Save the Bell
Soon, a seismic event will forever alter the way Wash. U. students eat lunch. The much-loved Taco Bell will be replaced by an Asian-themed Bon App‚tit area, thus significantly altering the Mallinckrodt lunchscape for all University community members.
The Forum staff has debated this issue and has yet to emerge with a clear favorite, partly due to a lack of clear information that has been made available by Bon App‚tit about the upcoming change.
Many members of the Forum staff, however, have expressed concern about the imminent lack of Cheesy Gordita Crunches that will be available at lunchtime, as well as the future impossibility of “thinking outside the bun” while on campus.
Concerns have also been expressed about the potential line length of the future Asian eatery; Taco Bell often had the shortest line out of any venue in the food court, so much so that some have claimed they would not have even eaten lunch had they not had the option of the Bell. This is a dramatic statement that the school hopefully considered when deciding to make the switch.
Others contend that the stir fry option at the North Side bodes well for the Asian spot, and, from a multicultural perspective, Bon App‚tit is doing well to expose us to a new, ethnically different lunch option that has the potential to be just as delicious.
Perhaps the most important point in this heated debate is the outdated reason for why Taco Bell is being replaced.
Originally, the movement to replace Taco Bell was fueled by concerns for workers in Florida who wanted an additional penny for each pound of tomatoes they picked, some of which were bought by Taco Bell and used in their food. At this point, however, Taco Bell has given in to the workers and agreed to pay the additional penny per pound, thus making the original point moot.
It is clearly too late to keep Taco Bell after all the effort and preparation that have surely already been put towards the changes, but it is interesting that there is now no real reason why Taco Bell should be booted off campus.
For better or for worse, those of us who need our 7 Layer Burrito fix will soon have to look elsewhere, while University students who need to satisfy their egg roll or moo shu fix will soon have a solution to their problems.
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