The workers of Bon Appétit are constantly striving to satisfy student’s wants. But maybe they need to try a little less hard by serving more traditional dishes that everyone is comfortable and familiar with. While there is a pasta bar that serves the same pasta every night, they could serve pasta as the main dish some nights. For example, one night they could have fresh spaghetti with meatballs and cheese tortellini or pesto pasta with sun dried tomatoes for vegetarians. If you have a suggestion of your own, don’t hesitate to fill out one of the comment cards located in the dining halls. Bon Appétit tries to implement feasible ideas, especially when they receive enough comments about it. The reason we have bean and cheese burritos is because it was suggested by one student.

As the student body has expressed time and time again, opening an on campus fast food or franchise restaurant like many other universities have would be ideal. Even having food trucks come to campus would be great. Many have argued that we should both support and utilize alumni owned restaurants such as Cabo Bob’s and Hey Cupcake! by having one on campus in replacement of The Huddle.

The issue with this is the contract Bon Appétit has with the university, which restricts anyone (student or business), from selling food, even candy, within a certain perimeter of the dining halls. This does leave some room for food trucks to come to campus as long as they remain a certain number of yards away from Ragsdale & Hunt.

There have been kolache food trucks which have parked next to the main building on weekends. However, having third parties come to campus and compete with Bon Appétit would create competition and cause Bon Appétit to lose business. This is the biggest reason the university hasn’t jumped on the idea of having food trucks or restaurants come to campus, as business offers have been rumored.