Meal Card Equivalency
2013-2014
- Breakfast: $4.45
- Lunch: $7.85
- Dinner: $7.85
2014-2015
- Breakfast: $4.65
- Lunch: $8.20
- Dinner: $8.20
Food prices in the dining halls have gone up since last year, along with an increase in the meal plan amount.
Jon Lewis, director of Campus Dining Services, said the change in food prices had to do with the rise of company prices.
“[Dining] looks at our pricing every summer before fall semester and food prices in general increase, so the food prices of what we’re selling have to go up as well,” he said.
Lewis said Jamba Juice was also one of the chains that changed its prices over the summer, so the on-campus location also had to adjust prices.
Because of the increase in food prices, Lewis said it was only natural that the amount allotted for each meal went up as well.
“We looked at the amount the food prices went up and we adjusted the price of room and board based on a percentage,” he said. “We tried to make it as fair as possible.”
According to Lewis, other changes in dining halls, such as the stir fry in Woodworth Commons being pre-made instead of designed by the students, is because of a lack of student employees, Lewis said.
“As soon as we get enough employees, we’ll go back to custom stir fry,” Lewis said. “The first week, or two or three, this year we’ve had a difficult time hiring student employees. We’re behind last year, so we had to make some modifications in some dining halls.”
Sophomore dance major Nicole Popovich said she has definitely noticed the change in prices in the dining halls.
“It’s kind of to be expected that the prices will go up,” Popovich said. “But at the same time, it’s kind of redundant that prices go up and they give you more on your meal plan, like what’s the point of that?”
But even so, Popovich said she thinks she still gets the same value as last year.
“I feel like I still get a similar amount of food as I did last year,” she said.
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