<p>I read a lot of bad reviews about the food at Stony Brook. I'm kind of scared now because I'll be living there for at least 2 years! I'm strictly a vegetarian (mostly vegan) and I'm afraid I'll have to cook all the time there! Any input?</p>
<p>Thank you for your help!</p>
<p>Hi again, Nick!</p>
<p>Refer to the the following link about some of the dining options on campus:</p>
<p>[Stony</a> Brook University Student’s Welcome Center - Living, Dining, Working](<a href=“http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/newstudents/nsdining.shtml]Stony”>http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/newstudents/nsdining.shtml)</p>
<p>You can also check out campusdining.org.</p>
<p>~meg</p>
<p>Sounds like they do have good food options including vegan food! I don’t know why these people are trash talking about food at Stony Brook. But thanks again, Meg! :)</p>
<p>Food is ok at SBU but it depends on where you live. I’m starting my third year and found that the best options are Jasmine, SAC, and Roth (mainly for Wendy’s). Kelly is opening a new dining court this year but the food will likely be the same as the Union.</p>
<p>Forget about Wendy’s. I’m a vegetarian. LOL</p>
<p>Any time, Nick! Stony Brook is a large campus, so the options really are vast. I’ve been to quite a few other campuses and haven’t yet been able to find a school that has a variety that’s as large as Stony Brook’s. Like DrewReaLee, I really like the SAC food court for its variety and central location.</p>
<p>SB has a registered dietician on campus (Tina Tiernan: 631-632-9979) who may be a good resource for locating and choosing the best vegan options on campus.</p>
<p>Thanks awesome, Meg! As usual, you’re the best! :)</p>
<p>That’s* awesome (sorry for the typo) and thanks too!</p>
<p>I’ve found the food to be mediocre at best and just awful at its worst. </p>
<p>I would literally sell one-fourth of my right pinky finger if it meant that I would be able to get off of this scam of a meal plan and cook my own food. The only place good on campus to eat is at roth cafe. They have starbucks, wendys and red mango. Besides that:</p>
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<li>You can expect to find miscellaneous pieces of who-knows-what in your to-go salads.</li>
<li>You can expect your panini at the union deli to have been sitting in the showcase for hours prior to them serving you it.</li>
<li>You can expect the sushi workers at the union commons to not know the menu items and create the wrong sushi rolls (and if you try to correct them, they won’t fix it. I’ve been handed the wrong food there once, and I just left it on the counter and walked out of the commons after i was given attitude about my order. That’s the last time i tried to get sushi there)</li>
<li>You can be dam sure that the SAC won’t have enough to workers at any given time when it may be busy. They’ll have two out of maybe six registers open and the lines to pay for food will literally be 15 minutes long, after waiting 20 minutes to order food.</li>
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<p>You should also be prepared to hear about all the horror stories on campus. Despite what the SBU admissions representative would like you to believe (and you can’t blame him/her since its probably a paid position), is that Campus dining is attrocious. We currently have a SBU Food Complaints/Improvements page on facebook which has over 1,400 students. This page started approximately two months ago with the following greivences:</p>
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<li>Quality does not match price. This is by far one of the greatest complaints. A typical “stay on budget meal” is about $8 here. For any of you who have the lowest costing meal plan, you will be able to afford approximately $12 a day in food. Now it doesn’t take a mathematician to figure out that this “budget meal” idea is designed to serve you 1 and half meals per day, so your essentially on your own for breakfast. I had actually lost 12 lbs the first three months of this semester just from starving myself to “stay on budget” </li>
<li>Lack of variety. SBUadmissions is right. We have a lot of dining facilities spread throughout campus. However, many of them do not differ significantly from one another. For example, we have two starbucks on opposite sides of campus, three places dedicated to sushi, and two burger/hot dog/chicken sandwhich places. This is great, but it certainly should not be considered as two or more separate options because that’s just misleading to students who are not currently attending Stony Brook (such as HS and transfer students). It is conveinient to have multiple eateries serving the same type of food, but to believe that there are more options out there is not being truthful.</li>
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<p>I could go on and on about this, but your best bet is to check out the page for SBU students that i mentioned previously (although its a closed group as of now, so you may need an invitation)</p>
<p>For some background info, I’m a sophomore currently whose desperately trying to transfer to any other school for many reasons beyond just the food here.</p>
<p>Oh and on a sidenote of something I read in the stony brook press (essentially a newspaper on campus), Stony brook is now going to be hiring students to keep people from buying food. Stony Brook’s new position, “Spot-supplanters”, is when people are paid to stand in line making lines even longer than before, in an attempt to discourage people to miss class so that their nutrition suffers. We already wait 20 dam minutes in the SAC for food and now they just want us to not eat by increasing that line. The press speculates that this is also a weed-out method, in which they know students will wait on line and miss class in an attempt to weed these students out. The administration treats us like a science project of guinea pigs.</p>
<p>Latjak, get a freaking life man. You sound like psychopath with all the mindless crap you made up. I don’t understand how Stony Brook can admit these kind of students with so much negativity. I attended Stony Brook University from 2007 until 2012 and I found out as I visited other Colleges throughout the Northeast that the food at Stony Brook is the typical college food. The only difference that I saw with some other schools is that they offer All-you-can-eat buffet while stony Brook has the item-based point system. Each has their advantages/disadvantages. </p>
<p>Stony Brook dining is not terrible, and it has improved since 2007. New Dining Halls in place (Roth) and West Side Dining (renovated Kelly) and a future Dining Complex opening two years from now in 2015-16 next to the Stony Brook Union</p>
<p>Oh let’s just call each other names to prove a point. That works.</p>
<p>In fairness, the food was better last year, but then again I lived previously in Tabler, so roth cafe was nearby which has Red Mango, Wendy’s, and sushi.</p>
<p>Clearly you haven’t returned to Stony Brook since you left, seeing as the majority of the student’s problems with campus dining happened this semester. Renovated Kelly is worse than old kelly, besides the lack of seating, the removal of old kelly took with it some of the meals that students looked forward too in previous years.</p>
<p>Oh, and apparently the story on spot-supplanter’s was a hoax by the Stony Brook Press. Leave it to a news organization to assume the role of the Onion. So at least they are not that bad.</p>