On 1 September 2025, we will be switching our canteens and cafeterias entirely to cashless payment systems. Contactless payment and the elimination of cash will enable faster checkout processes and also improve safety and hygiene.
As before, payment in our canteens and cafeterias will be possible with student chip cards, staff chip cards and EC/credit cards.
Students and staff at the universities we serve are advised to continue paying with their chip cards. This is a necessary requirement in order to receive, for example, the student price in the canteens, the 10% student discount in the cafeterias or the meal allowance that many universities grant their staff.
The chip card can be topped up in the following ways:
- at the top-up machine with an EC card
- via autoload with PayPal directly at the cash register
- with an EC/credit card at the information point or at the cash registers in the cafeteria or canteen
- The locations in Esslingen and Göppingen are excluded: here, the chip card can be topped up at the top-up machines at the respective university.
In future, (external) guests will be able to pay easily with an EC/credit card at our facilities.