Serveries to offer Saturday dinner
Saturday evening adventures in search of off-campus food may soon become an event of the past. Starting tomorrow, the North College and Hanszen/Wiess College serveries will provide Saturday night dinners instead of Saturday morning breakfast.
Additionally, all serveries will use the same recipes and will follow a six-week menu cycle, during which each entree will only be served once.
Director of Residential Dining Angela Riggs said few students attended Saturday breakfast. Riggs said she made the change because she wants to give students the 19 meals per week the plan provides.
Riggs said kitchen staff will prepare food in smaller batches Saturday evenings until they determine how many students will eat Saturday dinners. The grill, deli and salad bars will be open, and staff will prepare a meat entree, a vegetarian entree a vegetable dish and a starch. Riggs said there may be one fewer entree option than is available the rest of the week.
“It’s more like comfort food that we’ll be giving you on Saturday,” she said.
Riggs said Saturday dinner will cost $8.39, the same as dinners on other days. Lunches currently cost $6.22, and breakfasts cost $5.14. However, the change will not affect meal plan prices because Dining Services will use money previously allocated for new equipment to make up the difference.
Wiess College senior Austin Bratton said he thinks he will not stay on campus for Saturday dinner.
“I always enjoyed that they didn’t serve meals on Saturday because it forced everybody to get out into town,” Bratton said. “I’m afraid that it might cause people to just always hang around campus a lot.”
Director of Administrative Services Eugen Radulescu said the Rice Village shuttle service will remain the same unless ridership decreases significantly. Any changes would not be made before the spring semester, Radulescu said.
“We really want you to have a choice to go for shopping, dining and entertainment in the Village, so dining is only one piece of the part,” Radulescu said.
Shuttles currently run to the Village from 5:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, with a shuttle leaving every 15 minutes.
Will Rice College sophomore Rahul Agrawal said although he likes leaving campus on Saturday nights, the on-campus meal allow students without transportation to find food more easily.
“Not everyone has a car, and it’s kind of inconvenient sometimes when you don’t know when or where you’re going to eat,” Agrawal said.
Agrawal also said he thinks an on-campus weekend dinner will allow students to attend on-campus events more easily.
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