FROM ANOTHER ANONYMOUS SOURCE:

"lol, you're lucky you have a car. eat off campus. most people have to deal with stony brook's bullshittedness. white castle and kfc are great places. yeah, stony brook sucks. you are basically paying a huge amount of money to get food poisoning, and why would you want to do that? theres a subway down the street, eat fresh man. oh yeah, also eat at the HSC. their food is really good. they have no remorse food poisioning their students but they can't food poison their patients. The food at the hospital is really good. you should eat there if you're on campus"

FROM AN ANONYMOUS SOURCE/FRIEND OF MINE: 

"The prices are outrageous, but what I find even more frustrating is the fact that Campus Dining requires residents to buy their meal plans. It is difficult to convince the business to charge less prices (and make less money), but I think it is reasonable to terminate the policy that student residents must buy a meal plan. Whatever the initial reason was, I don't know. But all I can say is that students have no problem finding food on their own when they are hungry. The meal plan binds them to stay on campus and eat the cafeteria food because of the very fact that they have the meal plan. 

And like the article mentioned before, the food is not that great, prices are high, and also lines are long. Students loose money, appetite, time, and sacrifice health so some managers can make alot of money. I'm pretty sure they make enough money just from how much they charge AND that ridiculous $600 "service fee." Students who are struggling to pay tuition and other costs doesn't need the headaches of these issues. Food should be something people enjoy. 

Just this past Tuesday on August 28, I went to Kelly Dining (oh please forget trying to cal it West Side to make it sound fancy, everyone knows it as kelly). Here is my story. Walk up to Bob's BBQ to get myself a fish meal since there is no line for the register. This is a group of people waiting at the BBQ for the food, but I thought, hey it shouldn't take that long. I don't know what I was thinking, maybe summer break has been too long and I am just used to how food service everywhere else is fast. Anyways, got my receipt, timestamped 12:26pm, grumbling about he $10.06 price tag, but I really wanted some fish so I put up with it. Wait and watch the two chefs turn out burger after burger. Finally when my number was 20 numbers behind, they put the fish on the grill at 12:46pm. It was still there at 12:51pm. I told the register lady I wanted to cancel the order, they were taking too long. The register lady called some fat chef form the back to talk with me. Instead of saying anything like "I'm sorry it took so long, let me gt your money back" he started yelling at me! He was saying stuff like "wait, it's done see?" and "you know this isn't a sit down restaurant" as he doused the fish in more oil and frantically stir fried it. Are you kidding me? Why am I getting yelled for waiting so long for fish? I'm said "trust me, you don't need to tell me that this isn't a sit down restaurant, everyone knows that already based on the quality of the food and service." The cashier woman gave me my money back. He "finished" coking the fish and offered it to me. As I was reaching for it, but he pulled back and said, "oh wait, you have to pay for it." I was pissed, all CAMPUS DINING cares about is MONEY, they still wanted to charge me for this horrible service. I must have really wanted that fish because I agreed and let them charge me. The fish was still raw inside. At this point, there was a scene, the BBQ was backed up, and I demanded for the manager. The fat chef didn't have the balls to face me, so he just hid in the back kitchen and had the cashier lady call the manager. Some other fat guy in a suit came and gave me my money back. He didn't yell at me, but he didn't say a word to me and also didn't apologize. I left West Side at 1:02pm, late for my 1pm class. Total time wasted and frustrated: 36 minutes. 

I'll let you learn from this experience, let me just quote Raj from Big Bang "Bring [campus dining] down to their bony knees!""