You can still get a meal on campus at George Mason University, but it may not be a grade A meal.
It likely won't be the same as you would get Monday through Friday. You would have plenty of options if you decided to eat on campus.
"Ciao on the weekend's is unbearable," said Erik Price a senior at George Mason. "It's not even worth the meal plan."
Food services reduces the options in Ciao due to a decrease in the number of people that eat there on the weekend. Kind of a supply and demand argument.
Besides Ciao, many of the places open Monday-Friday are closed on Saturday and Sunday. the crowded Mason food areas becomes this on Weekends. While most residents complain abvout the closings, this does happen at other schools.
"Well the good section of the dining hall closes," said Tom Hopkins a student who transfered to Mary Washington from Mason. "For closings Mary Washington is better, the food is worse though."
Mason students do have many choices when it comes to food. On campus residents would just like some of the better places to stay open, as opposed to some of the least popular. Even with the closings, many residents still eat on campus on the weekend.
"It may not be as good, but i still eat here on the weekends," said Steve Taylor of George Mason.
Some of the possible solutions to the weekend food:
- Have everything open on the weekend. Not cost effective
- Don't close down the International portion of Ciao Hall on the weekend.
- Leave something like La Patisserie open instead of Sub Connection.
Some students don't have much of a choice. They may not have the means to eat consistantly off campus. With many residential areas not having a kitchen, you are not able to cook unless you provide your own microwave. This forces some to eat at GMU on the weekend.
As long as the perception maintains that a signifcantly less amount of students eat on campus on weekends, dining areas will have less choices.
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