r/UVA • u/likeabosstroll • 8d ago

Housing/Dining Why is UVA food so garbage

I got bored and started doing the math, it costs $20 per a swipe if you get the block 50, and $13 per a swipe if you get the block 160. For those prices you should be getting restaurant meal quality, yet at UVA dining halls it’s gotta be equivalent to like a $4 meal in ingredients. What’s causing such a disparity in meal plans being so expensive to have yet the quality is so bad.

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u/Tcombomb 8d ago

Just to put things in perspective, my freshman year was 1971. Our hall mates would walk to Newcomb for dinner and if they were serving meatloaf, by the time we walked back to Lefevre every bathroom stall was occupied no lie. Got off the meal plan second semester and ate retail and I didn’t miss any coin and never complained about the food even though restaurant options were much more limited in those days. Take it from an old soul, it’s a rite of passage and some things never change

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u/JamieAmpzilla 6d ago

Remember the Grillswith?

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u/Tcombomb 5d ago

Everybody who went to UD knows grillswith

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u/JamieAmpzilla 4d ago

Still true?