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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1979
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Battalion Reporter
Some students on the board plan
wasting their own money every
e they eat.
According to Lloyd Smith, assis-
t director of Food Services, the
extra napkins or extra packets of
It and pepper students take but
ver use contribute to the cost of
e board plan.
Each person eating in the campus
istoalk n ' n § facilities — Sbisa, the Com-
’ . o i ons and Duncan — takes an aver-
ve ‘ e of 3.2 napkins per meal. Smith
id. Each napkin costs Food Serv-
mber woii es .3 cents, so napkins cost a
by morel! , nn y person per meal.
1 the fede “That doesn’t sound like much
not more, y OU consider that we serve
And a fr|, ver a million meals per year in
y cut tfe^isa alone,” says Smith.
Thus, he says. Food Services
lends $40,000 a year on napkins
ne. Reducing waste would help
ep costs down.
The same problem exists with the
mber of salt and pepper packets
ers take at each meal. “People
grab handfuls of each one and
leonly one or two packets,” Smith
id.
; If waste were prevented or re
duced it would slow the increase in
he cost of the board plan. Smith
|id, though due to the inflation
Ite, prices will probably continue
to grow.
The 1979 price of the five- and
ven-day board plans increased 5
:rcent over the 1978 cost. In April
|979, the cost of serving a meal had
creased 21 percent over the cost of
rving a meal in September, 1978,
|nith said. In 1978 it cost Texas
M $1.78 to serve a meal, com-
iredto$2.27 in 1979, he said.
Students on the five-day board
|an are charged $1.82 per meal and
ose on the seven-day board plan
yonly $1.57 per meal. The differ-
Jnce in cost and price is made up by
he missed meal factor, an estima-
jon of the number of meals a stu-
|ent will pay for but not eat.
[Food Services put up posters
bout the salt and pepper dispen-
jers last year urging students to
enjoy a complete meal” but not to
aste food. Food Services also car
les out other programs to combat
paste.
"We’ve let the student leaders
now about the problem,” Smith
aid. Each facility manager meets
reekly with what is called a “mini
fienu board.” The manager chooses
bur or five students at random each
week and talks with them about the
roblems concerning Food Serv
es, including waste. The managers
fek the students for comments or
jomplaints about the Food Service
iystem.
Food Services is also making
management changes to combat the
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Smith said. He said the cost of a
meal includes not only the price of
food, but the cost of labor, utilities.
supplies and facilities.
Smith said Food Services has
changed buying procedures so food
and supplies can be bought in bulk.
avoiding the middleman. In addi
tion, Smith said, every article dis
carded by Food Services personnel
must be approved by a manager to
avoid wasting materials like brooms,
mops, portions scales and utensils.
Single-family
homes still
preferred
United Press International
LINCOLN, Neb. — Even with
escalating housing and energy costs,
most potential home buyers still
prefer conventional, single-family
homes, says Ardis Hutchins, an In
stitute of Agriculture and Natural
Resources extension housing
specialist.
Recent surveys have indicated
people strongly prefer single-family
homes to mobile homes, apartments
or pre-fabricated homes, she said.
The most popular style appears to
be the one-story ranch, and most
buyers also want a basement.
Although many say they are will
ing to purchase a rehabilitated older
home, the University of Nebraska-
Lincoln specialist said few are in
terested in older homes that need
substantial renovation.
United Press International
MEXICO CITY — Mexican Pres
ident Jose Lopez Portillo travels to
the United States today to address
the U.N. General Assembly on his
vision for a world energy plan and to
hold two rounds of important talks
with President Carter.
The Mexican chief of state be
lieves that petroleum and other
fuels are a patrimony of mankind
that should be shared among all na
tions and he will attempt to sell his
idea to the world body during his
address Thursday.
Though Lopez Portillo has yet to
explain his plan in detail, dozens of
foreign dignitaries who have visited
Mexico this year, including Carter
himself, reportedly have endorsed
his ideas.
Lopez Portillo and Carter will
huddle twice over the weekend at
the White House — their second
meeting in seven months — to for
malize a natural gas deal and discuss
the delicate issue of undocumented
workers.
Last week, after it was announced
that a U.S.-Mexican gas deal had
been taken off the Washington
agenda, Mexico agreed to sell the
United States 300 million cubic feet
a day at $3.62 per thousand cubic
feet.
The price was pegged to oil
prices, meaning that when petro
leum goes up, so will the natural
gas.
Roth men are also expected to
tackle an array of problems affecting
the neighboring nations and review
overall relations that apparently
have improved somewhat since Car
ter visited Mexico in mid-February.
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Battalion photo by Lynn Blanco
These trays full of wasted food are costing students more
money each year. The 1979 price of the five- and seven-day
board plans was 5 percent higher than 1978’s. The increase
was due to waste and inflation, according to officials in Texas
A&M’s Food Services Department.
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