The vending machines will face some competition now that students can buy chocolate bars with their food cards. The Lower Caf has yielded to students’ suggestions that it serve ice cream and chocolate to curb those late-night munchies. A freezer stocked with Cyclones, Raspberry fruit bars, Fudgcicles, and the infamous Ben and Jerry’s is squeezed behind the register.

Because the cafeteria in the Reimer Student Centre has refused to sell chocolate bars, their presence in the LC is a real treat. Selection has been stingy with only a few varieties to choose from–only Kit Kat, Snickers, Aero and Twix –but the choices may increase with popularity.

The price of ice cream is the same as in the cafeteria. The chocolate bars, at $1.25 each, cost the same in the vending machines, which is 16-25 cents more than the chocolate bars in the bookstore.
Not everyone is enthused with the LC’s new addition.

“Although ice cream is nice for a treat once in a while, it would be really nice to see more fruit and vegetables in the LC because they provide energy for studying, whereas greasy, fatty foods make you more lethargic,” said Katie Masse.