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The Pritchard Dining Hall is a dining hall located in the Nechako Residence at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna, British Columbia and serves as the primary eating facility on campus. The hall seats approximately 450 guests. It offers "an all-you-care-to-eat dining experience" with several food and beverage stations.

Timings
The dining hall is accessible from 7:00 am to 11:00 pm daily. Breakfast is served from 7:00 am to 10:30 am on weekdays and till 11:00 am on weekends. Lunch is served from 11:30 am to 3:00 pm daily. Dinner is served from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm daily.

Menu
The Pritchard dining hall boasts several stations serving various types of foods. It caters to all dietary restrictions and preferences on request if needed. The stations cycle through a weekly menu with different food each day. The set menu for each day is uploaded to and can be viewed here.

All Access Meal Plan
The "all-you-care-to-eat" dining allows the dining hall users the only pay once and eat as much as they want until they depart. This increases access of safe and healthy food to all students while also reducing buyer's remorse. This is referred to as the All Access Meal Plan. This meal plan is mandatory for all residents of Cassiar, Kalamalka, Nicola, Purcell, Valhalla, Skeena, Nechako, and Similkameen Place.

Diners without an All Access Meal Plan can also access the dining hall by either paying at the entrance or using the Swipe Plan.

Paying at the Entrance
Pritchard Dining Hall users can simply pay at the entrance of the dining hall to gain access for the duration that the dining hall is open for a meal. The price for breakfast is $10.50, the price for lunch is $14.50, and the cost of dinner is $18.50.

Swipe Plan
The Swipe Plan is available to purchase for campus visitors, staff, faculty, students living off-campus, or students living in Lower/Upper Cascades and Monashee Place. This allows diners to purchase a set number of meals which can be accessed through their UBC Student ID Card. 25 Swipes cost $344.38 + GST, 50 Swipes cost $652.50 + GST, and 75 Swipes cost $924.38 + GST.

Construction and History
The Pritchard Dining Hall began construction as a part of the Nechako Residence in the spring of 2019 and was completed in spring of 2021 with a budget of $50.950 million for construction. The building's architecture was lead by Sahuri + Partners Architecture and Teeple Architects. The Project Manager was UBC Properties Trust and the Construction Manager was Sawchuck Developments.

The Nechako Residence and Pritchard Dining Hall opened to students and faculty for use in September 2021 at the beginning of the 2021 Winter Academic Session.

The dining hall is named Pritchard to honor the Colin & Lois Pritchard Foundation, which donated $1.25 million to the University of British Columbia Okanagan which will "create new endowment funds to support generations of nursing students and fellowships linked to clinical research." A $1 million fund - matched by the university - will be used to establish annual Pritchard Fellowships for UBC Okanagan's clinical research graduate students.

The Colin & Lois Pritchard Foundation, founded in 2007, has contributed to the university's health program in the past as well.

Nechako Residence
The Nechako Residence building in the University of British Columbia is located between the the University Center Building and Plaza and the Commons Field. The building is LEED Gold Certified.

The residence is 6 stories high with residence in the top 4 floors, housing a total of 220 students. Each residential floor also consists of a common lounge for use by all floor residents, which includes a seating area, television, and kitchen amenities. The 1st floor consists of the Pritchard Dining Hall and kitchen, whereas the 2nd floor contains conferences rooms, study rooms, the Orchard convenience store, the university mail room, the business operations office, and the university front desk.