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Atwood lacks options for on-campus students
University Chronicle
EDITORIAL BOARD
The issue: Gretel’s Bake Shop will close before finals are over, and a new smoothie and juice bar will take its place.
What we think: Aramark and the university should remember the needs of on-campus students when adding trendy new eating establishments.
Atwood may be the gathering place of the students, but for the 3,000 or so people who live in the SCSU residence halls, Atwood becomes more than just a place to gather. It becomes a place to get nourishment.
Atwood is one of two places on campus where the residence hall students (and anyone else with an SCSU meal plan) can eat on a declining meal basis. It works like this: a student is given so many meals a week (or a semester) and can use those meals during certain hours of the day in Atwood. If the meal the student wants to purchase in Atwood costs more than the given amount of the meal plan, which varies from meal to meal, he or she can use Husky Bucks to make up the difference.
Recently, Atwood, Aramark (the company that runs it) and SCSU have added more trendy food shops in Atwood to cater to the students who commute. The addition of Java City last year, and the smoothie and juice bar in January are not geared toward the people for whom Atwood is an affordable alternative.
Java City closes at 4 p.m., about the time most classes are over for the day. Restaurants like the Husky Den close at 3 p.m. The operators of these restaurants neglect the fact that the residents on campus are here all day and night. They leave the residents only a few options of where to eat. Burger King and Taco Bell not only get tiresome for residents, but the fast food restaurants are unhealthy as well.
An addition of a smoothie and juice bar in Gretel’s place sounds like the same ploy by Atwood: attract commuters in, but close down when the people who live here need to have options.
The new restaurant’s attractiveness and excitement will, like all other new things, wear away with time. The commuters and residents alike will probably flock to it for the first few weeks, but when all is said and done, will it play to the people who need eating options on campus the most? Will the new restaurant remember the 3,000 SCSU residents?
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