Schaefer Beer
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RE: Undergraduate Student Declines
(04-11-2022 07:04 AM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote: (04-10-2022 11:50 PM)Schaefer Beer Wrote: (04-10-2022 03:09 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote: (04-10-2022 02:30 PM)Dog Fan Wrote: (04-10-2022 02:02 PM)HawaiiToNIU Wrote: Is this a joke or are you serious? In my time, the food was okay, but not great.
Dogpound deli for sub sandwiches. Not quite Subway, but pretty good
Stevenson had options. I was there post remodel, it was like a food court with tons of options.
Grant Hall had Sunday Brunch. It was like an all you can eat Denny's in there. Made to order omelets and other great dishes to make you forget the horrors if drinking the nights before. The also had random good dinners on weekdays. Like STEAK DINNER.
Everything else was just basic. Better than hospital food, but I wouldn't go out of my way for it.
I enjoyed the food in the dorms. The Plaza food was outstanding. For Thursday dinner (maybe it was once a month), we had an outstanding dinner, such as steak or some exotic dish, served with nice tablecloths and candles on the tables. For lunch, they often served a cheeseburger covered with a sharp cheddar cheese sauce that was to die for. I’d give $50 for one of those now! Desserts were also great. There was a guy on my floor who gained 30 pounds during the year.
Now I did hear that the Plaza food was world class. I got to try it a few times touring the place. And can vouch for it. It was restaurant quality. Like Chili's or Fridays.
When I lived at the dorms in the mid-eighties, the food was very institutional like. To me, it was edible but I'll eat anything. Typical dinner was Encore-grade Salisbury steak with brown liquid on top, watery mashed potatoes and canned mixed vegetables. Did it do the job for me? Yeah, but I didn't expect Chez Paul to begin with so it didn't bother me, but I know during dinner time the Douglas lobby was packed waiting for pizza deliveries because people didn't like what they were serving that night.
The Plaza was like heaven after a year of NIU dorm food.
From what I heard, there were disputes between the food company that contracted with NIU to run the cafeterias at the dorms and NIU administration because the food company was not living up to the standards that were spelled out in the contract. But they didn't change companies and the food stayed at the same quality. They must have given a discount to NIU to stop their complaining.
Brutal. Dorm food wasn't that bad when I went. It was certainly better than hospital food. What were the weapons of choice for pizza back then? Pizza pros was our favorite. That is until I discovered Pizza Villa down the road.
The main pizza places when I went was Domino's, Little Caesars, Pizza World, Pizza Villa St. Peppers, J.P. Hannigans and Sam's. And I forgot Paglai's.
Out of all of them Sam's was the best. I think they had a day where it was cheap to order a pizza. Sam's didn't cater much to the students, they were happy with the Townfolk business. Sam's tasted like the pizza you would get in the Chicagoland area.
Domino's, LC & PW were cardboard pizzas, but the most ordered because they were cheap and had quantity(doubles). Cheap and quantity always overruled taste.
Peppers and Hannigans pizza was decent but expensive. The rich kids would order from them. Pizza Villa was between Dominos and Peppers for price and taste.
I never went to Paglai's until my last semester senior year even though they had all you can eat Pizza on Tuesday's for 5 bucks. They also had BYOB. So 4 of us would go when it opened at 4, bring a couple of cases of Schaefer at 5.99/case and play spades in a booth until it closed. They kept the cases in their frig and as we played and if we got hungry, we just order a pizza.
They never had a problem with us doing that.
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