About Meal Plans

To provide students with flexibility when dining on campus, we offer five different dining plans with varying numbers of meals and flex dollars. Additionally, we offer Redbucks that can be used in all our dining venues.

Meal Plan Options 

Meal Plans have two very important parts: Meals for the semester and Flex dollars for the
semester. At the beginning of the semester, your total Meals and Flex dollars are loaded onto your
Southeast Student Account. Within dining locations, your Southeast Student ID acts as your debit
card to access your dining funds.

The Meals with your meal plan are for use within the three Meal locations: Towers Landing inside
Towers Residence Hall, St. Vincent’s Commons at the River Campus and Houck’s Place inside
Merick Hall.

To choose the best plan to fit your lifestyle, think about where on campus you will spend most of
your time and the locations you most enjoy eating at. For those that enjoy eating at meal locations,
a meal plan high in meals might be best – and for those that enjoy dining at flex locations on
campus might enjoy a meal plan with a higher balance of Flex dollars.

Students not living on campus, or living in Greek Village, are welcome to purchase a meal plan! To
purchase a meals only contract, visit my.semo.edu/residencelife.

Meal Plans (23/24)

Flex Dollars 

Flex Dollars accompany most meal plans in varying amounts and are used at any retail location (Subway, Starbucks, Panda Express, Rowdy’s, or Redhawks Market). Flex dollars can also be used at any meal plan location (Towers Landing, Houck’s Place, and St. Vincent’s Commons). They are held in a “declining balance account” that works on the same principle as a debit card. Each time you make a purchase, the amount is subtracted from your flex dollar balance. You can use your flex to purchase beverages, snacks or to purchase a meal yourself or for a guest.   

Flex dollars for fall semesters carry over to the spring semester. Flex Dollars from the spring semester do not carry over to the summer semester nor the following fall semester. Students wanting to purchase more flex dollars are able to buy Redbucks that work the same way as flex dollars. If a student changes from a plan with flex to a plan without they will lose the ability to use flex. You must have a plan with flex to use flex. 

Redbucks

Redbucks are the declining dollar amounts that go right onto your student ID. They save you time, money, and the hassle of leaving campus to get something to eat.

Redbucks come in increments ranging from $50 to $800 and come with a 5% bonus. 

For every Redbucks order over $100 you receive 5% back as Bonus Bucks to your account.

Bonus Bucks operate the same as Redbucks with two exceptions. You must use through your Redbucks account before you can use Bonus Bucks as payment, and Bonus Bucks are only valid for the semester that you purchase them.  

Redbucks can always be added to a meal plan and will carry over from semester to semester and from one year to the next.

Purchase your Redbucks today!