Food at William and Mary.

[Anonymous]

Both W&M and UVA use Aramark, and their food is so much worse than Virginia tech. This seems like a solvable problem.

[Anonymous]

Nope. I don't plan on eating much or any of it. I have never heard anything negative about the food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both W&M and UVA use Aramark, and their food is so much worse than Virginia tech. This seems like a solvable problem.

It really does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Both W&M and UVA use Aramark, and their food is so much worse than Virginia tech. This seems like a solvable problem.

It really does.

It's definitely a lot easier to self run a dining program when you have 40 thousand+ students

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know about William and Mary but at UVA, the food contract is the same company that feeds Virginia's prisoners.

I’ve never been to a college that didn’t use Sodexho or Aramark, so there is that

[Anonymous]

I've eaten at WM dining this year. It was completely fine. My kids didn't have much concern about it. Many are just stating what they have heard from past years when dining was having significant issues. It's not going to be private school quality, but it's also not private school prices.

[Anonymous]

My freshman hasn’t complained once about the food. She’s in a gorgeous new dorm and is excited for the new dining hall to open soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know about William and Mary but at UVA, the food contract is the same company that feeds Virginia's prisoners.

I’ve never been to a college that didn’t use Sodexho or Aramark, so there is that

How many colleges have you ever been to? 1?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know about William and Mary but at UVA, the food contract is the same company that feeds Virginia's prisoners.

I’ve never been to a college that didn’t use Sodexho or Aramark, so there is that

I think VT is its own provider. JMU, UVA, and W&M I believe use Aramark. By reputation, JMU has good food while UVA and W&M do not, which is a bit odd if they have the same provider.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've eaten at WM dining this year. It was completely fine. My kids didn't have much concern about it. Many are just stating what they have heard from past years when dining was having significant issues. It's not going to be private school quality, but it's also not private school prices.

This. Impossible to distinguish whether a school has more of the whiny students or actually has poor quality food. Not really very credible to believe that the same vendor has substantially different food on offer among JMU, UVA, and W&M.

[Anonymous]

I literally can’t remember a single meal I had in college at the dining hall. I survived so must have been passable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My freshman hasn’t complained once about the food. She’s in a gorgeous new dorm and is excited for the new dining hall to open soon.

What's the ETA on the new dining hall opening? DH and I are alums and we visited in March and were stunned by the beauty of the new area of campus back by the new dining hall area. That whole area is going to be such a benefit to students going forward. Sadly, our DD ED'd to a different school on I-64 but we still have hope for DC2 in a few years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My freshman hasn’t complained once about the food. She’s in a gorgeous new dorm and is excited for the new dining hall to open soon.

What's the ETA on the new dining hall opening? DH and I are alums and we visited in March and were stunned by the beauty of the new area of campus back by the new dining hall area. That whole area is going to be such a benefit to students going forward. Sadly, our DD ED'd to a different school on I-64 but we still have hope for DC2 in a few years.

Supposed to be open for the spring semester. I peeked in a couple of weeks ago, and it looks like a really nice space. Big windows, very open. That whole area is so nicely done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I literally can’t remember a single meal I had in college at the dining hall. I survived so must have been passable.

Oh I remember how bad it was, I got to the point that I ate cereal for dinner. But my college's food is reportedly great now!