don't betray student solidarity -- DON'T GET A MEAL PLAN

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Virginia
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<p>Sure, O'Hill throws cool dinners and is nice to eat at 20-40% of the time for the price and time involved, but the fact that Aramark Dining is desperate to expand its consumer base by offering "prizes" for lucky meal plan signers and doing some aggressive marketing I think shows that the student disgust with the steepness of the price is sufficiently worrying them.</p>

<p>I can't believe they market dining plans as "affordable"?</p>

<p>And from a public service / environmental viewpoint, like power plants delivering power to consumers, university dining services should be happy with less mouths to feed, not more. </p>

<p>If enough students eventually refuse to buy into their nonsense, dining services will eventually be forced to lower prices to something reasonable. (And have something else rather than their ripoff of a plus-dollar scheme.)</p>

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<p>Personally, plus dollars are one of the better things from UVa dining - not paying sales tax is generally a good thing. Moreover, unlike the dining hall, the shops (crossroads/castle/etc) actually have decent food. Although of course to have plus dollars you need to subscribe to the dining hall ripoff…errr…plan.</p>

<p>Not sure why you need to worry about any sort of solidarity. At least to me doing a simple calculation of how much each meal costs and having sampled the quality does all the persuasion.</p>

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<p>You don’t need to convince me to shun the meal plan. </p>

<p>I was going to buy a small plan but when I figured out there was no advantage (meaningful discount) to having one I decided against it.</p>

<p>Can I just use Cav Advantage dollars for everything next year?</p>

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<p>yeah but you don’t get the tax break</p>

<p>of course brown college requires us to have a meal plan (we have these banquets) and newcomb is right there… i get the cheapest one possible and swipe in my friends lol. plus i get to cut in line, so that’s convenient. and i make sure to get $10 worth of food any time i go in there, haha.</p>

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<p>they’ve always offered prizes for early meal plan signup, it’s just some incentive for them to get contracts early. It seems pretty reasonable and par to what they’ve done in the past.</p>

<p>Sure a decreased number of people on meal plans means less power consumption and less waste, but it also means higher prices and fewer jobs. </p>

<p>I also think the dining halls are expensive, but you’re paying for a buffet (how much are buffets in general?) and for the convenience, so in my opinion they aren’t exactly ripping you off.</p>

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<p>Where actually is the best food on campus, D will be freshman in fall. We ate in newcomb and the food is really bad!!</p>

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<p>runk is supposedly better than newcomb. ohill is usually better than newcomb. newcomb isn’t really bad, it’s just the same stuff week after week. well, sometimes it’s bad. but usually there’s a staple of tasteless things which are at least edible (sandwiches, waffles, etc).</p>

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<p>Galosien, is seems odd to have this conversation on College Confidential. The majority of the users here will be required to buy a meal plan of some sort next year. There are probably less than a dozen current students regularly posting here.</p>

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<p>Well yes, but I notice there are a large collection of lurkers. fb group might be in order at some point.</p>

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<p>The JPJ dining hall is the best.</p>

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<p>honestly gals, I don’t think you’ll sway any upperclassmen. For the most part, they know what their getting. And don’t you live in the IRC? So, won’t you have to buy a meal plan?</p>

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<p>Gals, I think you are being generous. I would say 10-20% max.</p>

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<p>barboza, are you an athlete?</p>

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<p>No offense to the dining entity but it’s inconvenient when they close things down half an hour before the scheduled closing time.</p>

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<p>I don’t think so. I’m not on an RC meal plan. In fact, they don’t mention the IRC in the “required to have a meal plan” thing when I signed up – I only signed up cuz I was a first-year.</p>

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<p>I totally agree with galoisien here. I calculated how much a Upperclass 100 meal plan cost per meal and it was $9.35 ((1,085-195))/100). You could eat out and get much better food for a lot less. I’m going to cook my own food - cheaper, faster, better.</p>