After hearing from students, the dining hall has moved up its opening time to 7:15 a.m. instead of 7:30.
At last month’s food committee meeting, students expressed their difficulty in eating a healthy breakfast and still making on time to 8 a.m. classes.
Junior biology major Cristina Kelley said she never had time to get a balanced meal before her biochemistry class prior to the extra 15 minutes of eating time being added this month.
“I still don’t know why they don’t go back to opening at 7, I mean, it’s only 15 minutes earlier. But at least they open at 7:15 now because there was no way I had time to eat breakfast with the old schedule.”
In addition to the dining hall, Common Grounds, the coffee shop in Ezell, has also reworked their hours of operation. Common Grounds now will be open 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday and 7:30 a.m. until 7 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday.
Though changing the Common Grounds schedule never came up at the food committee meeting, general manager of Sodexo Wolcott Fary did have a reason for the change.
“We found out that Tuesdays and Thursdays were more likely days when the graduate classes would need to have food and beverage options,” he said.
Also for the month of October, Blue Coast Burrito and Auntie Anne’s will be offering specials. Customers can participate in “build your own soup and fish taco Fridays” at Blue Coast and purchase almond pretzels at Auntie Anne’s.
The October specials listed in the email from Lipscomb dining sent out to the student body also include hand-squeezed lemonade at Chick-fil-A, barbecue chicken pizza at Papa John’s and smokehouse flatbread sandwiches at ZeBi’s.
Fary confirmed another upcoming change that was not included in the email.
“I had talked to the chef about putting the make-your-own pizza in place sometime this month,” Fary said, noting that it should open by the third week of October. “We might try to do that on a monthly basis.”
The next food committee meeting will be at 4 p.m. on Oct. 24 in the faculty dining room. Fary encourages students to come and share their opinions.
“There’s gonna be a lot of opinions, but we can’t operate effectively unless we have your input and try and do at least as much as we can do with that information so that we can collectively have the things we want on campus.”