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| PitchForks. N.d. Photograph. Tempe, AZ. Flickr. 25 Mar. 2010. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/asupcg/4691439777/>. |
Located on the first floor of the Memorial Union, Pitchforks is one of the main dining halls located on Arizona State University's Tempe campus. Serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner, Pitchforks always has fresh food at all times of the day; well, as long as they're open at least. Pitchforks serves a range of different foods from around the world such as: Mexican, Italian, Chinese, Japanese and as well as American favorites like hamburgers and hot dogs. The wide range of foods makes it easy for international students to feel at home. It also provides students to try new and interesting foods that they may not have been able to try otherwise. The hours of Pitchforks accommodates any students class schedule. Open from Monday to Saturday, Pitchforks is easy and accessible to anyone who will get their money's worth at this buffet style dining hall. This dinning hall is accessible to anyone and everyone. Most of the customers of this restaurant are the students who live on campus or other students who have purchased a meal plan. Depending on the meal plan that you purchase depends on the amount of meals available to you each week. For example, myself, I purchased the eight meals per week while also comes with $350 of Maroon and Gold dollars (also called M&G's are explained in the post about the Pod). This allows me to have one meal each day and two meals on one day each week.
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| Basic Sun Card. N.d. Photograph. Card Services. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. <https://www.asu.edu/purchasing/suncard/cardservices/suncard-tilt.jpg>. |
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| NEW Pitchfork Card. N.d. Photograph. Card Services. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. <https://www.asu.edu/purchasing/suncard/cardservices/suncard-tilt.jpg>. |
The only thing that I find and other students find frustrating is that these meals do not roll over from one week to another. According to Adrienne Wellard, a Freshman at Arizona State University, who also has the same meal plan as myself, says "I have class all morning and afternoon and then I have work at night. For me, I find it annoying that my meals do not roll over each week because I have minimal time to use my meal plans, and often I do not use my meal plan every day. I feel that I am not getting my money's worth of meals since I had to pay for my meal plan out of my own pocket." Wellard's statement shows why many students who do not use their meal plans as often as they could find it unfair that their meal plans are being wasted every week; especially to those students who are using their hard earned salary to pay for these meals. Other students like Elizabeth Moran, also a Freshman at Arizona State University, find that they are getting their meals worth of food each week. Moran, who has a fourteen meal per week allowance, finds it convenient that she can have up to two meals a week, "I like having this specific meal plan because I get to have either breakfast and lunch, breakfast and dinner, or lunch and dinner depending when I have time to eat. Plus I do not have to spend extra money to have snacks or other foods in my dorm." Along with Wellard's statement about meal plans she finds that the food quality is not the best it could potentially be. "I feel if they had a more variety of foods each week, I could like it more. I hate eating the same thing every week." says Wellard. Depending on the student and their meal plan, there are varying opinions on the meals plans and the food itself at Pitchforks.
Below is a link to the menu to Pitchforks.
Here, you can find the weekly menu at Pitchforks and as well at other dining halls located on all four Arizona State University campuses.
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http://www.communitywalk.com/map/index/1541327
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