dining services

Menu and Hours

Bruin Cafe

Fall, Winter, and Spring Terms
Monday-Thursday
Lunch 11am—1pm
Dinner 5:30pm—7pm

Summer Term
Lunch 11am—1pm

Bruin Café is the main campus cafeteria located in the Student Center. Meal plans, cards, and Bruin Bucks accepted.

Bruin Blend

Monday-Friday
Lunch 7am-3pm

Bruin Blend is a coffee bar offering coffee drinks, tea, smoothies, and food items. Bruin Blend is located inside the Game Room in the Student Center. Card or Bruin Bucks accepted.

Bruin Market

Bruin Market has a wide array of grab-n-go food and basic necessity items available at all times the Student Center is open. Card or Bruin Bucks accepted.

Pricing at Bruin Café

(Bruin Dining is a cashless facility. Students may purchase a meal plan on their student account or load Bruin Bucks to their ID badge. See the instructions below in FAQ).

Walk-in all-you-can-eat price: $10.65 (+ tax)

A la carte items: (also included in all-you-can-eat)

Fountain drink: $1.99 (+ tax)
Seasonal soups: $3 per 8 oz cup or $4 per 12 oz bowl (+ tax)

Sign Up for a Meal Plan

Meal plans are charged and loaded to your ID badge on a term-by-term basis. Non-housing students have two options to choose from:

4 Meal Plan: $455 per term
8 Meal Plan: $910 per term

Email Residence Life that you would like a meal plan at residencelife@bellevue.edu. We will coordinate with Bellevue University Security Department to obtain an ID badge, and will add the charges to your student account and load the meals on to your ID badge.

Bruin Bucks FAQs

Prior to using your Bruin Bucks account, you must have a physical ID card from Campus Security (call 402.557.5000 to schedule) and provide your 8-digit student or employee ID number while the card is being programmed. The system will create your account overnight and be ready the next day for use following the below instructions.

Select the Bruin Bucks chicklet in your Bruin Connect dashboard.
On the Bruin Dining Portal page, click on “Student & Staff Login” on the left menu.
Navigate to “Make a Bruin Bucks Deposit” on the left menu.
Follow the prompts to select the deposit amount, add an email address for the receipt, and “Continue to Payment” to provide billing information and credit card information.
Select “Pay” to complete.

Your Bruin Bucks balance will now show on the main “Student & Staff Login” page of your account. This balance can be used at any of the Bruin Dining facilities.

Select the Bruin Bucks chicklet in your Bruin Connect dashboard.
On the Bruin Dining Portal page, click on “Student & Staff Login” on the left menu.
Navigate to “Personalize” on the left menu and select “Grant Guest Access.”
Select “Add” to grant access to a parent.
On the next page, provide the parent’s email address and check all the permissions you would like to grant to the parent and click “Add” to complete the permission request.

After a student gives parent access, an email will be sent From: Bruin Dining Portal, Subject: Guest Access. The email will have a custom link to the Bruin Dining Portal and log in instructions with a temporary password to be changed for later access.
Be sure to check junk and spam folders. The email sends immediately.
Once into the Bruin Dining Portal via the link, click on “Parent/Guest Login” and use the log in information provided in the email.
Navigate to “Make a Bruin Bucks Deposit” on the left menu
Follow the prompts to select the deposit amount, add an email address for the receipt, and “Continue to Payment” to provide billing information and credit card information.

This balance can be used at any of the Bruin Dining facilities.

Meal Plan FAQs

Your student funding (financial aid or scholarships) must be awarded and available for the applicable term in order to charge a meal plan to your student account. Verify with scholarships@bellevue.edu whether or not your scholarship covers a meal plan.

If you do not have eligible funds available to cover your meal plan, or if you are a cash paying student, you will have to make full payment at the time you purchase a meal plan.

dining services

Pricing at Bruin Café

Sign Up for a Meal Plan

Bruin Bucks FAQs

What are Bruin Bucks?

Are Bruin Bucks refundable?

Do Bruin Bucks expire?

How to make a Bruin Bucks deposit on the Bruin Dining Portal

How to grant a parent/guest access for Bruin Bucks deposits

How a parent/guest can log in to load money to a Bruin Bucks Account

Questions or technical issues?

Meal Plan FAQs

Do my financial aid funds cover the purchase a meal plan?

How are refunds for cancelled plans calculated?

What if I use my week’s allowance of meals before the end of the week? And do any unused meals carry over to the next week?

Can I come back and have more food at one mealtime?

May I share my food with someone else?

Can I take any food with me out of the dining area?