With the addition of two new locations and the ability to pay with meal plans, students now have a completely new dining experience on campus.
Last year, the Reef was the only place on campus that was meal plan friendly. While it did have the Red Mango Café (now the Coral Café), students could only make purchases with cash, card or individually purchased Sharkbites credit.
Now that all three locations accept the new system of declining dollars, students can get Starbucks coffee drinks whenever they want with just a swipe of their meal plan card.
“Compared to last semester, the hours are longer and it’s much easier to get what you want when you want it,” Lizzie Desorsiers, a freshman, said. “There are so many more options and the World of Wings Café is awesome. I love being able to go play pool with my friends and enjoy a meal at the same time.”
Open only since the beginning of the semester, WOW Café in the Coquina Club has gained popularity among students, offering three TVs, a pool table, air hockey and foosball. Along with its alluring amenities, WOW Café can also attribute its popularity to its food. Students have nothing but praise for the menu when polled around campus.
The Crow’s Nest took a convenience sample of a hundred students throughout campus over the course of a week, asking them where they thought was the best dining option on campus. Though some students were unaware of WOW Café’s existence, it still won more 38 percent of the votes, more than any other dining option acquired.
“The wings are my favorite and there are a ton of different sauce options,” freshman Kenneth Haynes said. “They’re not like those small wings you would get at any other place, they are actually really big and definitely worth it.”
The Reef still offers daily entrees as well as a variety of other options. For the first time it is offering freshly made sushi.
Twenty students were asked in another poll to rate items such as cheeseburgers, sushi, chicken tenders, pizza and deli items on a scale of one to five. The sushi averaged a 4.4 rating, beating everything else on the list. The least popular choice was the chicken tenders with a rating below three.
