[2063] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: [Mit-talk] [UA-SCATR] New Card initiative
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dheera Venkatraman)
Mon Jul 10 13:18:56 2006
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:18:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dheera Venkatraman <dheera@mit.edu>
To: Peter Finin <pfinin@alum.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1d5e69660607101005s3021aba3h7db17804c59b412c@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: mit-talk@mit.edu
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On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Peter Finin wrote:
> Jeff Roberts said:
>> I only have to observe that the argument for having a more
>> market-driven type of food service system, that operates without any
>> subsidy or mandatory up-front payment, is a very thoughtful and
>> reasonable one, in theory. Unfortunately, no provider has been able
>> to make it work -- or perhaps has never really been willing to try. I
>> think that students who are interested enough in this (not you and me,
>> Jacob, unfortunately we're too old for this) need to ask the right
>> questions in order to figure out why.
well, no, i totally agree with the market idea. if the provider is good
enough to attract a market, they will profit and all will be happy. if the
provider sucks, doesn't have variety or quality, they won't make a profit
or lack business. their business will die and leave MIT. and that's
*fine*. that's how it *should* work. if MIT or the business is not
profiting, close it down. open something else if you like, but don't
create mandatory plans to crappy places.
if no provider can provide decent quality stuff to want to make students
dine daily at their locations, they might as well go away. i don't care
for their existence. between crappy food and no food on campus,
it makes no difference to me. i find my food elsewhere 99% of the time as
it is. and if any student is complaining that they can't walk 5 minutes to
star, they are lame. now if we can so have the luxury of having actually
good food on campus at a decent price, they'll earn my business.
and steam cafe also long lost most of it's coolness points with me. they
used to be cool, but like every other food business around here their
quality took a plunge a few months ago.
-dheera
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