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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So it's a scale issue? Then why is Georgetown's food so terrible? and William and Mary? I feel like the only truly GOOD food is at UMDCP. (and that is legit good - not even just "good for dining hall food" - actually good!). I find it irritating that paying all that money to a school doesn't get my kid decent food![/quote]

I think it’s a scale issue in two ways. One, it is really hard to do mass-produced food well. Just think about catered events, like weddings, which are usually at most a couple hundred people—how often is the food excellent? Rarely, in my experience, and I’ve gone to some nice weddings! Multiply that by 10 (for the smallest schools), then add in having to cover meal times that are hours long while accounting for allergies, vegetarians/vegans, etc. I’ve never had institutional food that was much better than fine.

Then there’s the fact that smaller schools can’t support multiple dining halls, so options are limited. If you don’t like what the main dining hall is serving, you can’t go somewhere else. We recently visited Michigan, where they have something like nine dining halls; even if the food is only fine at all of them, each can serve different things each day, so students have more options.[/quote]

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