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Food services is a source of bitter controversy on campus. With so many vegetarian, vegan, health-conscious, and epicurean students, Sodexo (the campus food provider) could do a better job keeping everyone happy. Many students find the food to be repetitive and unhealthy with inferior ingredients. The cafeteria hours are limited, and the weekend ushers in a food drought of sorts. NCF has a food-conscious population that finds itself saddled with a food service provider who, despite attempts to improve, continually underperforms student expectations. In fact, there have been talks of starting a student-led food co-op program to replace Sodexo's services.

There is one main dining hall on the East Side of campus (Hamilton Center). On the West Side, the popular student-run Four Winds Café provides an alternative. Students and professors congregate there for discussion, tutorials, and relaxation. The Four Winds provides a necessary alternative to the Sodexo doldrums. Unfortunately, the meal plan cannot be used there without paying a transfer fee. Surprisingly, a large amount of students makes the transfer. Sodexo could be better, but at least they’re keeping people nourished. The cooks are open to student input, so it’s all a matter of letting them know what you want. However, just having only one food locale accepting meal plan dollars is aggravating to say the least.

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Campus Dining at New College of Florida

rathskellar91

Sociology '14

1.5

D+

D+ is being generous

Food here is terrible, run by Sodexho. Cafeteria open at bizarre hours, with dinner at 4:30 to 5:45 on weekdays and even worse on weekends. Since students are required to live on campus we should have better dining options.

Four Winds is a student run cafe and the food is much better. Unfortunately the service is slow (it's more popular than the cafeteria) and sometimes not enough seating. Hours are minimal. Would like to see Four Winds expand and take over the cafeteria, run professionally and have all profits go back to the campus.

Apr 27, 2012

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rosalinddk

Sociology '14

1.9

C-

TERRIBLE

There's really only one place to get food on campus with your meal plan, Ham Center. The other option is the student run cafe, which is delicious but isn't open very much and costs almost double the meal plan points. Ham food is generally too oily and too salty and there's little variety. Oftentimes they run out of an entree before dinner is even over (most times the only vegetarian/vegan option for the night). Finally, their hours are bad on weekdays and almost impossible on weekends.

Jan 24, 2012

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patticakes1992

Anthropology and Archaeology '15

1.2

D

Horrible.

The dining hall, Hamilton Center, is the worst. It is awful. I once got tofu that was hard. It is bad. I stick almost exclusively to the salad bar and the Boar's head or Four Winds cafe. Four winds is very slow though.

Jan 05, 2012

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