This is an unresolved issue, and hopefully I'll be able to explain it well enough that everyone can understand it.
The Bleecker Street Cafe is a small cafe on the first floor of VCU's new business/engineering building. The food is reasonable, and students can use their meal plans to get food there. Because I'm around that building a lot during the week and have a small meal plan, I get food there somewhat often.
I've gotten food there often enough to notice this:
Students use meal swipes to get certain amounts of food around VCU. My plan had 100 swipes. In the Bleecker St. Cafe, one or two swipes can get a student a variety of sandwiches and salads, each with a side and a drink.
The problem is that most sandwiches cost one meal swipe. Paninis cost two swipes. But, the greatest difference in price in cash is only about $1.10. I'm certain that my swipes cost a lot more than a dollar and ten cents each. In fact, I'm sure VCU doesn't offer any meal plans where the swipes have such a low value.
What's worse though, is that there is one sandwich on the menu that costs 1 swipe, and one panini on the menu that costs 2 swipes, but in cash, they both cost exactly the same amount of money!
I emailed VCU's dining services about the issue, and received a response from someone that claimed they would personally look into the issue and get back to me. About two weeks later, I followed up to see if they had made any progress. It has been quite a while - and I haven't gotten a response yet.
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I don't have meal swipes, but that definitely doesn't seem fair. Good for you for actually taking the initiative to get the situation fixed, most people (probably myself included) would just complain about it. I hope they get back to you!
I've noticed that too! I have a small meal plan since I live off campus so I try to ration out my swipes and dining dollars so they don't get used up right away. I'm not sure if I'm right about this, but when someone goes into shafer and pays with debit or credit it's 7 or 8 dollars. That means each swipe is worth 7 or 8 dollars, so when they make you swipe twice for a sandwich at bleeker st. its like paying $14 for a sandwich!!
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