University Of New Orleans Cafeteria

This place is great, for 7 bucks it’s unlimited food. Remember this is a college campus, they aren’t going to be serving casino buffet quality food. Everyday they have burgers, pizza, french fries, sandwich bar, salad bar, and comfort food that varies daily. It’s simple. If you want to eat some super dooper healthy food and are super picky then go to whole foods and pay 7 dollars for a piece of bread. I wish this place had existed when I was in school there. To those of you who never experienced what it was before, it was a pay as choose deal. The more stuff you put on your plate, the more you paid. Your meal would never cost 7 bucks, it would easily be way more.

I missed the last bus of the night few nights ago and spent an unexpected amount of money to get a cab, so that kinda discouraged me from getting a fine meal the next day. My friend took me to this cafeteria and I was not expecting much, but I was happy with what I got for $ 8. Cooked vegetables weren’t salty like the ones from restaurants, hot pasta, great waffles with real honey, yummy corn bread, and fresh salads. Their cake was really good, too. I ended up going there to see what more they have and if they serve the same thing for the next meal. Nope. A completely diffefent meal. I was very happy especially since it was right after I was so disappointed with the food I got at one of the best rated restaurants in NOLA. This isn’t a bad cafeteria. Maybe if the serving lady listened to my asking to just give a little instead of heaping amount of serving, I could have given 4 stars. So much food…

The food is okay and there are plenty of options. The only reason why I am giving this place two stars is that lack of rules. I get that’s it’s a cafeteria on a college campus, but I don’t see why «no shoes, no shirt, no service» doesn’t apply.

I’d never really planned on writing a review for a college cafeteria, but i was bored and browsing nearby Unilocal reviewed shenanigans when i saw that it had one and a half stars.
I hate pulling out the class card but here goes; i can’t imagine anyone who values their money hating this place. At seven dollars and change, you get access to the all you can eat buffet. That’s not just a good deal compared to nice sit down restaurants. Consider Gene’s, consider Hank’s Seafood, toss in any hole in the wall place you’d care to, this is damn near the best deal in new orleans.
so, it’s cheap, dirt cheap, but who cares about the price if the food’s shit, right? so let’s all thank god that it’s just average to above average depending on the day. I’ve had really good pork sandwiches here and just okay fish. pretty tasty red beans and rice, and way too chewy spare ribs. the great thing is, if you don’t like the comfort food station, which is easily the most dubious from a health perspective, you have so many other options. the salad bar is always stocked with lots of fresh tasting vegetables, and there is a nice diversity of toppings, from bacon bits to cottage cheese. toss in the always competent soup station, the rotating sandwich stations, the day long continental breakfast, unlimited whole milk and desserts if you’re feeling fancy, and, well… that’s a goddamn bargain in this economy. Cheap food that tastes okay and isn’t half bad for you.
i give it a personal four because it’s a bloody dream when you combine unlimited food with taking advantage of the UNO gym. for everyone else… A-​OK

On the days I don’t pack a lunch (or forget it on the counter) I eat at the UNO cafeteria out of necessity. The buffet costs about $ 7 and you can either sit inside and stuff your face or pack a to-​go box and hang outside on the patio. I know it sounds simple, but as a picky eater, I’m glad they have a PB&J station. It’s hard to fuck up a PBJ. The salad bar is very basic… lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers. Some days they have tater tots and it makes me happy.
In addition to the All You Can Eat Buffet, there’s a Subway, Chick-​fil-​A, coffee shop, and an unknown pizza/​pasta combination joint. All Aramark. All the time. Well, not really all the time… Not even most of the time. Due to the low numbers of on-​campus residents, these places are quick to close. So if you plan on an after-​sundown study session in the library, pack a snack.

A bad restaurant may go out of business if its food is not good — that’s the basic rule of competition. The point of dining is high pleasure, and we all expect a dining time with full of laughter, serious discussion and demands for more of the food. However, when it comes to monopoly, it’s a different story: the restaurant doesn’t have the threat of failure as a spur for improvement. I’m talking about Aramark Campus Dining in the University Of New Orleans, which has been serving UNO and torturing UNO students for years. Although the food there is cheap, for me and the other diners, very often, a low price cannot compensate for the joyful experience of dining.
Located in the University Center (the UC), the Aramark Campus Dining is not alone; there are also Subway, Chick-​fi-​la, Béné Pizza and Pasta for students to choose different food for the meals. They serve as direct competitors to the university’s cafeteria. The University Of New Orleans, envisioning that there would be a big threat of competition for the running of its low quality restaurant, provided it a good guarantee by forcing all students living in the dorm to buy a meal plan. The meal plan for residents starts at $ 1,135 per semester and ranges from 10 to 16 meals per week. Although the university has been trying to make improvements such as expanding the campus dinning area, the food quality still remains uncompetitive. There is pizza, spaghetti, fried chicken, tacos, turkey, sandwiches, hamburgers, French fries, or some kind of American food, depending on the day you go to eat. Many times you will be served a hamburger with a muffin soaked in artificial butter oil, toasted and assembled with beef, which was cooked in a large quantity at one time. If you are unlucky enough, the beef may be burned and blackened and look like coal that is not so delicious. The French fries there are the worst I have ever eaten in the US. Please don’t be frightened when you are faced with a full plate of fried potatoes, full of oil, cold and soft enough to discourage the diner from even tasting them. That’s malevolently bad.
The variety of foods is poor. For breakfast, the options are unchanging: only sausage, omelet, egg and bacon. Lunch and dinner have different foods, depending on the day you go to the cafeteria; however there are only a few I consider to be «edible». Not only being stressed out by homework, but also being freaked out by the food in the UC makes me even more tired. There is no music for the meal, but only the noise because of people talking too much, especially at lunch. I’m amazed by how crowded the UC is every meal, and it makes me wonder if there are any students that have passed out or have been taken to the emergency room due to the UC food or not. In fact, the restaurant can do some more valuable change to improve the quality of the food, for example, serve different fruits for each meal. Nevertheless, it seems to assume all students have the same preferences for everyday, so the cafeteria always provide the cheapest fruit, cheapest pizzas … available.
I believe that bad food will give us memories of flavors that may later haunt and follow us in our dreams. I live in the dorm, and I’m forced to go the campus dining 10 times a week. After finishing a day full of work, I go to the University Center, saturated by the smell of fatty American food, and I feel that I even have more tiresome work to do: eat the food to survive. Maybe I’m a bit prejudiced with American food since I’m an Asian, but why can I enjoy Burger King, McDonalds and KFC but cannot give any compliment to the UNO Campus dining? The campus dining is supposed to provide relaxation and relief for students, not take their money and abuse them with bad food.