Live at UCSB (beta) · more schools coming

Never miss your your favorite foods again.

DormEats turns your college dining hall menus into personalized, AI-ranked picks. It's tuned to your dietary needs, proximity to each dining hall, and tastes.

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3 mins

to set it up

menus

in a nice UI

0 ads

and it's free

🔔 Get a notification for which dining halls have your favorite food before each meal (optional)

📈 Liked something you ate? ❤️ it so DormEats learns your taste.

4 halls × 2+ meals × 7 days
= too many decisions a week.

Which dining hall has the best options that I can actually eat? What does [random food] even mean? Is the bus to Portola worth it? DormEats takes all of that off your plate.

✦ How it works

Tell us about you

A quick setup that takes your dorm, dietary needs, allergies, and favorite cuisines.

DormEats dietary preferences onboarding screen

We fetch & enrich the menus

Every day, DormEats pulls fresh menus from your school and runs them through Gemini to add descriptions and tags.

You get ranked picks

Open the For You tab, or let a notification nudge you. Each hall comes with a short why-it-ranks explanation.

DormEats isn't just an LLM wrapper with a prompt. It's a daily data pipeline, a resilient AI layer, and a cache-first mobile client. Built by a UCSB Computer Engineering student.

Multi-AI failover

Resilient wrapper load-balances across providers and falls back on outage. Users don't notice.

Prefix-cached prompts

Prompts and data layouts engineered for prefix caching and pre-AI server-side caching.

Daily fetch pipeline

Per-college fetchers + AI enrichment write to MongoDB daily, optimized to minimize stale menus & cost.

3-tier caching & rate limiting

Cloudflare edge caching & Caddy reverse proxy. Cross-user server side recommendation caching.

Offline-first mobile

Flutter app with Hive-backed preferences and shared recommendation cache keyed by college + date + meal.

Smooth deployments

Docker Compose + caching strategy to minimize maintenance and API downtime on updates.

Flutter Dart Frog MongoDB Atlas Gemini API Cloudflare Caddy Hive Docker Compose

✦ Colleges

Starting at UCSB. Your school next.

Built to expand easily to other colleges. If your school posts menus online, we can probably support it! Tell us where to look.

Live now

UC Santa Barbara

De La Guerra Portola Carrillo Ortega

soon

✦ FAQ

Questions, answered.

Yes. DormEats is free for students. It's a passion project built to make taking full advantage of your college's dining halls a little easier.

Dining hall decided.
Go eat.

Download DormEats and get a personalized dining hall pick before every meal. Or just look at the menus, but in a nice mobile UI.

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Never miss your your favorite foods again.

Tell us about you

We fetch & enrich the menus

You get ranked picks

Interested in the technical stuff behind it?

Starting at UCSB. Your school next.

Questions, answered.

Is DormEats free?

Which colleges are supported?

How is the ranking actually done?

Do you sell or share my data?

Does it work offline?

Dining hall decided. Go eat.

Dining hall decided.
Go eat.