will be deducted from your weekly meal swipe allotment (10, 14, 19, or 24).
- What happens if I go over the meal equivalency rate when making a purchase?
- Any amount over the meal equivalency rate must be paid for by using Dining Dollars, Purple Points, Cash or Credit Card.
- For example, if your purchase total cost is $9.00, you may use your meal swipe for an equivalency rate of $7.50 and the remaining $1.50 would have to be paid with any of the options listed above.
- Any amount over the meal equivalency rate must be paid for by using Dining Dollars, Purple Points, Cash or Credit Card.
- What happens if not all of the meal equivalency rate is spent at time of purchase?
- Meal Equivalency rates are not redeemable for cash. Any amount under the meal equivalency rate of $7.50 will not receive the difference.
- For example, if your total at the time of purchase is $6.50, you will not receive the remaining $1.00 that was unused.
- Meal Equivalency rates are not redeemable for cash. Any amount under the meal equivalency rate of $7.50 will not receive the difference.
- When can I use meal equivalency?
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- Meal Equivalency can only be used once per meal period.
- Meal Equivalency can be used at any on-campus dining location outside of the All You Care To Eat locations, with the exception of Thought Station (Andersen Library) and Victory Station (Williams Center).
A student on a weekly meal plan (10, 14, 19, or 24) has the opportunity to use that number of meals each week. The unused meals do not accumulate or roll over and do not figure into a refund.
Weekly Meal Plans are not available for use during academic break periods; such as Thanksgiving, winter break, and spring break. These academic break periods are not built into the cost of the Weekly Meal Plan.
Dining Dollars are accepted during winter and spring break periods.
Important Meal Plan Dates: 2024-2025
Check out Warhawk Dining for hours of operation.
There are 21 different dining concepts across campus spread out to 7 dining locations, including one location at UWW Rock County.
Residence Dining - All You Care To Eat locations
To use a Weekly Meal Swipe at an All You Care to Eat location, simply tell the cashier you want to use a meal swipe. The student’s HawkCard will be swiped upon entry and one meal swipe will be deducted from the student’s Weekly Meal Plan account. There are three All You Care to Eat locations on the main campus:
- Drumlin Dining Hall
- Esker Dining Hall
- Ike Schaffer Commons (UC) - Breakfast only
Retail Dining Locations - Meal Equivalency
Meal Equivalency is a program that allows students the flexibility to use their Weekly Meal Plan across both campuses. All of our Retail locations are set up in an ‘a la carte’ style. When Meal Equivalency is used, one meal swipe will be deducted from the Weekly Meal Plan account at the time of payment. The Meal Equivalency is in the amount of $7.50 and any amount above the $7.50 will need to be paid by Dining Dollars, cash, or credit.
If you are purchasing items separately, Dining Dollars can be used instead of, or in addition to a meal swipe.
There are some restrictions as to when the Weekly Meal Plan can be used. For more information, reference the Warhawk Dining website.
Guest Meals are “bonus meals” in addition to your Weekly Meal Plan allotment. Guest Meals can be used at any time throughout the semester in our All You Care To Eat dining locations. Guest Meals are not accepted as part of Meal Exchange. Unused Guest Meals do not rollover.
Make sure you let the cashier know you want to use a Guest Meal(s). Both the account holder and guest(s) must be present.
Guest Meal Counts:
10 Weekly Meal Plan = 6 Guest Meals per semester
14, 19, 24 Weekly Meal Plans = 8 Guest Meals per semester
Can students buy more if they run out?
- Additional Guest Meals cannot be purchased. All on campus dining locations accept cash, credit cards, Dining Dollars and Purple Points.
Can I use my guest swipes on myself if I am out of meals on my weekly meal plan?
- Both the account holder and guest(s) must be present at time of purchase.
Can I still use my weekly meal plan on my guest if I am out of guest swipes?
- Your weekly allotment of meal swipes can only be used by the account holder.
- There are multiple ways you can check your Weekly Meal Plan balance:
- Any dining location. The cashier can complete a balance check when asked.
- Stop by the HawkCard Office
- Online using the Online HawkCard Office
- Download the app for extra convenience. Search for “Transact eAccounts” in your phone’s app store.
Yes. Meal plan changes will be accepted during the second and third weeks of fall semester and the first two weeks of spring semester. Changes are effective the following Monday. Changes to a meal plan may be made in person at the HawkCard Office (UC 250) or by using our online change form which is active during the change period.
*Students that are required to have a meal plan but have not signed up for one will automatically be enrolled in the 14 meals per week and $50 Add-on Dining Dollars.