Food Services

The Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall menu combines a healthy blend of traditional, home-style comfort foods and retail offerings to satisfy a wide range of student food preferences. Our menu structure is flexible in nature, giving students an opportunity to try various cuisines in response to their own requests.  For more information, visit our food services website at www.dineoncampus.ca/upei

Students will be able to enjoy a wide variety of traditional comfort foods. Fresh, finished-to-order entrées and regularly featured carvery items will tempt many. Fresh crisp salads will be available from our Raw Power salad bar, and fresh baked goods, bagels, and gourmet coffee will help complete a very satisfying meal. Let’s not forget about fast food favourites such as regularly featured submarine sandwiches, personalized pizza, and gourmet French fries!

  • Healthier Eating
    Our menus and recipes are reviewed by Chartwells Educational Dining Services dieticians and have been designed to meet the Canada Food Guide for Healthy Eating. This has involved the use of leaner meats, lower fat dairy products and dressings, and cooking with herbs and spices as a tasty substitute for salt. We ensure that whole grains are plentiful—breads, cereals, muffins, brown rice, and pasta. Salads, vegetables, and fruit are always choice and fresh. Every day there is a wide selection of Healthier Eating choices with nutrient analysis available. Any special diets will be dealt with promptly by our Food Services Director. Vegetarian offerings are on the menu for both lunch and supper meals.
  • Meal Plans
    As outlined in the Residence Life Agreement, residents of Bernardine Hall and Andrew Hall are required to purchase a meal plan. Meal plans (5- or 7-day) have been created to satisfy any appetite. These plans allow students unlimited (but regulated) access to the Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall during the scheduled hours of operation. Blanchard Hall residents who wish to take advantage of our food services may purchase one of the above plans, or may choose one of the other plans made available by Chartwells/UPEI Food Services.
  • Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall Hours of Operation
    Meals are served daily at the Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall from the beginning of the academic year through until the end of exams. The meal plan program is adjusted on holidays and weekends, meeting the needs of our residence students.

    Students have continuous access to the Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall from 7:00 am to 9:00 pm Monday to Friday, and from 10:30 am to 9:00 pm Saturday and Sunday with reasonable adjustments to these hours on holidays.

    Students with 5- and 7-day meal plans receive $100 in retail cash per term, which can be used at the Courtyard Café and AVC Café. Retail cash can also be used to buy birthday cakes and student care packages from Chartwells. Students who purchase flexible meal plans may also receive an amount of retail cash (amounts differ per plan). Unused retail cash can be carried over from first term to second term, but all retail cash must be used by the end of the academic year as there are no refunds.
  • Accommodating Meals for Guests
    Quite often, students are visited by family and friends. The Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall enables visitors to purchase meals using the same menu program as those students on a Meal Plan (all you care to eat). In addition, students with an activated meal plan may use the retail cash portion of their meal plan to treat a guest to a meal at the Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall.

    Students are reminded that the unused portion of the residence meal plan is not transferable to subsequent weeks for themselves or to friends and guests. For example, in week 10, if a student on a 5-day plan only uses 4 of the 5 days, the unused 5th meal cannot be transferred to a following week for themselves or for their friends and guests.
  • Policies
    In order to accommodate the number of students who use the Dining Hall, the following policies have been established for Dining Hall use:
    • Entry to the Dining Hall is conditional upon presentation of a valid UPEI Student ID that has been authorized for meal plan access or cash payment for that particular meal. Student IDs with meal plans must be taken to every meal as students will not be granted access without this card.
    • Meal plans are non-transferable and may not be used by anyone else, even if you are absent from the campus and not using the card. Lost Student ID cards will be replaced at the UPEI Sport Centre—Photo ID centre at a cost of $20.00.
    • Unlimited servings of all present menu items are available to all meal program participants; however, please take one serving and come back for seconds. You are welcome to come back as often as you wish.
    • No food is to be taken from the Dining Hall, but students are permitted to consume whatever is available on the menu while in the Dining Hall.
    • Eating utensils, china, cutlery, etc., are not to be taken from the dining room.
    • Footwear, shirts, and pants must be worn in the servery and the Dining Hall.
    • Conduct of patrons must not interfere with another's right to the quiet enjoyment of the facilities.
    • Students are expected to return their trays to the bus carts when they have finished dining.
    • Smoking is prohibited in the Dining Hall.
    • No alcoholic beverages may be consumed in, or brought into, the Dining Hall.

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    Feedback from You!
    The University and Chartwells always welcome comments, complaints, and suggestions regarding the meal plan program. At times it may be as easy as speaking directly to the Chef and/or Manager on duty, or filling out a Comment Card and depositing this card in the designated area in the Dining Hall.

    You may also send an e-mail to residence@upei.ca outlining your question, comment, or concern, and you can be certain to get a response from either the University or Chartwells, depending upon the issue on your mind. Don't be shy. Your question may be on the minds of others, too, and the solution may very well benefit everyone participating in the residential dining program.