Returning Piedmont students’ frustration continues over the college’s new cafeteria service hours. As of fall 2007, Chartwells is Piedmont’s new food service, replacing Aramark. With the new service, comes new complaints. Students find the hours of the cafeteria diminished compared to the previous year and are demanding to know why. Being a student of Piedmont for three years, I have felt the pros and cons of the new cafeteria and am also wondering why things are different.
It’s not only the students who are noticing the change.
“It’s healthier food, worst service,” says Dr. Stephanie Almagno to her English class. Dr. Almagno says she feels that students are going to need to rattle some cages and get parents involved if changes are to occur. “We need to address the problems and tackle them with solutions.”
“Students think the problem is simple,” says senior Jennifer Osborne, “in that Piedmont is trying to fit the role of a university school with having hours and specific times on its cafeteria when students can not eat.”
Many students feel that it is Chartwells is to blame in all the controversy. Raised anger was put towards the cafeteria on August 30 when Jamie Ballew, director of food services at Piedmont, agreed to meet with students. One thing was clear however at the end of the meeting, nothing was going to be changed on the hours of the cafeteria. It’s the administration that makes the rules. Chartwells supplies Washington College, a small liberal arts school in Maryland, and its hours differ from Piedmont’s. It is open 7 a.m. to 8:30 p.m; six days a week.
With all this being said, the only thing to do is to come to some form of solution now. It’s going to be a long year if they wait any longer to solve the problem.
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