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Beverage Rewards Program

Each year, millions of disposable cups and lids end up in landfills after just one use. As part of Cornell Dining's Sustainability Action Plan, we're taking steps to reduce the use of single-use disposable containers.

Our Beverage Rewards Program offers a reward drink of your choice after you buy ten beverages — including brewed hot coffee, iced coffee, cold brew, tea, iced tea, specialty espresso drinks, and fountain drinks — at our retail locations, when you use your clean reusable beverage container. (If your mug or other container is excessively soiled, we reserve the right to tell you you can't use it until you wash it.)

Just ask the cashier for a punch card, and you'll earn a punch with each purchase of any of these beverages using your clean reusable cup, mug, or tumbler, as well as a 15% discount. Fill up your punch card and you'll earn a reward drink. (The program doesn't include shakes, bubble tea, or smoothies, and doesn't include bottled or canned beverages.)

Existing punch cards from our previous beverage program can be exchanged for a new punch card, and we'll transfer your existing punches to the new card for you.