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12 oz. Jiff Peanut Butter
12 oz. 6 Pack Coca Cola
6 Pop-Tarts
6 oz. Pringles
Oodles of Noodles
15 oz. Chef Boy R' Dee
3 oz. Llsterine
24 Sudafed
Edge Gel
6 oz. Scope
32 oz. Cane Sugar
1 Pop-Secret Popping Corn
Cambell's Cream of Chicken
7.25 oz. Kraft Macaroni & Ch
8 oz. BBQ Sauce
d oz. uruncn-n-wiuncn
14 oz. Prego Spaghetti Sauo
16 Lipton Tea Bags
10 oz. Kellog's Rice Krispies
16 oz. Crisco
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When a student decides to live on campus
hat decision often entails what is for s
'dread," or for others the "satisfaction," of :
:>n campus dining.
For certain freshmen living on campus
hose living in Bates House, there is no choic
plan is a requirement Food services at USC'i
pus restaurants are the' product of the Mar
Service Corporation.
In this time of recession, most students are
their vitriol against what they feel are high pi
Air Force ROTC Sophomore Tony Ed<
'Food is just so expensive, I paid $900 01
food each semester last year. Between bool
and housing, it is just an annoying additional
Ede adds, "I basically eat just what I need
stay away from campus food, I will make
;rock pot with stew starter or eat "Oodles
dies," which runs about 20 cents a package
meal plans are a rip off."
For Senior Eric Cuthbertson, living at US
:ampus dining "practical."
hooa seiecuon is varieu cnougn, dui u
provide value," Cuthbertson said. "I go to ]
and fit a personal pan pizza and a Coke on
:ard ? that is hardly enough to fill up a 2^
old male."
Cuthbertson also expressed annoyance at
in which an order is processed in both Sub
Gamecock Park. "If there is any number of
all, it seems like you wait forever." He said
also like to see some flexibiliity in meal c;
gesting a 17-meal-per-week option.
Sophomore Jason Scarfe believes food o
"isn't very palatable." He also dislikes the f
takes $1.05 to get an ample sized portion fc
potatoes. Comparatively he states, "At Food
worth of food is enough for four meals. At I
Marketplace, I've spent $5 and come a
hungry."
Psychology sophomore Jodi Riddle said,
doesn't need to worry about quality. Ofte
will just buy a meal plan for their son or dai
expect them to live off that." She also thii
should carry over from week to week. Sh<
you go home for a weekend, you waste thr
meals right there."
Patti Rook, Marriott's marketing mam
"High quality is something Marriott strives f
through a big balancing act to keep all leve
Cotton Cardii
from 525 comes in one versa
colors that will brighten your f;
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pus pi
production consisten
just Hardee's; we, or
? rent things."
; at USC, Fred Wencel, foot
iome the riott> said, "Quality
subsisting tions j hear both goc
if food is not selling,
and for Wencel said that
e; a meal prices periodically, N
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riot Food implemented last Api
ing felt right now. I
united in don't realize that we
ices. payroll."
5 relates, Rook feels the pri
a campus competition. "We do
:s, tuition food by going over s
i expense. 0r below our compe
certainly don't want
. Often to stay in business." T
stew in a "I've heard coir
of Noo- ^ose prices are a din
. For me, Competitive analy
out. One orange at
>C makes Food Lion's retail pi
for 25 cents. Assumi
ley don't one finds Marriott co
Pizza Hut flt margin.
my meal Accounting junioi
- year on campUS dining.4r
sive, but Sub City a
the speed adds, "Quality can I
City and itcd Wake Forest Ur
people at staurants like Taco
he would entire pizzas, not lik
ards, sug- here."
In regard to Pizza
" ?a,wUSt that it is examined
Smashed ^ys and has maint2
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. Lion, $5 ... tihe
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way still possibilityof tnakinj
Wencel and Rook
..., the needs of student;
Mamott "We have now j
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lghter and with disposabIe pj
nks meals 0pened Fast Break <
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t. Hardee's, for example, does
i the other hand, do many diffe1
services director for the Maris
a matter of people's percep>d
and bad things, but sometimes
it will just sit there for a while."
while surrounding stores raise
larriott only raises prices in Auid
that a minimum wage increase
ril has had effects which are betook
adds on that note, "People
have over 500 employees on our
ting process is in line with the
an analysis of what we pay for
elected products trying to stay at
ititor's prices," Rook said. "We
to rip anyone off, but we must
o exemplify that process, Rook
mlninfo nk/Mit rvur fniif nri/*AC Kilt'
iptaiuu auuui wui iiuu pivvj, i/ui,
xt factor of market price."
sis does not bear that statement
Gibbes Court costs 45 cents; at
ice, an orange can be purchased
ng a wholesale cost of 22 cents,
mes away with over a 100% pro
Saylor Sims has mixed feelings
[ think prices are generally expennd
the Patio are worthwhile." He
be improved. For example, I visliversity
and they have regular reBell.
The Pizza Huts there serve
e the greasy pan pizzas they serve
Hut Express, Wen eel pointed out
by Pizza Hut inspectors every 60
lined a 95% passing rate. He also
Is designed to get students in and
t fact more or less eliminates the
I large pizzas.
both feel Marriott is here to serve
s.
gone to a more environmentally
with eco-mugs and doing away
roducts," Rook said. "We also
>n Saturday for students going out
g ? that is a direct result of stutrge
enough student demand, we
tion and determine if a change is
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