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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is doing research on colleges, and sees a few schools where most of the students complain about the food. I am insistent that there is no college currently in session that has food that is completely inedible for the 3k+ students to go there. They would not still be in existence. It would be front page story. I get that there are schools with subpar hot meals or variety; but salads and cereals!?

Your kid is being picky. This is the perfect opportunity for them to break the habit and start training their pallet for life.[/quote]

My kid isn’t being picky. He took a gap year last year and traveled independently throughout South America, cooking for himself at hostels and eating all kinds of food. At the hostels, though he usually had access to some kind of stove, top and oven, which meant he had more options for cooking a simple meal.

I take him at his word that the meal plan dining food is not worth the cost. He’s dropped down to ten meals so that’s done.

It’s not a front page story (why would it be?) but the dining services at Temple university are getting many complaints this year from students and parents. It’s definitely not a secret and they are complaining to the company managing the dining hall. 
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Just be extremely glad you can drop to 10 meal plan and live in the dorms.  Most do not allow that, so you end up overpaying and not using and still "eat elsewhere and pay for it".

My kid is in a university apartment--4 beds/4 baths/a full kitchen with dishwasher (a normal aparemtne).  They are required to have at a minimum the same plan they had last year--when they lived in a dorm where 40 people shared a tiny kitchen (small stove/oven, microwave and tiny sink).  Last year they had about $1000 left in dining dollars with 2 weeks to go in each semester---so did most of their friends.  So they bought overpriced things at the on campus "market" and donated it or treated TAs/grad students to meals/starbucks/etc.  It will be worse this year when my kid has a full kitchen and can more easily cook healthy meals.

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