The Downunder Cafe

College buffet so I guess you can’t expect much but honestly nothing tastes good. We only are here cause it was the only thing open.

Some days it’s good, some days it’s really bad
Most of the time I have no idea what I’m eating here, but this is expected cause most workers here are students that just doesn’t care

I eat here almost every day because I have a meal plan here. If you live in the dorms, you have to have a meal plan, which sucks. It a buffet style cafeteria, but it is still not worth the price, no matter what meal plan you have.
So the Downunder Café, or the ‘DC’ opens at 7:30 and at that time they begin serving the ‘Continental Breakfast.’ Usually they serve fruit, waffles, toast, bagels, coffee, juice, and a couple other things. But the DC should open earlier than 7:30 for those of us who have class at 8am!!! It’s really inconvenient and unhealthy to not have time to grab breakfast before class. The food they serve at this time really isn’t good. It’s nice to have a selection of juices to choose from, but there is seriously something wrong with every single one of the juice dispensers; the juice is always either too watery or too concentrated. The coffee is the worst coffee I’ve had as well! I wish they had different flavored creams to choose from, because I like flavored cream in my coffee!
The ‘Regular Breakfast’ is served from 8:30 — 10:45. Usually they have scrambled eggs, some type of sausage or bacon, and some type of hash brown or country potato dish ready to serve, which is nice. But again, none of it is very tasty! There is an omelette bar where you can order a custom omelette, but if you want an egg-​white omelette, you can count on your eggs whites coming from a carton! Also, all of the omelettes that I’ve ever ordered were RUBBERY and BLAND! BLEGH! I wish they used more spices in all of their food. I realize that some kids have food allergies though, so maybe that’s why they make food like that.
‘Lunch’ is served from 10:45am — 2:30pm. They usually open up the sandwich bar, soup and salad bar, pizza bar, and stir fry station for this. They serve different things every day for lunch. I guess the lunch is semi-​satisfying.
There is also a ‘Late Lunch’ between 2:30 and 5:00. I usually am only able to eat lunch during this time, which is unfortunate because they really limit what they serve during this time. For lunch meat, they have roast beef and a couple other mystery meats, which are labeled ‘turkey,’ ‘pastrami,’ and ‘salami.’ I say mystery meat because well, they taste so terribly that I’m not sure their labels represent what they really are.
Dinner starts at 5:00 and runs til 8:30. They serve something different every night, but again it’s never very good. Tonight the main entrée was honey glazed ham, which was acceptable. Everything on the buffet is usually cold, even though its sitting under a light.
I could go on and on about the DC. Needless to say, I’m glad ill be done eating at this place as soon as I move out of the dorms at the end of the semester.