The Commons

By: Garrett Lanier

The Commons’ food has students feeling hopeless due

to:

Lack of food options Food schedule Questionable sanitation High prices

Lack of food options: The food

serving area is split into many different stations such as the grill, the classics, international, and pizza/pasta.

With these stations, UAB hopes to serve students a variety of foods so that they never tire of the same choices—this never seems to be the case.

Food schedule During peak hours

of the day such as 11:00am-2:00pm and 4:00pm-6pm, all food stations are in full swing but at any other time, there are hardly more than two options to choose from.

For those students that cannot eat during peak hours due to classes or sports, this is very frustrating.

Questionable sanitation

The first health inspection of the Commons on the Green gave it a score of 80 for the dishwasher not being at a certain temperature and for having live insects in the facility.

High Prices A student is required to

purchase a meal plan if they live on campus but those that do not have to pay a higher fee when eating in The Commons—nine dollars a meal to be exact.

Regardless of living on campus, students that take twelve plus hours are required to pay the $225.00 dining dollars fee, which is included in tuition. At the rate of $9.00 a plate, that is only twenty-five meals for the whole semester.

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The Commons is now one of the only food options on campus that claims to have any sort of variety. Students deal with the daily struggles of scheduling a time to eat when a decent selection of food will be available, if the food and the setting are sanitary, if they can afford to eat, and what will be offered.

Students are very concerned about the problems with meals and hope that things improve in the future

Works Cited Meadows, Luke . Commons food safety score edges

up N.p.. Web. 14 Nov 2013. Meadows, Luke. "Inspection prompts corrective steps

for Commons." Kaleidoscope. Kaleidoscope. Web. 14 Nov 2013.

Sala, Maryanne. "UAB Lacks variety in food options." Kaleidoscope. Kaleidoscope. Web. 14 Nov 2013.

Yokely, Richard. "UAB - Dining - Commons on the Green." UAB. N.p.. Web. 14 Nov 2013.

“Dining” . UAB.com. UAB, Web. 14 Nov 2013.