Does anyone agree that Barone gets worse and worse each day?
Alright, that might be a little harsh, but sometimes I find myself walking in circles thinking, what in the world am I going to eat? Thank God for the salad man who makes my lunch every day.
Mike Merriman ’12, said, “When I walk into Barone it’s always a constant battle of what to eat.” I could not agree more.
As I entered Barone on the first day of school my jaw seemed to drop. No to-go cups, no plastic ice cream bowls or spoons and weird dispenser things for the toppings, which make much more of a mess then last year’s normal topping containers. What has the world of Barone come to? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I understand that they’re trying to reduce waste, but I’d say about 99 percent of Barone attendants like to take their ice cream to go. Although, last week was an exciting week when the to go coffee cups finally came back.
Also, so many other schools have normal sized to-go boxes, but in Barone we’re forced to be stuffing bagels into plastic bags and then hiding them in our backpacks or sweatshirts. Having to steal from Barone is a bit pathetic.
Oh, and don’t even get me started on the 6:15 p.m. rush. If I had one word of advice for freshmen, it would be DO NOT go to Barone at 6:15 during the school week! Last week I had the worst Barone experience in my college career thus far. It was around 6:17 and I strolled into Barone to find a swarm of people trying to stuff food onto their plates and get a seat.
Trying to get a table around Barone’s rush hour is like trying to get seats to a Bob Marley concert — it’s not going to happen.As I took about 40 laps around the cafeteria I finally found a table to squeeze into. Then I entered the food area to find that there were no clean plates. As I made my way to the food I was shoved, stepped on and bumped into about seven times. Not to mention someone dropped all the ice cream bowls just to top everything off.
Pat McGee ’12 has a contrasting view of Barone, “Best place on earth. Barone. Home of heavenly food and even more heavenly drinks.”
Keep in mind McGee was also one of the few students who chose to bump up their meal plan to 14 meals a week instead of 12.
Although it is hard for me to agree with McGee’s positive outlook, I guess Barone isn’t all bad. The staff is friendly, and you can get pretty creative in the stir fry section.
Overall, there are definitely areas where Barone could use improvement, like getting to-go containers and figuring out a way to reduce the horrid rush hour. But a good Barone experience does occur every now and then.
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