California’s minimum wage increased by 40 cents to $16.90 per hour on Jan. 1, reflecting the state’s annual wage adjustments to accommodate rising inflation rates, with many Cal Poly students relying on this wage increase to cover their expenses.
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Campus Dining is serving international students’ recipes from home this week
Campus Dining and the Cal Poly International Center have collaborated to bring five new international meals to campus, featuring recipes from international students, in celebration of International Education Week.
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Healthy eating at Cal Poly? Good luck avoiding on-campus fast food
This is going to be controversial, and I know that. But come on, Chick-fil-A, Panda Express, Taco Bell, Starbucks…these are considered some of the unhealthiest dining options across the US, and Cal Poly decided to put all four of them on campus. We deserve better, healthier, more diverse dining options.
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Yerba Mates are everywhere. Why do students love this drink?
This story is featured in the Jan. 2025 print edition. Kaylie Wang is a English freshman and Mustang News opinion columnist. The opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of Mustang Media Group. I never heard of Yerba Mates before coming to Cal Poly. Once school started, the yellow cans surrounded me everywhere: in […]
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Cal Poly’s dining scene from behind the counter
The scent of freshly cooked food wafts as one walks through 1901 Marketplace. Tables line the wall, students are seen studying or hanging out with friends. They enjoy meals they bought from the different dining options available at this particular venue. A similar atmosphere permeates Vista Grande, where many on-campus students explore what Cal Poly’s […]
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Dining Dollars may feel fake, but the consequences are real
Besides, dining dollars are fake money! Students are reminded about this daily living in the dorms–it’s a big inside joke that dining dollars don’t feel real since they’ve already been paid for at the beginning of the school year. They’re a deep endless well in the form of a digital Grubhub account, from which you can buy unlimited Scout Coffee lattes and Campus Market breakfast burritos.
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Eight Vista Grande restaurants achieve Certified Green Restaurant status
All eight of Vista Grande’s second-floor restaurants earned Certified Green Restaurants status from the Green Restaurant Association (GRA) last month, according to Campus Dining.
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Campus Dining surveying students on dining options with new HappyorNot Machine
In the middle of October, Campus Dining implemented the HappyorNot Machine in the Vista Grande Dining Hall to get feedback from students about their dining experiences. With a set of emoticon faces ranging from happy to sad, each participant who chose to do the survey could choose a face and provide written feedback.
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Vista Grande Express promotes sustainability through reusable containers
Vista Grande Express, a restaurant in the Vista Grande dining complex, has begun using reusable containers as of Oct. 20, sparing over 500,000 single-use containers from the waste stream each year, according to Campus Dining. “The more times the container is reused, the more sustainable it becomes,” Campus Dining wrote on their website. “The container […]
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“Eating just to be alive”: Cal Poly students share meal situations in isolation
For students isolated in off-campus hotel rooms, it costs $30 a day to eat. Returning to on-campus from winter break resulted in a sudden omicron spike among Cal Poly students, leading to the administration moving students who tested positive to off-campus hotel rooms for isolation. To add to the list of struggles of being isolated […]
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Students with dietary restrictions ‘struggling to get a good meal’ at Cal Poly Dining
Cal Poly students with dietary restrictions have expressed dissatisfaction with the limited dining hall options, resulting in students compromising healthy meals to attend class and others facing food insecurity. Biochemistry junior Maile Gardner follows a vegan diet and has found that the lack of options has made it difficult to find consistent meals. “I feel […]