SA to test late-night food options during trial run next month
Local food vendors like Chipotle, Buffalo Wild Wings, Jason’s Deli and House of Pies could begin selling their food on campus during late-night hours as early as next spring. The Student Association will host a late-night food event Tuesday, Dec. 11 in the Rice Memorial Center. Vendors from Ben and Jerry’s and Jimmy John’s will sell ice cream and sandwiches, respectively. The SA will buy $250 worth of food and subsidize $150.
“We can get a good idea of how many people would be interested,” SA student life committee chair Jen Zhan said. “If the event is successful, we’ll think about continuing this next semester.”
Zhan, a Lovett College sophomore, said the SA would think about hosting a late-night food event every month or every week. The event would most likely be held in the Brochstein Pavillion next semester, Zhan said.
Fondren Library will also be a hub for late-night food by next semester, with a vending machine and a coffee machine on the fourth floor. Zhan said the food in the vending machine will depend on Fondren’s budget. The SA will meet with Fondren before the semester ends to discuss Fondren’s budget for food in the vending machines.
Zhan said the SA decided to give late-night food options a try after 60 percent of students said in an SA poll that they would be willing to pay for them.
Baker College sophomore Julia Lukomnik said she thinks having late-night food options is a good idea but is worried that the food in the vending machines at Fondren will be limited.
“The only thing I’d be worried about with the Fondren stuff is that it seems like it’d be pretty unhealthy,” Lukomnik said. “Generally, what you get from those machines are pastries and stuff. At night you’re prone to eat such crap and in such quantities that just having it there seems dangerous.”
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