What Meal Exchange?
Recently I heard a rumour that has been causing myself as well as other customers of Acadia Meal plans quite a bit of stress. All of a sudden it seems as though meal exchanges will no longer be a part of the 2007-2008 meal plan. This is an absolutely terrible idea. Sometimes students can’t make it up to Wheelock between classes, sometimes they do not want to eat there; sometimes it isn’t even open. After 7:30 hot food is no longer served, whereas fresh slices of pizza and sandwiches are available down at Mo Mo’s. Meal Exchanges can also be done until 11:00 at night, which is convenient for those students that have a night class.
The bottom line is that students are paying for the ability to do a meal exchange, and fully removing them is a terrible idea. I know some students who only do exchanges and rarely visit Wheelock. I hope that this is just a rumour, and does not actually happen.
I agree, totally getting rid of meal exchanges is wrong, not only because people like a change sometimes but it is much easier to go to the shop in the bac or huggins and get a muffin and something to drink on one mealplan.
Another point would be to only get 100 $. Considering the prices at MoMo’s, Perkins and the rest, we will have used up those 100 bucks in ten days. The last time I went there to buy that overpriced food at perkins I spent 10 dollar for a sandwich a cookie and something to drink. If we only get flex cash then there should be a student rebate on campus shops or a higher flexcash value (500 to 800 $). People don’t always want to walk up the hill to eat at mealhall or they don’t have enough time. Leave some room to breave for us students and add some meal exchanges (75 lasted me the whole semester but only one). If you want more people to come to mealhall, then cook higher quality food and don’t take away the flexibilty of meal exchanges. Or add limited plans for example the 19 meals a week or maybe a 21 meals a week that work both at mealhall as well as campus stores such as perkins, MoMo’s, … .