As the old saying goes, “If nothing is wrong, leave it alone.”

With the new year in full swing, there are new changes to Sodexo, the food program on campus.   There are a number of significant changes in the Cellar, one of best spots in the Cartwright Center to grab a quick bite to eat.

Some of the major changes include  the Cellar not serving breakfast and only allowing block meal plan students to eat between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. With these changes came an entire new menu, which now makes students to order up at the register. This causes huge lines during the peak hours, such as dinnertime. As you can imagine, students are not excited about the new changes.

Paul Gaska, a resident assistant leaving on campus with three years of meal program experience under his belt, does not enjoy the new changes to the Cellar.

“I feel like everything is getting progressively worse,” Gaska remarked. He spoke about how he waited almost 45 minutes for dinner at the Cellar, just to get his cheeseburger.

“The food has always been great there, compared to the Whitney Center, but it should not be taking that long to get my food.”

Gaska enjoys grabbing breakfast in the Galley upstairs instead, which now serves breakfast to meal plan students in the morning.

Sophomore Sara Geier finds it difficult to grab lunch in Whitney when she only has 40 minutes in between classes. “The lines are so backed up all the time, by the time I actually get my food, it’s already ten minutes into my class.”

Geier thinks that the Whitney Center did not expect to handle so much traffic, which creates a lot of congestion during the lunch hours. She says one of the ways to fix this is just by decreasing the amount of time that people should be waiting to eat their food.

We are college students. We really do not ask for that much. Just a good meal. Now that Sodexo has seen their biggest problems with the new year, hopefully they are able to adapt and figure out what is best for the student body. With that in mind, if they cannot keep up to par with their meals, it may in the best interest to figure out a better program that serves all campus needs.