[362] in Vegetarian_Support_Group
Re: ideas for cafe.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rebecca@MIT.EDU)
Mon Feb 13 11:26:29 1995
From: rebecca@MIT.EDU
To: vsg@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Feb 1995 14:46:50 EST."
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 11:24:04 EST
Well, i think the dining at Walker & Lobdell both leave a lot to be
desired, and have a great deal of room for improvement. Several
concrete suggestions:
1- Lobdell does now have on its menu "vegetarian meatballs" I have had
these a couple of times, and they were quite good. Unfortunately,
almost every time i go there to order them they are out of them. It
is ridiculous, they have never just been out of stock of
dead-cow-balls, someone is just not ordering enough of the veggie
ones, perhaps assuming that very few people will want them, and then
not being convinced by the repeated evidence that they keep selling
out of them very quickly. I think we should all try ordering them,
asking when they will be in again if they say they are out of stock,
etc. And ask of the managment that they keep them in stock, as they do
everything else.
2- among the "entrees" they usually have a beef thing, a chicken thing
and a fish thing. We should ask for a policy of always having a
vegetarian thing among the entrees.
3 - the veggie chilli is some of the worst I have ever tasted. This is
pathetic. Also, it is generally the only veggie option, and is the
same day after day. How about a little creativity. Are they interested
in receiving recipes?
4- The pizza. Someone said that veggie pizza is often one of the only
things available. I would like to point out that Walker doesn't even
carry the veggie pizza most days. (of course, there remains the
problem of those of us who want to avoid excessive dairy
consumption...). Anyway, I had noticed that Walked only had vegetable
pizza once in a blue moon. Most of the time, they had three different
options for pizzas with topings, and *all three* options have some
form of pork product on them. This is ludicrous, even from only a
marketing standpoint. So, one day I asked why they only had vegetable
pizzas sometimes, and the guy told me that they only carry the
vegetable pizza on FRIDAYS because that is their current policy.
Well, I find this unlikely to be a coincidence, that the only day on
which they carry pizzas with non-pig toppings are on the day on which
certain Christian denominations have a tradition of not eating meat.
This seems to be religious preference being given to one group. Why
don't they just have a vegetable pizza every day, for those of us who
avoid pork all the time, rather than just on fridays? (Also, I have
noticed, on the days on which they carry only 3 kinds of pig pizza,
they almost never sell them all, they are all almost identical, and
inevitably at least one of the 3 meat pizza types sits around unsold,
and they never seem to have a problem selling the vegetable ones...)
5 - Asian foods. YES YES YES, I second that motion. You would think it
would be obvious from teh pattern of business at the food trucks and
at Central Sq. restaurants that MIT students are big fans of chinese
food. They should have a chinese and/or asian food in general booth in
lobdell. Walker too would be nice.
-Rebecca
