Meal Boom

Salient Reporter

If you thought the Dining Room was crowded during last term, you were right.

In fact, as managing secretary Ian Boyd admitted to Salient, things are reaching bursting point.

Lunch sales were up 16 per cent on last year's figures, and dinner sales rose 30 per cent as well.

Nor do those figures count in the Sandwich Lunch Bar, where on an average lunch day 190 people dropped in to buy something.

Some days, lunch sales broke the 1000 mark—the first time this has happened in the Union's history.

Even on average days, the figure hung around 750. And those morning tea and afternoon tea types seem regular too—an average day sees 570 of them.