These prices can go up, though, if students don't use all of the meals on the plan.
Few students eat all of the meals on their meal plans.
I had 30 left over last semester, but I usually have only about 10 left over each semester. According to Noaleen Ingalsbe, director of Food Services, there are several places that the money from the uneaten meals goes. Some of the money goes to buy a surplus of food. This overforecasting results in leftover food, but Ingalsbe said this is necessary so that Food Services will never run out of food and leave anyone to go hungry. There is a law against it.