Dining Services provides students with alternative to spend meal plan money
May 3, 2011
With the final days of the semester winding down, students have a lot of things to take care of, including spending the rest of the money on their meal plans.
Dining
Virginia Tech Housing and Dining Services has received numerous awards in the past few years. In 2009, it won the Restaurants & Institutions Ivy Award, a prestigious honor given by food industry peers. Dining also placed No. 1 on The Princeton Review’s Best Campus Food list in 2007 and 2009, in addition to placing in the top 10 in the past several years.
Students have a variety of choices of on-campus dining options that range from buffets such as D2 and Shultz, to coffee shops such as Au Bon Pain and Deet’s Place, to food courts such as Hokie Grill & Co., West End Market and Owens Food Court. As the student body grew and demand for dining expanding, more dining halls were envisioned. Construction is planned for a new dining hall on the academic side of campus, and its completion is scheduled for August 2012.
On-campus students have two options in their dining plans: the larger Mega Flex Plan and the smaller Major Flex Plan. Off-campus students can purchase the Minor Flex Plan at about half the cost of the larger plans. These three plans have a base cost that covers overhead costs with the remaining dollars eligible for a discount on food purchases. The Commuter Cash option gives $201 of cash without the dining discount.
Content on Dining:
Tech dining halls several weeks away from stocking tomatoes
March 17, 2011
Virginia Tech officials said the university could be as much as a month away from having a steady supply of fresh tomatoes for its dining halls.
Tech breaks ground on new dining center
February 10, 2011
Voracious students stumbling out of academic buildings craving a gourmet meal will be satisfied in 2012 by a new dining hall, Turner Place.
Wing warriors find love in saucy staples
October 19, 2010
No doubt about it, wings are delicious. It is my honest opinion, as both a human and consumer of fine chicken meats, the greatest end a “clucker” can meet is as a sauced-up hot wing.
Rolled-up raw meat wonders are adored by their sushi suitors
October 19, 2010
I have only had Poor Billy’s once, but I can certainly see why it won first place for Best of Blacksburg in the sushi category.
Late night munchies can be cured with cheese-covered breaded delights
October 19, 2010
The clock ticks toward 2 a.m. on a Saturday night, and you begin to look at your friends and give the indicative “It’s time to go” nod. As you begin to walk back from the party, everyone in your group suddenly looks at each other and blurts out those two
Top Chinese cuisine’s authentic flavors result in ‘happy’ customers
October 19, 2010
Imagine hot and sour soup on a cold Blacksburg day.
Mike’s Grill proves old-favorite, trumping Five Guys
October 19, 2010
Before the Five Guys loyalists get their tar and feathers ready, let me offer a disclaimer: I love the chain and its greasy, nutritionally indefensible mounds of beef. If this were Best of NOVA, I would be calling for Five Guys to take the top ranking.
Concession stands begin to assess local meal tax
September 30, 2010
At Virginia Tech's home football game versus East Carolina University, Tech charged the local Blacksburg meals tax on concessions for the first time.
Chefs face culinary challenge at farmers market cook-off
September 21, 2010
Three local chefs will whip out their cooking gear and enter in a culinary duel this afternoon, which is sure to be a palette-pleaser.