{"id":1200,"date":"2012-09-13T18:11:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T18:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2012-09-13T18:11:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T18:11:12","slug":"jsu-students-express-delight-and-concern-over-new-dining-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/2012\/09\/13\/jsu-students-express-delight-and-concern-over-new-dining-services\/","title":{"rendered":"JSU students express delight and concern over new dining services"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1201\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1201\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash2025\/files\/2012\/09\/DSC_1346.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1201\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash2025\/files\/2012\/09\/DSC_1346-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">JSU students wait for cook to fill stir fry orders.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Special to the Flash<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Nekeisha Walker Contributed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Heritage Dining Hall at Jackson State University has revamped its services to provide students with a relaxing environment, more variety and more nutritious choices.<\/p>\n<p>ARAMARK provides these services to JSU.\u00a0 The company, according to its website, is a $13 billion world leader in professional services, headquartered in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Students who have been partaking in these new services said they enjoy the food.<\/p>\n<p>Amber Stokes, a freshman biology pre-med major from Jackson, Miss. said, \u201cI enjoy the food and would choose the cafeteria over fast food any day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore Lorenzo Newell from Sallis, Miss. said, \u201cThe new and improved cafeteria is a lot better than the old cafeteria because it includes more variety of food selection such as vegetables, stir fry, burgers, and pizza. The quality of the food has also improved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many students stated that in addition to providing great tasting food, the Heritage also provides a laid back, comfortable atmosphere with the new designs incorporated over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe atmosphere has totally changed for the better and the variety of food now helps students with their dietary needs,\u201d said Trerica Roberson, a senior, art major from Louin, Miss.<\/p>\n<p>Many students are concerned with the fact that the traffic is so heavy during lunch hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the food got better, the traffic got worse,\u201d said Mark Braboy, a senior English major from Chicago, Ill.\u00a0 The stir-fry and pasta lines are extremely long and on chicken and fish days, the lines are crazy!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1202\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1202\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash2025\/files\/2012\/09\/DSC_1377.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1202\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash2025\/files\/2012\/09\/DSC_1377-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">JSU students getting lunch at the Heritage dining facility.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special to the Flash Nekeisha Walker Contributed The Heritage Dining Hall at Jackson State University has revamped its services to provide students with a relaxing environment, more variety and more nutritious choices. ARAMARK provides these services to JSU.\u00a0 The company, according to its website, is a $13 billion world leader in professional services, headquartered in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-campus-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}