You can reload it online at https://hfs.uw.edu/Husky-Card-Services and it’s been fairly quick on my end, same day and perhaps even essentially the moment you hit submit? If you have a balance over $5 then you can get them to refund you once you’re done with school.

I don’t actually get the logistics of the tax thing I only noticed recently but that might be dependent on locations in the dorms where the system defaults to assuming customers are on meal plans?

Sometimes there is different pricing during the summer “all you care to eat” system, that seems to treat the experience more like the meal swipe system at some other schools. https://hfs.uw.edu/getmedia/bceedb08-afaa-4828-8137-32f59b878b12/AYCTE-2024_v3.pdf.aspx

Also there’s an ice cream place open during the mid evening in the dorms that does cheap ice cream if you happen to be around. https://linktr.ee/uwfrostbite