Dining Plans

2022/2023 Academic Year Trent University Dining Plans:

All declining balance dining plans can be used at all Trent University Food Service locations including: Lady Eaton College, Champlain College, Peter Gzowski College, Otonabee College including Pizza Pizza, Subway and Tim Hortons, Electric City Cafe in Gzowski College, the DNA Pod, The Seasoned Spoon, The Ceilie, The Trend at Traill College, Starbucks, the cafes in the Trent Athletics Centre and Bata Library, the Durham Dining Hall and the Otonabee College Annex Cafe.  Additionally, dining plans can be used to pre-order and pre-pay through the BOOST mobile order app.

Students living in a traditional dormitory room in Champlain College, Gzowski College, Lady Eaton College, Otonabee College, Otonabee College Annex, Traill College and the Durham residence receive the Traditional Style Dining Plan.

Students living in a suite style room in Lady Eaton Annex, Champlain College Annex, Gzowski College Annex and a limited number apartments in Lady Eaton College, Champlain College, Otonabee College and Traill College will receive the Suite Style plan. 

Students who are assigned a Suite Style plan can elect to have a Traditional plan by contacting the TrentU Card Office.

Dining plans are designed to meet your needs for the term(s) that you are in residence.  If you have a remaining balance at the end of your residency, the balance will automatically carry forward to all future terms on a taxable basis.  Any carry forward is gratuitous and your dining plan remains non-transferable, non-refundable, and has no cash value.

Special Dining Plans for Residents of Otonabee College Annex and Traill College:

Students living in Otonabee College Annex:

A $4,850 Traditional dining plan is applied with a single or double room in Otonabee College Annex.  The resident will be provided a dining plan that includes 3 meals per week on an all-you-care-to-eat basis in the on-site dining room and a declining balance dining plan that can be used at all Trent University Foodservice locations, on a tax-exempt basis.  All-you-care-to-eat meals include a single visit to the dining room in any given meal period, with a single hot meal and unlimited soup, salad bar, beverages, etc.  The 3 all-you-care-to-eat meals cannot be used on evenings when special theme dinners are held. On evenings when special theme dinners are offered residents can purchase the theme dinner using their tax exempt dining plan. The 3 all-you-care-to-eat included meals that are not used in a given week do not carry forward to future weeks. Unused meals expire at the end of each week and have no cash value and are non-refundable. Students who have eaten all of their meals in one week may purchase additional meals in the Otonabee College Annex Dining Room using their tax exempt declining balance dining plan.  If there is a balance of the declining balance dining plan at the end of the year the balance will carry forward to future years.  The dining plan has no cash value and is non-transferable, non-refundable, and has no cash value. 

The 3 all-you can to eat meals have a cost of $1,260.  The resident will have a declining balance value of $2,680. 

Students living in a traditional room at Traill College:

A $4,850 dining plan is applied to a single or double room in Traill College.  The resident will be provided a dining plan that inludes $1,000 Trent Cash that can be used at any of our restaurant partners on and off campus and $2,940 tax exempt declining balance dining plan that can be used at all Trent University Foodservice locations.  If there is a balance of the declining balance dining plan at the end of the year, the balance will carry forward to future years.  The dining plan has no cash value and is non-transferable, non-refundable, and has no cash value.

Trent University Food Services Dining Plan Locations:

• Lady Eaton College Dining Hall
• Champlain College Dining Hall
• Peter Gzowski College Dining Hall
• Otonabee College Dining Hall
  • Subway
  • Pizza Pizza
  • Tim Horton's
• Durham Dining Hall
• Electric City Cafe
• Starbucks (Student Centre)
• Bata Bean (Bata Library)
• '76 Sips Café (Athletics Centre)
• DNA Pod
• The Seasoned Spoon
• The Ceilie
• The Trend (Traill College)
• Otonabee College Annex Cafe
• BOOST Mobile ordering app

Trent Cash Food Locations:

• All Trent University Food Services Locations
• Peterborough
  • Pizza Pizza Delivery to Peterborough campus (call 705-749-1111)
  • Black Honey - off campus
  • The Whistle Stop - off campus
  • Cork and Bean - off campus 
  • YoYo's Yogurt Cafe - off campus
  • El Camino's - off campus
  • Osmow's Peterborough - off campus
  • Subway - At the Corner of Parkhill and Water Street
  • Subway - Water Street 
  • Taso's - off campus
  • Chaska - off campus 
• Durham 
  • Teddy's Restaurant
  • Subway

A complete list of all places where Trent Cash is accepted.