Feeding the Bees
SCAD Atlanta has recently revamped the food options available to students, as of 2019 fall quarter.
SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) now has a food truck and new cafés.
The taco truck is called Buzz Bites and serves students tacos, burritos, and bowls. If not a SCAD student two tacos cost four dollars whereas a burrito will cost seven dollars. A freshman, Matthew Adin, said that the Buzz Bites is his favorite place to eat at SCAD because it reminds him of home. The taco truck sits outside Forty, the newest dormitory at SCAD, to provide students a quick and fulfilling meal. It opens at noon and closes after midnight.
The new café at Forty where it stays open until 2 a.m. This location, called Sketch, serves coffee drinks to smoothies. They also provide hot meals, sandwiches, snacks, and even body soap. Sketch serves as a small convenient store for SCAD students that live in Forty. The hot entrée provided changes every day, which has been received well by students for it is a quick way to get food. The price of the entrée varies from five dollars to six. One hot food option that does stay is a quinoa bowl. Sketch offers a build your own quinoa bowl with different toppings and dressings.
Even the Hub has gone under changes. In the past the Hub was questionable. Jasper Lawrence, a junior, is a vegetarian and says, “In the past, they had issues mislabeling food as vegetarian or vegan when it wasn’t. There was definitely (and still might be) some cross-contamination, which doesn’t bother me as much, but it might be a concern for others. I would watch them cook bean burgers on the same stove as the meat burgers.”
The new rules pushed by the Hub manager have a stricter policy in comparison to the last quarter. The policy is that students and guests must pay before entering to receive food. This mirrors the same rules that management has in Savannah; the Atlanta campus is slowly morphing into its mother campus as said by SCAD students, like Alex Otway.
David Vega, a freshman at SCAD, states that the food is good and that they “switch it up” which keeps him coming back. Though there has been some backlash to the “New Hub”. Another student, who wanted to remain nameless, says that “it sucks” because now you can’t get a cup of water without having to pay a ridiculous fee. He goes on to say that “In the past, each item was priced individually so that you could control how much you spent considering we pay so much for the school already”.
If not a SCAD student to eat in the Hub breakfast is nine dollars, lunch/brunch is 12 dollars, and dinner is 15 dollars. All prices are a flat rate, once you have entered it is all you can eat.
