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Haines Food Court voices current seating limitations
Kelly Connor
Issue date: 11/2/07 Section: Campus
When looking at Haines Food Court's seating and storing capacity problems, it is apparent that the creation of a new student center could not be timelier, according to Marijo Nootz, senior director of the Shriver Center. However, for the time being, Nootz and Tina Rotundo; executive general manager of Tuffy's, Haines Food Court and Spring Street Market; said that the remodeling of Tuffy's, new late night hours and Thursday evening activities have brought the food services at Shriver much success.
Accounting for more than half of the Miami University student body, 9,200 students on Miami's campus have meal plans. Nootz said that with so many students on campus during the day, Haines Food Court is unable to seat the number of students present during the lunch hour.
"We've got it figured out that we can feed 390 people per hour," Nootz said.
According to Nootz, the limitation of seating in Haines Food Court is the reasoning behind the 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. period where only cash or credit cards are accepted.
Nootz also stated that when Shriver was first remodeled in 1989, it was assumed that Haines would serve 1,000 students per day and only accept cash or credit. Eventually as the meal plans were accepted, Haines obtained more success and therefore decided to allow more meal plan hours. Nootz said now the average number of students served per day is around 4,000.
"We are limited so much by the amount of space we have," Rotundo said.
Not only is there a limited amount of seating, but what people do not realize and cannot see is that there is also a lack of food storage space. According to Rotundo, Haines receives food deliveries daily and storing the abundance of food is a struggle with the current facilities.
"Don't even think about putting in a new student center if it is not big enough to satisfy the student body," said Nootz in reference to the new student center, where planning is currently in the works.
Both Nootz and Rotundo hope and suspect that the new student center will be accommodating to the large number of students as well as the daily food deliveries.
Accounting for more than half of the Miami University student body, 9,200 students on Miami's campus have meal plans. Nootz said that with so many students on campus during the day, Haines Food Court is unable to seat the number of students present during the lunch hour.
"We've got it figured out that we can feed 390 people per hour," Nootz said.
According to Nootz, the limitation of seating in Haines Food Court is the reasoning behind the 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. period where only cash or credit cards are accepted.
Nootz also stated that when Shriver was first remodeled in 1989, it was assumed that Haines would serve 1,000 students per day and only accept cash or credit. Eventually as the meal plans were accepted, Haines obtained more success and therefore decided to allow more meal plan hours. Nootz said now the average number of students served per day is around 4,000.
"We are limited so much by the amount of space we have," Rotundo said.
Not only is there a limited amount of seating, but what people do not realize and cannot see is that there is also a lack of food storage space. According to Rotundo, Haines receives food deliveries daily and storing the abundance of food is a struggle with the current facilities.
"Don't even think about putting in a new student center if it is not big enough to satisfy the student body," said Nootz in reference to the new student center, where planning is currently in the works.
Both Nootz and Rotundo hope and suspect that the new student center will be accommodating to the large number of students as well as the daily food deliveries.
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