When considering two sides of this problem, we conclude that this problem can be observed in two ways.
The first way to look at the problem concerns people. The solution to the limited dining hall hours is to find the reason that made this phenomenon happen. From the students’ perspective, some don’t have a very convenient schedule. An example would be like having the class from 10 to 12 then 12 to 2. For these people, they cannot have a lunch if the dinning hall closed before 12. They need to have lunch and it’s not necessary for those students to pay money for their lunch outside the campus every day. For the dining hall’s side, the workers also need to take a rest after several hours work and they also have their families, so they also need to go back home around 7 or 8 pm and stay with their family after one day’s heavy work. So the solution of this problem should be lasting longer for the lunch and dinnertime and hiring more dining hall workers that can work during the longer schedule. For example, Monday and Wednesday, Worker A can work from 7 am to 6 pm, and Worker B can work from 9 am to 8 pm. Tuesday and Thursday, they can change the schedule. However, it should be considered that the dinning hall company wouldn’t want to hire so many workers, which will increase their cost and decrease their profit.
For the commerce part, I think if the company hired more workers, they absolutely will increase their cost. But if they can find a way to add to their revenue, the profit will not be changed anymore. Don’t forget that there are three meal plans to choose from. One of them is the gold meal plan allows meals unlimited. The cost of the gold plan is 1,315 dollars per quarter, which is the most profitable one. In order to attract more students to choose this meal plan, the longer dining time is the best way. Since the dinning time is so short, even the students who chose the gold plan can only have the meals 3 times every day. There is no big difference between the gold plan and the other meal plans with restrictions. So there are no reasons for them to pay more money but have basically the same result as others. But if dining hall has the longer mealtime, everything will change. More students will choose the unlimited meal plan, because they can eat anytime they want. With longer hours, people can get what they want anytime, which seems much better than others who chose the second and the third plans.
There is a balance for the company between money and people. Although profit for a general company is very important, the student’s health should also be very important for a company who works for the schools.
I couldn’t agree more. This is a very important to me because I am one of those people who have a weird schedule and a lot of the times that the cafeteria is serving food do not match up with the times that I can eat. I thought that the ideas you have to fix the issue were great. It sounded like you put a lot of thought into the solution, and they were very logical. I liked the research you did into the prices of the meal plans we are all forced to pay for. I hadn’t realized how much money was I was spending on food every semester. Defiantly great ethos. The topic was really appealing to me as a reader because I am directly affected by the early closing of the cafeteria. Just last night I had to spend my last couple dollars of my meal plan cash so I could eat dinner because I didn’t get out of film until 7:10. By the time I got to the dining hall it would have been closed. Your solution would have allowed me to use a swipe to pay for my dinner, which is worth twelve dollars, instead of spending meal play cash. The only issue I had with your post was the opening. You didn’t explain what the problem was and readers get confused when starting off the paper. I didn’t understand what the issue was that had two sides. I had to figure it out by reading the rest. It would have made it easier to understand if you could mention that the problem being addressed is the dining hall closing to early.
ReplyDeleteFirst, I like how you were able to address both sides of the dining hall hours issue. Students want longer dining hall hours, but Sodexo doesn't want to loose money by hiring more workers, which is very logical. You provide examples of how Sodexo could stagger it's worker's hours by, for example, having one worker work from 7am to 6pm and have another work from 9am to 8pm. While I think it is a good idea to stagger the worker's hours, the solution you provided would mean that each worker would be working 11 hours a day which is far too much. This would mean that Sodexo would definitely have to hire more workers to cover the extra hours. However, I agree with your idea that if dining hall hours were increased, more students would be likely to choose the “gold plan”. I myself am on the gold plan this quarter but am thinking of switching to either the crimson or copper plans due to my schedule next quarter which doesn't coincide with the current dining hall hours. At the end of your post you state that, “There is a balance for the company between money and people. Although profit for a general company is very important, the student’s health should also be very important for a company who works for the schools.” This appeals to the pathos of Sodexo by showing that yes, profits are important, but student's health should be even more important.
ReplyDeleteWhat I did in my argument is to give the conclusion about the other 2 arguments wrote by my team members and to find a logical solution based on both student’s side and Sodexho’s side. I agree with the reader Jcugini’s comment that “It would have made it easier to understand if you could mention that the problem being addressed is the dining hall closing to early.” But the reason I didn’t mention this part is that it has already been done in the other two parts. Not like other group’s work that contains 3 arguments in one article, my group work is in the way that each member did one part of the same argument, which will constitute the integrate article in several sides of consideration. I like the last paragraph I wrote at the end “There is a balance for the company between money and people. Although profit for a general company is very important, the student’s health should also be very important for a company who works for the schools.”, which will guide readers into a more spiritual consideration instead of the logical but material one wrote at the most part of my article.
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