Friday, September 26, 2014

Where'd All the Food Go?

               Say you’re studying for a tough exam that’s coming up in of your harder classes. You study most of the afternoon and into the evening. Somewhere in all that studying you just happened to lose track of time. Then you realize that it’s 9 o’clock, and you’re really hungry by this point. Too bad, unless you have some money and time to spend you’re not getting any food tonight.
               That’s right Blazer closed at 8 each night, so it looks like that all you can eat buffet is out of the question. I’ve actually talked with one of my friends who works at Blazer, and he says that they are really understaffed most of the time. This might be a big reason of why they aren’t really open that late.
               But wait what about the Student Center. Nope, all the restaurants within the Student Center also close at 8. They are usually all packed up by 8 so don’t even try to sneak in there at 8:05 for a bite to eat. South campus has both Ovid’s and K-Lair which are both open late, so north campus has to have something, right? Wrong.
               The only places to grab a late night bite on north campus are the restaurants located about a block west of Champion’s Court. Even some of these restaurants close pretty early on weekdays. These restaurants are nice, but they don’t accept meal swipe or flex.

               So as you can see this is kind of a big issue for college students. The solutions is pretty simple though, either open Blazer or the Student Center later, or just build a new café/restaurant with later hours. I’m sure if students bring up this problem enough then Aramark or the school would have to do something; I mean just think of the profits they could be getting being the only restaurant open late.


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