OOC #3 Recap

Colin Dilworth
April 22, 2013
JRN200 MW: 9:10-11:30
OOC #3 Recap

Combo-X-Change meals may be a popular aspect of meal plans for students that live on-campus at Michigan State University, but they can also be an expensive aspect.

Mark Williams, the Community Director at North Hubbard Hall, said as much.

"I think it's more of a cost factor,” Williams said. “ The cost that it takes to do, you know, those type of meals, as you get more and more students doing it, Sparty's eats more and more of the cost. And then what happens is, is that, well, if Sparty's has to eat more of the cost, well then prices need to go up, which means tuition and room and board needs to go up to offset that."

Michigan State freshman Mike Zuker understands the financial aspect, but would still be interested in the ability to purchase combo-x-change meals on weekends.

"It'd be nice to have combo-x-changes on the weekends, but it's plenty enough to have them on the weekdays. They're definitely a commodity that I do value.”

Williams said he could potentially see MSU offering combo-x-change meals on weekends as part of gold or platinum meal plans.

"Like, you have the, you know, silver, gold, platinum, so maybe they would consider it, uh, if you chose a platinum, would be weekend Sparty's, which I think would be uh, actually a good, good suggestion."

 

OOC #3 Preview

Colin Dilworth
April 22, 2013
JRN200: MW - 9:10-11:30
OOC#3 Preview

 "Combo-X-Change" meals are a popular aspect of meal plans for students at Michigan State University.

Unfortunately, they might just be too popular.

As stated on eatatstate.com, guests with on-campus dining plans can use combo-x-change once per day, Monday – Friday.

Mark Williams, the community director at North Hubbard Hall, will provide insight as to why Michigan State University currently doesn't offer combo-x-change meals on weekends. MSU freshman Mike Zuker will offer a student's perspective regarding the number of combo-x-change meals he can obtain. Fellow MSU freshman Kyle Mikolowski, an employee at the Hubbard Sparty's, will break down the differences for him and his co-workers between days when Sparty's does offer combo-x-changes, and when they don't.