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Staff and faculty can enjoy discounts and convenience with Cornell Dining's MealChoice meal plan

Designed exclusively for Cornell faculty and staff, Cornell Dining's MealChoice meal plan offers convenient, cash-free access to Cornell Dining's eateries, campus vending machines with card readers, and Ithaca-area restaurants and stores participating in City Bucks. What's more, MealChoice users can enjoy discounts on their meals.

MealChoice is available all the time, but summer affords a terrific opportunity to explore eateries all over campus. The Hot Dog Cart and Ice Cream Bike are open weekdays outside Day Hall beginning June 12th, McCormick's at Moakley House has patio seating as well as indoor tables, and dining rooms and cafés are a little less busy between semesters.

People seated at and standing around outdoor tables on a patio outside a building
Plenty of patio seating at McCormick's Restaurant at Moakley House.

Lunch at the dining rooms

Enjoy endless all-you-care-to-eat variety at our residential dining rooms for just $9.50 for lunch, Monday through Friday! This new price, our first increase in six years, goes into effect on July 1st, 2025.

Ask for a MealChoice punch card at the door, and when you pay for ten dining room lunches with MealChoice, your 11th lunch is free.

This summer, Morrison Dining on North Campus and Okenshields on Central Campus (beginning June 23rd) are open for lunch. During the academic year, there's even more variety to choose from!

Discounts for other meals

Beyond the $9.50 weekday lunch, MealChoice offers a 10% discount off the door price for any other breakfast, lunch, or dinner at the residential dining rooms, and a 10% discount off all of your purchases at Cornell Dining's cafés, food courts, convenience stores, and more.

Use around campus

You can also pay with your MealChoice account at the Statler Hotel's Terrace Restaurant and Mac's Café, and at most campus vending machines with card readers.

Start using MealChoice today!

All full-time faculty and staff are automatically enrolled in MealChoice, and can simply add money to their MealChoice accounts to begin taking advantage of the program.

You can swipe your Cornell ID card at any of our eateries to pay with your MealChoice balance, or use the GET My Card feature of the GET app to show a scannable bar code. Just tell the cashier or door checker you're using MealChoice.

Check Cornell Dining Now to see today's lunch menus at our dining rooms, and to see what other eateries are open near you.

About Cornell Dining

Cornell Dining is consistently ranked in the Princeton Review's top ten for best campus food among all colleges and universities in the country! That high rating comes from customer surveys, and reflects Cornell Dining's commitment to serving high-quality foods that are healthy and creatively prepared with genuine care for a diverse community. Cornell Dining operates about 30 on-campus eateries -- which include residential dining rooms, cafés, coffeehouses, food courts, and convenience stores -- and serves more than 23,000 meals a day to members of the Cornell community. For more information, visit dining.cornell.edu.