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[sixafterseven]

When did the Great Hall become (at least occasionally) good? I just had a meatball sub with actual vegetables on the side for less than I'd spend to wait 15 minutes for a burger and fries at the Loop. And since nobody's realized that the Great Hall is (at least occasionally) good, there's virtually no line

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[coleoptera]

I've always thought the general dining halls at Duke were great--people are so used to restaurant style food options because there are so many that aren't fast food and that have good hours (and decent food, honestly) that they really overlook the fact that the dining halls at Duke have been rated highly consistently for many, many years. When I was applying to colleges, I ate at Cornell when they were the best in the nation, and Duke was virtually identical in quality, ambience and offering.

Plus, with that option open, it's easier to eat healthily. Even eating at a place like Subway, it's easy to eat poorly. Nowhere else on campus really offers a good consistent and variable healthy MEAL option (Blue Express is great but not a huge variety in and of one day, plus no dinner.)

[sixafterseven]

That is interesting; suppose people are just comparing what they have to the best. I'd be really excited about more of a "cheap, but halfway decent" dining hall option- if the only way to get decent breaks out of the lowest meal plan, that's a discouragement from eating healthily.

I heard thirdhand or so that the Blue Express people considered dinner, but a big part of their lunch audience is faculty/grad students/staff who aren't there for dinner, and students probably wouldn't make the trek Way Out in Engineering for food.