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Page 2F/The Battalion/Monday, August 27, 1984 Fast-food restaurants changing styles EDUCATIONAL CENTER TEST PREPARATION SPECIALISTS SINCE 1938 By SUZANNA YBARRA Reporter dustry is moving toward providing fast, good quality food. Call Days, Eves & Weekends It’s not too late yet Call 696-3196 for details They want it faster, better and cheaper. Considering today’s high prices, two out of three isn’t too bad. Today’s fast-food customers are tough people to please, because most of them have been fast-fooders since they could walk. They’re pros at eat ing out, so they expect more. Restaurants are changing their styles to accommodate the more se lective consumers, by adding a wider variety of foods to their menus. No tice the salad bar at Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers, and the ham, bacon, sausage and supreme crescents at Tack-in-the-Box; not too 4 Eating the Finer foods has its price. Ulrich said that in 1983 each person in Bryan-College Station spent an average $660 on eating out. Brazos County averaged $6.9 mil lion in 1983, 21 percent higher than the state average and 74 percent higher than the national average, she said, probably because the mar ket is stronger among the 18-24 age group, and most of Texas A&M’s students are in that group. Bailey was emphatic that he was not spending his money on junk food. dy’s spent more that $30 million to market and prepare the restaurants to carry the potatoes. “It’s not junk food, it’s meal food,” he said. “Junk food is stuff you don’t need. Junk food is like...fertilizer for cicne.” Bailey said he’d rather do without all the greasy food, and opts to buy salads or chicken baskets. Families are important to the food industry. Children who are taken out to eat become accustomed to going out, a habit that will stay with them when they become adults. Killeen, Midland and Odessa( Archie’s 39«: Hamburgers will panel its menu soon and Taco* will have some additions too. I He said every time a newT . item is added to Taco Bell's uj sales increase 15-20 percent, [| i . Thf v A few years ago salads couldn’t be found in a burger bar, or baked po tatoes, either. Students don’t realize how much they’re spending until they actually add it up. Creighton Bailey, 18, eats out about every other day. pul iblii E.C. Archambault, better known as Archie of Archie’s Taco Bell and Archie’s 39g Hamburgers, said he has seen a group grow up since he opened his first Taco Bell in 1976. increase tomers like variety. They speedy service, so Archaml added another time savingsenitt his original Taco Bell. shabby for “hamburger joints.’ EDUCATIONAL CENTER TEST PREPARATION SPECIALISTS SINCE 1938 Gabriele Ulrich of the Texas Res taurant Association said people tend to associate the term fast-food with fried food or junk food, but the in- “Fve probably been to the Deluxe about 100 times in my life, no... more than 100...200,” Bailey said, “and spent $5 every time. What’s that...about $1,000? And I’ve only been going steadily for a year and a half!” lie relations for Wendy’s in Dublin, Ohio, said Wendy’s sells about 600,000 baked potatoes a day in its 2,840 restaurants. They’re also test ing about 48 new food items, he said. “We know when you can satisfy everyone in the family, you’re more likely to get them back,” Quicksall sdid. A baked potato has a lot of ap peal, as a full meal or as a side dish, he said. It has so much appeal, Wen- The sdme group of Bryan High School students who ate at his first Taco Bell are bringing their families with them now. He said his custom ers are as young as toddlers who eat everything their fathers eat. He calls his new drive4rtq| “Aggie Ingenuity.” The through was built so the pas in the car receives the food than the driver. It takes some used to, but sales have increasej percent, he said. “It’s a snowball once it gets star ted,” he said. Archambault, who owns 10 res taurants in Bryan, College Station, So, fast-fooders have mort choose from than ever before, even if they can’t “getchangek. from their dollar,” they can si “two all-beef-patties, special s®| lettuce, cheese, pickles, onionsot sesame-seed bun.” Call Days, Eves & Weekends There’s still time to prepare Call 696-3196 for details Quiz files give students insight into teachers testing procedures 707 T exas Ave In Dallas: 1617 N. Central expwy. By MICHAEL CANNATA Reporter YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE TO EAT OUT? Check the Battalion ads! Texas A&M has three quiz files for students who are looking for clues about teacher’s tests. The larg est and busiest one is in the base ment of Heldenfels Hall, in the Learning Resources Center. Jackie DePalma, supervisor of the LRC, says freshman chemistry and biology students use the quiz files the most. She says they usually hear about them from their professors. Tests from previous semesters with answers are in the files. Some times professors also make up prac tice tests for the files. On the front wall of the LRC is a bulletin listing most of the courses that have quiz files. Files can be checked out with a student I.D. card for two hours. If the file isn’t on a waiting list, the checkout time may be extended for special situations. DePalma says she updates the quiz files continuously. “I don’t like to keep anything that is more than a year old, because I feel like the material is too far out dated,’’she says. Some professors like the quiz files and others won’t have anything to do with them, DePalma says. She has even gone to professors herself try ing to get them to supply the LRC with quizzes for their courses, but professors are more likely to re spond to requests from students, she says. “I can let the teachers know that we are here and we want tests, but if the students don’t go to the profes sors and say they really want this and they plan to use it, the professor might not put two and two toge ther,” she says. The reserve room in the Sterling C. Evans Library has many of the quiz tiles that the LRC doesn’t. They are listed in the reference computer in the main lobby and in the reserve room. Attendants at the front counter of the reserve room will find the quiz files requested. A valid library card is required. “Quiz files are probably our most prized posessions,” Motquin says. “Sometimes we may be a little more lenient and allow students to use an I.D. card or just punch in their name without having their library card. There are no ifs-ands-or-buts with the quiz files, and the penalty for overdue items is pretty steep.” Motquin says some students would rather pay the dollar per hour pen alty for keeping a file more than two hours, hoping for a better grade on their test. Only 30 percent of the University hz professors have quizzes on file, but even so there is quite a variety. Many of the quizzes have been donated by the student government from do nors across the campus. Dan Mizer, area coordinator for the Commons, says the Commons no longer bets a quiz file but people still come there looking for one. The room where the quizzes were kept has since been turned into a make shift office. The remaining quizzes were turned over to student govern ment. The last but probably most com plete quiz file belongs the Corps of Cadets. Each outfit has its own file. A general listing of all the quiz files can be found in the guard house. Lt. Col. Donald Johnson, assistant commandant, says the quiz files are open to anyone who wants to use them. The Corps has no policy about who uses the quiz files because each unit is responsible for its own file. “The units themselves have orga nized the quiz files so they belong to them,” Johnson says. “Whoever uses them is strictly up to the individual units. They are not something that belongs to the university per se.” Advertising index Section F Beauty: The Hair Cut 1 IF Something Else 4F Bookstores: Scripture Haven 3F Rother’s 11F Texas Aggie Bookstore ....10F Department Store: WalMart 5F Educational Services: Stanley Kaplan 2,12,13F Entertainment: Dr. G’s 4F Exercise: The Waist Basket 12F Florist: Aggieland and University Flowers 4F Furniture: Crown Furniture 6F Discount Furniture Outlet 8F Twin City Furniture IF Unfinished Furniture 11F Landscape/N u rsery: Contemporary Landscapes 11F Laund *ry: Woodstone Wash House ,.J C Medical Services: Byran/C.S. 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