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The campus dining hall rules are that you may only bring food home in a specific, school-provided container, which you may exchange for an identical container at any time in order to have it cleaned. If the dining hall runs out of green containers, you may instead exchange yours for a token which you can trade in for one later.
I came to the dining hall with a token, forgot to exchange it at the desk, grabbed food, and had leftovers I wanted to take home. I went to the front desk to quickly exchange my token for a container, and was informed that, if and only if I had already eaten, I had to swipe again to exchange my token.
What on earth could the the source of this policy? Itâs stupid and arbitrary, thatâs a given, but there has to be some rationale, and I have no idea what on earth it could be. There has to be some âwell, technicallyâ for it to be something theyâre told to enforce. I have unlimited swipes, it doesnât actually matter, but I hate not understanding things.
âŚwhy the hell can you only use one specific container
my dining hall has something similar and also a fairly strict no leftovers policy (youâre allowed to take out a fruit or an ice cream cone and i think thatâs it) so the extra cost is probably because they consider the in house meal and the leftovers as two separate meals
as for why the dining hall has a no leftovers policy⌠i canât answer that one.
But you can eat as many meals as you want if you just eat them in there! Presumably!
If I took a container in and didnât exchange the token, itâd be the same⌠you can take the same amount of food out, you only get one container
But that makes, like, some sense as a policy they might think is real
would you actually get in trouble for using a non-school supplied food container
at my uni they donât let you have food there and also for the green box. so if you ate there it probably counts as a separate meal as anything in the green box
probably. your options are eat there (in which case they provide plates and the like) or green box
the dining hall operates on weird and mysterious rules that no one fully understands the reasoning behind
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Hmm weird. That might be an unenforced rule, then? Because you can, like, visibly have a green box in your hand and get a meal, you can visibly have Another Plate Of Food in your hand and get a meal, etc
I wasnât listening when they told us the rules
If you donât hold the exit door for people trying to avoid spending swipes youâre a cop
itâs a very enforced rule at my uni. they let you have two plates worth of meals at once you can get as much food as you want. as long as itâs in the dining hall
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