Hassayampa Dining Hall

Located underneath the CLAS building is the Hassayampa Dining Hall.  The dining hall is “All-You-Care- To-Eat” within certain hours.  The hours of dining hall are “Monday through Thursday from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.  Fridays are from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.  Saturday hours are from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Finally Sunday’s hours are from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.” ("Arizona State University: Sun Devil Dining ").  However these hours will change if there is a holiday, a break, or other special event. With the dining hall, there are different meal plans. There are “unlimited meals with 250 M&G dollars, 14 meals a week with 375 M&G dollars, 180 meal per semester plus 375 M&G dollars, 8 meals per week with 350 M&G dollars, or 135 meals per semester” ("Resident Meal Plans at ASU Tempe Campus").  M&G dollars stands for Maroon and Gold dollars, in which can be used to buy food outside of the dining hall. For example, most students use M&G dollars at Memorial Union because this is where Starbucks, Burger King, Papa Johns, Jamba Juice and more fast restaurants are located. Students also use M&G dollars at the P.O.D market, a convenience store.  Also to mention, depending on the meal plan some contain a limited number of guest passes that can be used to treat someone to breakfast, lunch and dinner. With the in dining hall, they are several stations: sandwich bar, salad bar, pizza, soups, vegetarian station, and “home plate”. “Home plate” is where the home style food is made.  Also it varies depending on the time of day.  The employees at Hassayampa are very friendly. They talk to you, ask about your day and have great communication skills. Also if there is problem they will fix it immediately. On certain days in the dining hall there are random themes.  For example, Mondays are known as meatless Mondays.  The goal of meatless Mondays is to display to freshman about weight gain and to be aware of freshman fifteen. Plus it shows alternative healthy style of eating.  Other themes include 60’s nights and pajama party.  The Hassayampa dining hall has great amount of social interaction because it a way of gathering around the table to eat but also talk to people and make new friends.