dining services

Bruin Bucks are pre-paid dollars you can load to your Bruin Dining Portal account, or are provided automatically as part of a housing meal plan, that can be used as a form of payment at all Bruin Dining locations

Bruin Bucks included in a meal plan can rollover from term-to-term, but DO expire annually at the end of the fiscal year on June 30.

However, Bruin Bucks purchased directly through the Bruin Dining Portal DO NOT expire.

1. Select the Bruin Bucks chicklet in your Bruin Connect dashboard.
2. On the Bruin Dining Portal page, click on “Student & Staff Login” on the left menu.
3. Navigate to “Make a Bruin Bucks Deposit” on the left menu.
4. 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.
5. Select “Pay” to complete.

1. Select the Bruin Bucks chicklet in your Bruin Connect dashboard.
2. On the Bruin Dining Portal page, click on “Student & Staff Login” on the left menu.
3. Navigate to “Personalize” on the left menu and select “Grant Guest Access.”
4. Select “Add” to grant access to a parent.
5. 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.

1. 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.
2. Once into the Bruin Dining Portal via the link, click on “Parent/Guest Login” and use the log in information provided in the email.
3. Navigate to “Make a Bruin Bucks Deposit” on the left menu
4. 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.

Contact Residence Life at residencelife@bellevue.edu with questions or technical issues.

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.

Refunds for cancelled plans will be prorated based on the day of cancellation using a term refund calculator – regardless of meals consumed or remaining options per day. Meal plans cannot be cancelled or refunded after the last day to withdraw in each term.

Meal plans begin on Monday and end on Thursday. There are 8-meals provided each week, if you do not use your meals, you lose them. They do not carry over and expire each wee

Students are only allowed to swipe their card once per mealtime. You can have ‘all-you-can-eat’ during one sitting, but you cannot leave and come back for another meal during that mealtime.

Sharing your meal plan, or food from your meals, is strictly prohibited at Bruin Dining. You may not give your ID card to a friend to use or purchase them a meal with your card. In order to keep costs down, we need full compliance with these rules. Violations will be treated as a conduct case with the Dean of Students or you may be at risk of losing your meal plan eligibility.