Beginning Sunday, Food Court will deliver food from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. to all campus locations and students can charge their purchases to a College Identification card.
A service charge of $1 will be added to each order. The menu will be distributed to students through Hinman mail and accessible through the "Dining Services" BlitzMail bulletin.
Most items served late night at Food Court will be available for delivery, such as sandwiches, pizza, grill items, baked goods, frozen yogurt and beverages.
Students can place orders by sending a BlitzMail message to "Food Court" and by including a delivery address.
Dartmouth Dining Services will offer delivery Sundays through Thursdays only.
"We won't be delivering on Fridays and Saturdays because most students are out and wouldn't need deliveries," said Brenda Rangel '95, Food Court's late night operations assistant. "It would not be profitable for us to deliver on weekends."
Students can either charge orders or use their declining balance accounts. Punches will not be accepted.
Food Court Manager Beth Jones said, "The $1 charge will hopefully discourage students from placing very small orders," Jones said. "It is also a way for the delivery staff to receive tips without the students having to pay cash."
Jones said two Food Court employees, Sean Sullivan '95 and Kai Richter '95 approached her with the idea for DDS delivery last spring.
Sullivan said Dining Services unsuccessfully attempted a delivery system several years ago at A La Carte, a dining hall that closed in 1992 in a DDS restructuring that created Food Court.
"Food Court has a lot more to offer than A La Carte did and we also have a larger staff and more equipment to handle this type of operation," Sullivan said.
She also said Food Court wants to provide a dependable system. "We aren't going to not deliver because we are understaffed or because the weather is bad - we are committed to delivering five days a week," Sullivan said.
Food Court is providing bicycles with attached carts for their delivery staff, Jones said.
Jones encourages students to request return receipts when they blitz their orders so they will know when their orders are received.
"Someone will be sitting at a computer at Food Court monitoring incoming orders," Jones said. "The orders will then be filled, packed and sent out for delivery."
Because dining halls close early during the Summer term, Sullivan said delivery will not be available then.
