Health
and junk food addicts can unite at University
Dining Plaza
By
Sandra Porter
Daily Forty-Niner
Cal State Long Beach has a wide variety of campus dining facilities located
in the University Dining Plaza. From apples to sushi rolls, the plaza offers
an array of foods to suit any student’s desire during and after a hard
day of lectures, labs and research.
The facilities serve breakfast, lunch and dinner and can offer any student
who is looking to fill his or her stomach with some junk food or a wholesome
meal. Students may dine at the Nugget with their friends and classmates or
grab a bite to go at various snack bars strategically set up throughout the
entire campus.
There are six different restaurants in the University Dining Plaza including
Taco Bell, Panda Express and a bakery. The Nugget and The Beach Walk Cafe are
two school-themed restaurants also located in the dining plaza.
Clint Campbell, director of retail food operations said there will be new restaurant
additions coming soon including the Great Steak Escape and Surf City Squeeze.
“I visit the dining facilities at least once a day for lunch and I spend
about $10-15 a day,” said Nina Cannon, a business marketing student. But
she does warn, “The food stand located in the front of the College of Business
Administration building [doesn’t taste] very fresh. You never know what
you’re going to get.”
To keep with the needs of college students everywhere, one must not forget
the all important budget. CSULB can deliver most of what a student needs for
a reasonable price on any given day.
Students may also visit the University Student Union dining facility, which
has a Carl’s Jr., Subway, El Pollo Loco, Foster’s Freeze, Robek’s
Juice, Round Table Pizza and Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf.
Prices range from $5-7 for various meal combos at the restaurants. The USU
dining facility offers healthy lunches such as the Turkey Breast or Italian
BLT combo at Subway and sweet treats like a vanilla ice cream cone at Foster’s
Freeze.
This semester, students will be able to choose from a variety of foods and
beverages from the dining facilities and snack bars on campus. There will always
be something to accommodate the budget and ease the hunger for all at CSULB,
whatever their taste may be. |
