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Start of Year = Start of Rising Prices

It's a phenomenon almost as annoying as having to re-enter your SSOL password when you leave it alone for more than 3 minutes: rising prices at campus eateries.

So far, Bwog tipsters and staff have seen price hikes at many campus eateries. Offenders include Ferris Booth, which, in addition to replacing the popular stir fry station with a taco bar, has raised prices at several of their other stations.

At $7, Ferris and 212 sushi, for example, will now set you back more than many supermarkets in the area (M2M sells it for about $4). Cafe 212 has also raised its prices on sandwiches, and they've also stopped selling sunflower seeds, which Bwog considers a travesty.

Finally, Butler's Blue Java has, as our tipster put it, "coffee now priced at Starbucks levels, pastries even higher." If you've heard of other places, on-campus or off-campus, raising (or lowering!) their prices, let us know at bwgossip@columbia.edu or in the comments.


Posted by ...: #1 · reply · track
September 4, 2008 at 7:47 PM
what the fuck?!

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Posted by you haven't heard???: #2 (in reply to #1) · reply · track
September 4, 2008 at 8:00 PM (from campus)
columbia's putting a cap on our number of clicks now.
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September 4, 2008 at 8:15 PM
i guess clicks don't come cheap in these tough times.

i was checking it about twice an hour, i'm surprised i kicked it into adderall-overdose/perl-script defense mode.

Posted by random: #4 · reply · track
September 4, 2008 at 9:45 PM (from campus)
Do people still pay for the sh!t food at Columbia? Free 212 sandwiches is the way to go...
Posted by well: #5 · reply · track
September 4, 2008 at 10:13 PM (from campus)
hipsters beware: cigarettes are now $10 a pack :(
Posted by why: #6 · reply · track
September 4, 2008 at 10:25 PM (from campus)
are cigarettes for hipsters?

calm down

but fuck, the vending machines all over campus are now at least $.20 higher for every item. those bastards.
Posted by Riven: #7 · reply · track
September 4, 2008 at 10:41 PM (from campus)
Ferris has boosted the pasta with protein from 7,50 to 7,95 after having raised it last year from 6,95... come on, its just a handful of pasta with even less chicken....
Posted by And: #8 · reply · track
September 4, 2008 at 10:52 PM
The salads at 212 are now $7.50, which is the same as what Milano's charges.
Posted by overhead...: #9 (in reply to #7) · reply · track
September 4, 2008 at 11:52 PM
Interesting given that it must cost them only a few cents to prepare.
Posted by SEAS: #10 · reply · track
September 5, 2008 at 12:08 AM (from campus)
someone needs to figure out where the money that students taking gateway lab classes goes.

my freshman year it was $125. it is now $275. someone said that the new computers came from an endowment. so where does all of the 250 students x 275$/semester go?
Posted by Answer:: #11 · reply · track
September 5, 2008 at 12:25 AM
To fund a secret nuclear proliferation program in the bowels of the sub-basement under the auspices of "peaceful" nuclear research.
Posted by jack: #12 (in reply to #10) · reply · track
September 5, 2008 at 12:48 AM (from campus)
it goes to help resand Jack McGourty's zen garden.

fuck if i know. they're not going to release a statistic like that.
Posted by This is bullshit: #13 · reply · track
September 5, 2008 at 1:18 AM (from campus)
A SMALL soup, Snapple, and Roll sets you back at least $8 in Carleton. Really? REALLY?
Posted by Isn't there...: #14 · reply · track
September 5, 2008 at 1:22 AM
...something called free-market competition (economy majors, help me out here)?

If a "A SMALL soup, Snapple, and Roll" from Carleton sets you back $8, and a shitty "prepared" dish from Ferris is now basically that much, um, get off your asses and CROSS THE STREET.

Think of it as your way of sticking it to the man (after you've just given him $40,000+, that is)...
Posted by Well: #15 · reply · track
September 5, 2008 at 1:22 AM
Soup, pasta, a burger, and some damn fine eggplant is still only 6 bucks at the JTS cafeteria
Posted by if a : #16 · reply · track
September 5, 2008 at 1:43 AM (from campus)
sandwich costs $6.75 at 212 and 6.75 at milano why would anybody ever go to 212? And did they get rid of all the asian food, even the fried rice?
Posted by Sad: #17 · reply · track
September 5, 2008 at 12:40 PM
Really, if you hold onto that card they give you, the salads and sandwiches at Milano are a steal. One of those salads is easily two meals.
Posted by ...: #18 · reply · track
September 5, 2008 at 8:34 PM (from campus)
columbia employees get health insurance, other food service people don't. group health insurance costs have been rising in the double digits for years.
Posted by sad: #19 · reply · track
September 5, 2008 at 10:58 PM (from campus)
roti roll raised their prices by about 50 cents a roll.
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