Belmont University
- Campus Dining

Seriously horrible for vegetarians.

As a vegetarian, I realize I am a minority, but I feel like I genuinely cannot eat healthily in the cafeteria. The vegetarian option is often protein-less, and any hope of getting protein is lost. The salad bar is stocked with ICEBERG lettuce which has the nutritional value of water. The other lettuce option is usually that weird purple lettuce that no one actually likes. Romaine lettuce is just as inexpensive as iceberg, or maybe slightly less, but is so much healthier. Breakfast at the caf is a complete waste of time, unless you happen to like rubbery scrambled eggs and stale biscuits. The pizza at Belmont is pretty consistently good, but obviously someone can't eat pizza everyday. It doesn't help that the cafeteria is much too small to accommodate Belmont's seriously increasing population.

One of the only good things about the caf is the workers, who are incredibly nice and helpful.

Absolutely Awful

The dining hall at Belmont is just downright terrible. The food is always questionable. The food is labeled, but I still end up questioning it. Belmont supposedly has the Grade D food plan from Sodexo and I wouldn't be surprised if that were true. (Prisons have the Grade C food plan.) As a prospective student though, you wouldn't think this because they buff up the caf and they bring in better-tasting food just to persuade you to think that they serve good food. You're better off eating out of a trashcan.

...Terrible.

There is definitely something to say about Belmont's food options. For starters, they put on a show for potential students. You think that Belmont serves their students pretty decent food in the cafe but then you learn that they put grade the food plan specifically for the days high schoolers visit. The food company that the school actually goes through is the same company that feeds Tennessee state prisons and the food is so nutritionally starved that you're hungry an hour later. Also, the hours of the cafe are completely ridiculous because they close the cafe at random times throughout the day and close for the day at 7 pm and at 6:15 on weekends. Needless to say, it's very common to miss your dinner.