Despite complaints from non-vegetarian residents, students with special dietary needs are satisfied with the dining hall’s efforts to accommodate their needs.
Freshman Chelsea Rinden, a vegetarian for 12 years, finds that the dining hall has just enough options for her.
“Every now and then there are things that I don’t want to eat, but that goes for anybody. I do eat a lot of the same food over and over again but I do that normally, even if I wasn’t eating at the dining hall."
She also added that the ability for students to special order food (quesadillas, grilled cheese and chicken breast) gives picky eaters even more options.
Freshman Star Jeeries agrees. Jeeries had just decided to become vegan a month and a half ago and despite being stuck with hummus and pita bread for some meals, she believes the dining hall is doing the best they can. For her meals, Jeeries usually rummages through the vegan fridge.
However, some students have had to alter their eating needs such as Priscilla Sigala. Priscilla had been a vegetarian for 3 years. However, in mid November of last year she began to eat meat again in order to have more options.
“There more options once you eat meant. I started eating meat because I wanted more options in the dining hall.”
However, despite the lack of options, many students with special dietary needs believe the dining hall has done well compared to other cafeterias.
“There have been so many situations where I go to an all-you-can-eat buffet style cafeteria and there is literally nothing I can eat. At least at the dining hall I have some back up foods,” Rinden said.
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