CAFETERIAUNDER NEW MANAGEMENT

By: Amanda Mills

r have been attending UCFV for the past three years. fn such time I have only eaten in the cafeteria (maybe) ten times. The prices are too high and the food quality is not there. But since the cafeteria is under new management I decided to go back. Wrong idea. The food selection hasn't improved by much. The quality is the same and the prices arc sky rocketing.

1 had a conversation with one of the work• ers there and they said, "Students are coming to me and telling me we're losing business." The cafeteria is loosing business nnd therefore raising their prices. How many of us wondered why the bacon cheeseburger costs a dollar more? But when you add Bacon 10 another burger you pay $0.60 more? And you get two skinny little pathet• ic pieces of meat. If I'm paying $0.60 more for bacon l wanl at least some flavor of Bacon on my burger. The quality of the food has nol improved or decreased, so what's with the price jack up?

Well, wh.it about all the other post-secondary schools in BC? U BC has Asian food there on a regulnr basis. lntemational students pay five to ten times in tuition than Canadian students .ind they are centrally located in the cafeteria. Constantly I walk in there and see tables of Jnternational students. Latin Americans, Taiwanese, Vietnamese. Chinese, Japanese, and European are some who make tlp our International students. Why nut have more [nternational foods in the cafeteria. lt's bad dents conform to our society just to teach them. Ycs they did apply to allend to go to UCFY but as a whole we should accommodate them for their choice and money.

fNTERACT! ! !

Why is there no interact in the c.ifeteria? There were rumors that the new management was going to put interact in the cafeteria but never did. Perhaps they own the bank machine too and are making too much money. Even the smaller cafes don't have Internet. The cafeteria might do better if they offered it there. Many students refuse to use rhe high service chnrging bank machine and wait until they go elsewhere to spend their money. How many of us would love to see an Interact machine (or two) in the cafeteria? Or the smaller cafes around the school? Everyone who uses Interact should say yes to this.

Why won't the cafeteria mnnagement see this? Because they might think that the construction to put in a phone line for Jri,eract might out weigh the profit of having it there. Or they just don't want to make money. Think abC)utit. If the bank machine is pri· vately owned, or own by thc sameAmerican Company that runs our cafeteria, they would be making money. And if interact was available elsewhere in the school the banks would profit and less money would go to the Company or private owner.

When it comes down lo it, it is all about money and how to get the most of iL. This is just my opinion, but maybe it should be enough we arc making the International slll- yours.

Sur1Jey1/ME!

Pleaseanswer these questions and return it lo the Cascade or your SUS on your campus. This survey is more of a petition that the results will be handed lo the head of the CMfcte• ria managcmtint in hopes to improve your cafeterias on every campus.

Student Number

Questions (circle one)

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN ATTENDING UCFV'? SINCE SEPT LAST YEAR TWO YEARS WHICH CAMPUS(ES) DO YOU ATTEND?

ARB CHK HOP MIS

DO YOU USE INTERACT ON A REGULAR BASIS?

YES NO

MORE

HOW MANY TIMES WOULD YOU SAY YOU USE INTERACT EACH DAY? 0-5 6-11 11-16 20+

WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE INTERACT IN THE SCHOOLS CAFES,AND CAFETERIAS?

YES NO

IF THERE WAS INTERACT WOULD YOU EAT THERE MORE OPTEN'?

YES NO

IFTHE FOOD WAS CHEAPER'!

YES NO ll•THEllE WAS MORE SELECTION? YES NO

ARE YOU AN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT?

YES NO

WHAT DO YOU THINK or TIIE SCHOOLS FOOD QUALITY? Rate the following (five being bad and one being excellent) PRICES? SELECTION?

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WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE DONE WITH THE CAFETERIA?

LIST ONE THING THAT THE CA PETEil iA DOESN 'l HAVE THAT SHOULD HAVE'!

WHAT ABOUT" EATING? WOULD YOU LIKE A PLACE OUT SIDt WIIERE YOU WON T GET WET (its BC we II get wet no nrnttcr w h II t ) ?

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

PS.ALL THOSE WHO PINISH TI-IIS SURVEY AND HAND IT TO TIIE CASCADE OR SlJSOFFICES WILL RE ENTERED IN A DRAW FOR A CASH REWARD. (and don t worry James the money is coming out of my pay check)