Dining Plans

Students living in Potomac State College of WVU operated resident halls are required to purchase a Resident Student Dining Plan as an integral part of WVU’s nationally recognized resident life experience. Students living off campus are not required to purchase a plan but many students each year choose to. Convenience, service, cost, and quality are some of the reasons our meal plans may be a good choice for you too.

No. Plan costs are based on food costs, labor, and other operating costs incurred during the current semester. Therefore, unused meals do not carry over to the following semester. All meal plans are averaged out with estimates made for possible missed meals calculated into the cost. Someone on the 21-meal plan will likely miss more meals than someone on the 15- or 10-meal plans and their average cost per meal is reflective of that likelihood.

Yes, Dining options are available 7 days a week with the exception of holidays and university closures.

There are 17 weeks in a semester and over 300 meals are served by our professional staff each semester.

Our management staff constructs the menus each year with input from the main campus’ Executive Chef and staff dietitian. We incorporate feedback from students into the process to help determine items that work well and items that may be less popular. Balanced nutrition, variety and cost are also considered when building our selections.

Dining plans represent a contract between the plan holder and WVU Hospitality Group. We base our costs on the purchase agreement. Allowing others to use your card could seriously jeopardize our ability to provide quality products and services.

Dining Dollars roll over to the spring semester with the purchase of a spring dining plan, but expire at the end of the academic year.

All meal plans begin on Saturday at breakfast and ends the following Friday night. Meals do not carry over from week to week.