Story by Opinion Editor Zoebelle Bean
There’s a new policy at the Corner Café, and it’s driving everyone crazy. Gone are the days of a full menu of meal swipes. Now, each day is a different food, and if it’s not a Meal Swipe, you must pay with Flex Cash. You can only get Quesadillas and Chicken Tenders with a Meal Swipe on Mondays and
Wednesdays, Hamburgers and Grilled Sandwiches on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Breakfast Bowls on Friday. One choice per day.
Junior Alex Bloss says, “One employee said it’s to combat a lot of end-of-year flex dollars, trying to make students use them at a better pace. I don’t know how I feel about it yet. There are good and bad aspects to it.”
If you’re desperate enough, you can use your flex cash to get what you really desire, but then you’re spending flex on food where it could have been spent on snacks to fill up your dorm for the week.
If meal swipes don’t function for every meal anymore, what good are they?
An anonymous Junior said he went ahead and paid with his flex cash because he wanted a burger really bad. According to him, “I didn’t even know they changed the policy, I just wanted to eat
what I wanted to eat.”
Mark Musgrave III , a Sophomore, went to Checkers because there wasn’t a meal swipe option for the sandwich he wanted. He claims, “I’ll end up running out of flex cash before I run out of meal swipes,
and then I won’t have a choice.”
Although there’s an upside to this policy, such as the Corner workers being able to stock up on food without running completely out, it doesn’t allow students the option to choose. Many students agree that it’s better to have options than force students to pay for something they simply aren’t in the
mood for. Not only that, but most students seemed unaware that a change had happened.
When talking about this change with Sophomore Carson LePage, he remarked how, “I didn’t even know that had happened. I just got a quesadilla tonight even though it’s burger night. I didn’t know
it was flex.”
For now, let’s hope that this change is only temporary. Perhaps the Corner will change when the lines gradually get shorter and enjoy what the Corner stands for: good food and good company at the end of a long day.
Image Courtesy of Zoebelle Bean
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