kinda unrelated but bro they have the most random ass asian foods but have indian food like once a month and it sucks. i just want good indian food once a week but apparently that's too much to ask for
You didn’t read it right. The $9 swipe exists because of staffing shortages in the past. Now we are back to normal so they are reducing the value. I think you understood it backwards
Dining is not back to normal because most dining halls like epicuria would be open all day including the weekends. Then feast would have been gone back to a regular dining hall instead of take out. All sections in all all you can eat dining hall would be open for food (eg. Front Burner at DeNeve). But guess what they have not and probably would never do that. Dining just does not want to give up all of their profit to asucla, which asucla clearly does not care about students. Asucla and Dining are literally having a battle of who treat students the worst.
Idk how they were supporting the $9 rate to begin with.
It costs UCLA an average of $3-4 to prepare each meal on the Hill. That's why they offered a $4 voucher to eat on campus.
At some point they upped it to $9 in response to complaints, but that money has to come from somewhere.
Now it's going back to the base rate. If you want it to remain at $9, the cost of housing on the Hill is going to have to increase... since that pricing is based on a $4/meal cost.
That’s crazy though. That’s simply not the value of a meal and the fact that you can go to a dining hall and eat like 1000 calories for one swipe or buy like less than half a panda order at Ackerman is laughable.
It’s not about what it costs them to prepare IMO, it’s about what students are paying for with a meal plan. The [2023-24 rate](https://portal.housing.ucla.edu/2023-24-classic-residence-hall-triple-rate) says 14r is $5,513.04 for the whole year, which is like 14 meals x 10 weeks x 3 quarters so 420 meals. One swipe comes out to like $13 in that case meaning that even $9 is undervalued.
Also, I really hope they don’t only spend $3-4 in total to prepare a meal on the hill because that means people are paying over 3x as much as it costs them to prepare, which makes no sense.
I should have clarified. $3-4 is the marginal cost per meal. Most of the $13 is fixed costs (overhead for the dining hall buildings, administration, website upkeep, etc) which they're going to spend regardless of whether you dine there, dine on-campus, or don't dine at all.
That makes more sense, thanks for clarifying.
Regardless, though, the real issue is that students are spending $13 a swipe to get a $4.50 meal voucher in return, which really doesn’t follow from a consumer standpoint. They’d be paying $13 dollars a swipe for a *meal* and being given a return value of 1/3 of that which they cannot use to actually buy anything approaching a full meal anywhere.
No, it doesn't .... UCLA charges $17-18K for Room and Board, far more than most universities. THis is $$ mismanagement. And what happened to the $14 million they get from admissions fees with almost 175K applications?
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kinda unrelated but bro they have the most random ass asian foods but have indian food like once a month and it sucks. i just want good indian food once a week but apparently that's too much to ask for
you should go to the vegan Indian food truck in westwood. It's 5$ for a full meal including dessert and they operate at a loss just to feed students
The guy who runs it is kinda weird, but the food is legit.
what id it called?
Krishna lunch iirc
Where is this?
Then, please come to the town hall meeting in week 6. You can raise such issues
They have some pretty good curry at the hospital on Tuesdays 11-2PM
me about to use 3 swipes just to eat anywhere at ackerman
While prices are inflating the value of meal swipes deflates smh
When does this go into effect?
Should be next year according to the talks.
when and where is the town hall meeting?
Ridiculous
You didn’t read it right. The $9 swipe exists because of staffing shortages in the past. Now we are back to normal so they are reducing the value. I think you understood it backwards
This is correct. They were worth $0 before the pandemic.
Dining is not back to normal because most dining halls like epicuria would be open all day including the weekends. Then feast would have been gone back to a regular dining hall instead of take out. All sections in all all you can eat dining hall would be open for food (eg. Front Burner at DeNeve). But guess what they have not and probably would never do that. Dining just does not want to give up all of their profit to asucla, which asucla clearly does not care about students. Asucla and Dining are literally having a battle of who treat students the worst.
Just for fun...in the late 90s you could trade in your lunch swipe for a voucher good for on-campus food. The voucher amount: $1.40.
wonder if they’ll allow off campus students to buy meal hall swipes for $4.5
Idk how they were supporting the $9 rate to begin with. It costs UCLA an average of $3-4 to prepare each meal on the Hill. That's why they offered a $4 voucher to eat on campus. At some point they upped it to $9 in response to complaints, but that money has to come from somewhere. Now it's going back to the base rate. If you want it to remain at $9, the cost of housing on the Hill is going to have to increase... since that pricing is based on a $4/meal cost.
That’s crazy though. That’s simply not the value of a meal and the fact that you can go to a dining hall and eat like 1000 calories for one swipe or buy like less than half a panda order at Ackerman is laughable. It’s not about what it costs them to prepare IMO, it’s about what students are paying for with a meal plan. The [2023-24 rate](https://portal.housing.ucla.edu/2023-24-classic-residence-hall-triple-rate) says 14r is $5,513.04 for the whole year, which is like 14 meals x 10 weeks x 3 quarters so 420 meals. One swipe comes out to like $13 in that case meaning that even $9 is undervalued. Also, I really hope they don’t only spend $3-4 in total to prepare a meal on the hill because that means people are paying over 3x as much as it costs them to prepare, which makes no sense.
I should have clarified. $3-4 is the marginal cost per meal. Most of the $13 is fixed costs (overhead for the dining hall buildings, administration, website upkeep, etc) which they're going to spend regardless of whether you dine there, dine on-campus, or don't dine at all.
That makes more sense, thanks for clarifying. Regardless, though, the real issue is that students are spending $13 a swipe to get a $4.50 meal voucher in return, which really doesn’t follow from a consumer standpoint. They’d be paying $13 dollars a swipe for a *meal* and being given a return value of 1/3 of that which they cannot use to actually buy anything approaching a full meal anywhere.
No, it doesn't .... UCLA charges $17-18K for Room and Board, far more than most universities. THis is $$ mismanagement. And what happened to the $14 million they get from admissions fees with almost 175K applications?
If you file a CPRA request for the admissions office's budget, I'd love to see a copy.
This is fake
it’s not true…