All new residential first-year & transfer students sign up for a meal plan during the housing application process. Returning resident students select their meal plans during the room selection process. Commuters may purchase a Block Plan directly from UT Dining Services through the main office or online, or may choose a Resident Meal Plan, which are purchased through Residence Life.

Your meal plan and meal exchange program is designed for your personal use only. If you wish to host friends or family for meals, you may use Spartan Dollars or UT Dollars. Your Spartan card is only usable by you.

Resident Meal Plans Meals can be used at any dining location on campus excluding Panache, Sips, and the Rathskeller. Meals can be used at Ultimate Dining, or as meal exchange combos in the Spartan Club (located in the Vaughn Center), Starbucks Reserve locations, as well as Morsani Hall retail locations (excluding Sips). Spartan Dollars can be used at all dining locations as cash equivalent. Commuter Meal Plans Meals can be used at Ultimate Dining only. UT Dollars can be used at all dining locations as cash equivalent. Meal exchange combos are not available for Commuter Meal Plans.

Spartan Dollars

This form of cash equivalent currency is included when you purchase a resident meal plan, and offers flexible spending on purchases at all campus dining locations. Spartan Dollars must be used during the semester for which they are purchased.

UT Dollars

This form of cash equivalent currency can be purchase at any time. UT Dollars are used in the same manner as Spartan Dollars at all campus dining locations. The difference is that UT Dollars carry over from semester to semester for the duration of your time as a student and/or employee of the University of Tampa. You can add UT Dollars to your Spartan Card at any time by calling Dining Services at (813) 258-7257, or online by clicking here.

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The Carte Blanche meal plan provides you with unlimited access to our Ultimate Dining facility with up to 3 retail meal exchanges per week.

Our traditional resident meal plans (15, 12, 7) provide you with a set number of meals for the entire week that can be used at any time at Ultimate Dining or as retail meal exchanges.

Carte Blanche plans are allowed unlimited access to Ultimate Dining and for this reason carryout is not allowed on this plan.

New Spartan Cards may be obtained from the card office in the Vaughn Center. Click here for Spartan Card Office Information.

As soon as you know that your Spartan Card has been lost or stolen, please notify Dining Services to deactivate your account and prevent unauthorized purchases on your meal plan. After you have received a new Spartan Card, Dining Services can reactivate your meal plan at your request.

If you have lost your Spartan I.D. card during business hours, please visit our dining office with a valid photo I.D. (license, passport, credit card with photo) or present your Workday profile showing your Student ID number and active meal plan to receive meal vouchers. If you have lost your Spartan I.D. card, please present your Workday profile showing your Student I.D. number and active meal plan to the cashier. You may also email dining@UT.edu or call (813) 257-3088 to receive meal vouchers.

We offer an assortment of vegetarian and vegan items on campus. Our Simple Servings station at Ultimate Dining provides safe food choices for our guests with food allergies, celiac disease, and those who prefer simple foods. All items served at this station are prepared with ingredients that do not contain milk, eggs, wheat, soy, fish, shellfish, peanuts, tree nuts, sesame, or gluten. Our Executive Chefs are always happy to meet with students to go over our menu options to see what fits the student's dietary needs.