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1995-6: THE YEAR SO FAR
An Italian
job for Breakers? A RECENT meeting between the Union and UEA Catering bosses served up proposals for Breakers to go Italian - but only for daytimes and two evenings a week. Little is known about plans for the menu yet, except that pizza is set to be a featured item. The new venture has been described as a 'restaurant', but no mention is made of whether this means there \\'ill be table service. Although the transformation of Breakers into an Italian eatery will only happen twice a week, it looks unlikely that Spudbuns and burgers are on course to return for the other five evenings. The Diner is set to become a four food-hall outlet - although exactly which foods has not yet been revealed - and will be staying open an extra hour. In a surprise move, Catering chiefs told the Union that they had 'no objections' to the Union setting up a food service after 8 pm, as the University had no plans to extend its catering facilities past early evening. But the decision not to offer students any evening services contrasts with the findings ·of an exclusive Concrete survey, detailed on page 6, which reveals that students want more late-night catering services.
'Last orders' for £1 a P-int? PLANS ARE being 'drafted' for a possible 10p a pint increase in Union bars from next year, to pay for lower Supermarket prices and higher staff wages.
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GRAB YER GRANT! REGISTRY Finance Office staff have good news for some extremely wealthy, or possibly very absentminded, students. Some of them have forgotten to pick up their grant cheques.
The move would bring an end to the Union's hugely popular £1 a pint policy, which has helped bar revenues 'top' the £1 million barrier thi"s year. Outgoing Finance Officer John Holmes said . - - - - - that in his personal opinion beer prices could be 'pumped up'. "I don't think a lOp rise will affect sales, .__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _., given that it's been £1 for two years, and that His views are in line with those of the there has been no increase in that time. If demand stays the same, profits will go up", he Union's Management Committee, which is set to raise bar prices at The Waterfront, as well as said. "We 're also working towards paying our bar to consider those charged in other Union bars. But any hike could leave student drinkers staff significantly more next year. ' frothing ill the mouth' if they feel they are hav"We should be paying £4.15 per hour for full-time staff, and we should bring part-time ing to pay more so that a comparatively small staff up to the same level within two or three number of student bar staff can be paid wages substantially above typical City rates. years." Any increase at The Waterfront 'bri ngs to a John strongly favours reducing prices in the campus supermarket, which he says would be head' questions about whether the venue is run balanced by the 'lager than life' profits gener- for the benefit of student clubbers, or is just another profit-making City night-spot. ated by Union bars.
JOHN HOLMES: Proposing a 'bitter' an Increase
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