I would hope [students] would understand… we don't arbitrarily look to raise the board rate. |
If there are a lot of calls, we do take a look at that stuff. Some people like to demonize us. In many cases, we accommodate the students. |
It's a matter of the costs of doing business. We have a yearly sit-down with a dining services contract committee and we lay [the cost] out. We chat about it and they take our plan back to review… It's a pretty straightforward process. |
She has a very patron-oriented point of view. |
She's covered all the bases wonderfully. She works well with both staffs. |
The operating schedule is a collective decision based on a monstrous review a couple years back. |
The year we opened Appalachian was a sizable jump, somewhere around 9 percent. It's an issue at our management meetings all the time. For us to be able to keep it at [4 percent]… we're pretty happy with that. |
We are kicking it off next week and the plan is have it deployed by fall. |