NDSU Dining vs Papacitos
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NDSU Dining
Access detailed dining hall menus, including nutritional and allergy information. View operating hours, serving times, and real-time occupancy for dining centers.
- View daily dining menus
- Access nutritional information
- Check allergy details
- See operating hours
- View serving times
- Monitor live occupancy
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View breakfast, lunch, dinner, and late night menus from West, Residence and Union dining centers at North Dakota State University. You can also view nutrition information as well as allergy information. As well as viewing menus, you can also view hours of operation and serving times and the live occupancy of the dining centers.
Papacitos
Easily reorder your favorite meals with just a few taps. This app simplifies the ordering process and keeps a detailed history of all your past purchases for quick access.
- Easy ordering
- Quick reordering
- Order history tracking
- Save favorite orders
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With Easy Ordering, you can quickly place your favorite orders with just a few taps. Reordering is made simple, allowing you to conveniently reorder your favorites from your order history. Plus, you can effortlessly keep track of all your previous orders with the Order History feature.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Papacitos at 100% against NDSU Dining's 44%. Papacitos also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0). NDSU Dining's advantage is ratings volume (25 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Papacitos holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NDSU Dining has 25 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of NDSU Dining's written reviews are positive against 100% of Papacitos's.
NDSU Dining ships an update every 5 weeks, Papacitos every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NDSU Dining | Papacitos |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (25 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.2 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | North Dakota State University | Craver Solutions Inc. |
Customer experience
NDSU Dining
Papacitos
In-app purchases
NDSU Dining
No in-app purchases
Papacitos
No in-app purchases
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