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= Pritchard Dining Hall =

Pritchard Dining Hall, located in Nechako Residence of the University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus, is a buffet-style dining hall made for students, staff and visitors with seating for close to 450 guests. The Dining hall was built alongside the Nechako Residence building and opened in September 2021.

According to the official website, Pritchard features an “all-you-care-to-eat dining experience” which means that guests can eat as much as they want. The daily menu can be found in the mobile app or the official Pritchard website. All the stations offer plant-based and gluten-free options too but students have reported that these options are mostly not good enough. In the dining hall, there are multiple self-serving stations that offer different kinds of food.

Plantopia
Plantopia offers a minimally processed and seasonal diet made of vegetables and grains. The menu changes daily.

Salad Bar
This station contains multiple types of vegetables which can be used to make customized salads along with fruits, berries, yoghurt and soup. The menu stays the same every day except for the soups.

Pizza and pasta
This station offers pizza and pasta featuring house-made dough. This station has plant-based and made-without-gluten options available. The menu changes daily.

Chef’s Table
This station has meals featuring plant-based and non-plant-based options. The menu changes daily.

Grill House
This station serves foods such as grilled cheese, quesadillas, burgers, fries and more. The menu changes daily except for fries.

Nourish
This station offers a bowl based on a plant-based diet with an option between omelets or tofu. The menu changes daily and is open only till the late afternoon and is not open on Sundays.

Drinks
There are three stations for drinks. Overall, the drinks contain different types of juices, milk, tea and more.

Sweet spot
This station offers desserts, squares, cookies, bread, cereals and more.

Pricing
To access the dining hall, there are three meal plan options that students have access to:


 * 1) The All Access Meal Plan is mandatory for students living in traditional residences such as Nechako, Purcell, Kalamalka, Valhalla, Cassiar, Nicola, Skeena and Similkameen Place. They are offered unlimited access to the dining hall within the hours that it is open (7 am to 11 pm) and it is all you can eat. The students are also offered flex dollars to use on UBCO campus food locations and select restaurants in the Kelowna Area. It is available from September through April and costs $5,858 Canadian Dollars for the Year. The students are entitled to $300.56 dollars throughout the year, with $149 becoming available to them in September and the other $150 becoming available to them in January.
 * 2) The optional Meal plan is not mandatory and is reserved for students living off-campus or on-campus in suite-style buildings. They are also offered unlimited access to the dining without restrictions of any kind and it is also all-you-can-eat within the hours of 7 am to 11 pm. The cost is $5,558 and it is available from September through to April. However, the students on this meal plan do not have access to flex dollars.
 * 3) There is also a swipe plan available to students, which is for students living off-campus or on campus in suite and studio-style rooms. It is also available from September to April and students can purchase a set number of meals i.e 75 meals, 50 meals or 25 meals that they can use at any time during the dining hall’s open hours. Each time a student enters the dining hall, a meal is deducted and they can be topped up at any time during the semester. For 75 meals, the cost is $924.38, for 50 meals it is $652.50 and for 35 meals it is $344.38.

Students who do not want to purchase a plan but want to eat in the dining hall can also walk into Pritchard at any time during its opening hours as it offers walk-in rates. These are $10.50 for breakfast, $14.50 for lunch and $18.50 for dinner and students can pay with cash, credit or debit.

Critical Reception
The new dining hall on the UBCO campus has received a lot of criticism regarding its serving times, the options that it offers, its portions and the waste that it creates with the massive amounts of food that they cook every day. Multiple students on the campus have complained about the dining hall’s serving times, citing that it does not accommodate people with morning classes or night classes because whilst it is open until 11:30 PM, it stops serving hot, cooked food at 8:30 PM, which is when most classes and labs are ending. Therefore, these individuals are restricted to cold food (such as salad, boiled eggs etc.), bread and Juice. Individuals are also unhappy with the options offered as there are not many vegetarian, gluten-free and vegan options for students that are restricted to these diets. The food is also not labelled extensively, leaving students unsure as to which options are gluten-friendly, vegan e.t.c Furthermore, the portion sizes are also very small in efforts to reduce waste which leaves many students hungry despite the “all you can eat '' serving style. Lastly, many students cite that the dining hall wastes massive amounts of food; This has resulted in multiple movements on the UBCO campus calling for intervention in this problem.