DC Up­dates for the Se­mes­ter

Carla Mon­taruli  

Staff writer  

Mishawaka- This year the Din­ing Com­mon in­tro­duced some changes, go­ing tray­less and in­tro­duc­ing a new line, ‘Sim­ple 3’. All on-cam­pus Bethel stu­dents are re­quired to fol­low a food plan. Spe­cial di­ets can be ac­com­mo­dated, and di­etary ad­vice can be ob­tained by ap­point­ment. There are two op­tions that stu­dents have to eat on cam­pus: the DC, which is avail­able seven days a week and fea­tures un­lim­ited food sta­tions, and Suf­fi­cient Grounds, which serves hot and cold bev­er­ages as well as a va­ri­ety of food op­tions dur­ing the week. 

Bethel de­cided to con­vert the din­ing to tray­less to re­duce their car­bon foot­print. A big im­prove­ment of this year in DC is the menu va­ri­ety brought with the new pro­gram ‘Sim­ply 3’. This pro­vides an al­ler­gen-free sta­tion that fo­cuses on dishes with­out milk, nuts, or gluten, avoid­ing the three main items that stu­dents at­tempt to avoid the most. Its pur­pose is to give stu­dents safe meals as well as im­proved va­ri­ety.  

Stu­dents seem to like this new op­tions and ap­pre­ci­ate the changes. 

“As some­body with an al­lergy to nuts, dairy, and gluten, eat­ing in the DC used to be re­ally dif­fi­cult. It was stress­ful try­ing to find a ful­fill­ing meal that would­n’t hurt my stom­ach,” said Lind­sey La­Grou, Bethel sopho­more. “With the Sim­ply 3 line, I can count on some­thing safe and dif­fer­ent every day.“ 

They con­sider this fea­ture cru­cial for the hap­pi­ness of the stu­dents, who dine on cam­pus many times every day dur­ing the aca­d­e­mic year. Stu­dents with food al­ler­gies can dis­cover a range of safe and crave-wor­thy hot meal op­tions through this pro­gram. They strive to pro­vide a won­der­ful va­ri­ety of eat­ing al­ter­na­tives that cater to all stu­dents' di­etary de­mands.  

Stu­dents can check how many meal swipes they have left for the week and the daily menu on the Bethel Uni­ver­sity app.