Hassayampa Dining Hall

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner is Served!

Here at the Hassayampa Dinning Hall, students can fill their stomachs with just about anything you could find at a local buffet styled restaurant. Buffets are by far the most useful thing to any college student just starting out. Food can become costly, having to buy at least three meals per day, seven days per week for the whole semester will cause a decent sized hole in your pocket, and the last thing any student needs is to scramble for a job to just pay for food. With bottomless food availability within the dining hall, students are guaranteed at least one good meal per day, depending on your meal plan you can range from one to unlimited, and that one meal has the potential to fill their stomachs for a few hours; once one plate is empty, feel free to grab another burger or couple pieces of pizza (Tempe Campus Meal Plans). Perhaps a salad or wrap is more your taste? Whatever it may be, the Dining Hall will most likely have what you are looking for and knowing that is a big advantage to residents.

Students meet up right outside of the Hall to eat together.
Directly behind this photo is the entrance  to Hassy

In addition, the Dining Hall is so close in proximity to the front doors of Hassy, its residents need only take a few steps to find their meals. If the cafeteria did not exist, students would need to either go to Pitchforks or one of the other food choices over at the Student Memorial Union, a five minute walk at least. Another option would to cross Rural and find a quick meal at Burger king or chips at Circle k. However, this is not the case, and there is a cafeteria, so everyone is happy. Or are they?

The staff here at the Hassy Dining Hall is nice and effective when it comes to serving your food, but there are a few complaints about some things they do. When you want bacon, you want bacon, and two slices are not going to cut it. This goes for pizza as well. What good does it when they cut 16 small slices instead of eight or ten medium sized when the same amount is taken in both cases, whether it is two small or one medium piece? The answer is quantity control. The cooks want to make sure they have enough food to feed the huge number of students that show up to eat, running out would be a big letdown. However, I have seen people and I have done it too, who will get a plate with pancakes, sausage, eggs, and bacon, sit down and eat it, and then jump right back in line and ask for just sausage and bacon again. Why should we have to make multiple trips if the hall works as a buffet?

A solution to this would be having the ability to substitute, say, one sausage for one bacon. In this example, you could hypothetically have two of each, one sausage and three bacon, no sausage and four bacon or vice versa. That way, you could give up your sausage for more bacon, leaving more sausage in the bin for the next person to choose and theoretically there would be just as much bacon and sausage in those bins as there would be if we had gone back for seconds. A second solution would depend on the time of day. For instance, if it is a quarter to eleven o’ clock, the time lunch is usually beginning to be served, the leftover breakfast foods could be placed in a counter open to anyone to grab as much as they please. Since breakfast is over by this time, it would save the food instead of throwing it away. Pitchforks, the Dining Hall at the MU actually does this, but I have not yet seen this at the Hassy Hall, and I strongly believe it would benefit the faculty at the cafeteria by not throwing it away and the students by getting as much as they want.

Cereal is available open to close every day.