Comments on: One Last Chance to Rub Panda Express Out http://clog.dailycal.org/2009/04/13/one-last-chance-to-rub-panda-express-out/ A Cal blog brought to you by The Daily Californian Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:50:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Dumb and Dumber http://clog.dailycal.org/2009/04/13/one-last-chance-to-rub-panda-express-out/#comment-65490 Dumb and Dumber Thu, 07 May 2009 07:27:43 +0000 http://clog.dailycal.org/?p=9810#comment-65490 "their [Panda's] orange chicken is downright delicious." Orange Chicken Rocks! :) “their [Panda's] orange chicken is downright delicious.”

Orange Chicken Rocks! :)

]]> By: Joseph http://clog.dailycal.org/2009/04/13/one-last-chance-to-rub-panda-express-out/#comment-61645 Joseph Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:43:59 +0000 http://clog.dailycal.org/?p=9810#comment-61645 Yaman: Hi, I'm one of the 2 students who conducted the survey that you mentioned in a previous comment. I just wanted to point out that the survey wasn't intended to apply to the Panda issue; it was strictly about the Bear's Lair. Granted, it's hard not to extrapolate from the survey results to an inference about student attitudes toward Panda, but that wasn't our goal. I just wanted to make that clear, because Gregg, who presented the survey results at the SOB meeting, was very concerned about people misrepresenting the results (although he is definitely in the anti-Panda crowd). Anyway, on a different note, I completely agree with your concerns about the SOB's procedures regarding Panda. And Jim Fung: Yay! I too am exhilarated by the Board's decision not to remove the current Bear's Lair businesses, but to hold them to higher enviro standards. I hope that the survey was one of the factors in their decision. Yaman: Hi, I’m one of the 2 students who conducted the survey that you mentioned in a previous comment. I just wanted to point out that the survey wasn’t intended to apply to the Panda issue; it was strictly about the Bear’s Lair. Granted, it’s hard not to extrapolate from the survey results to an inference about student attitudes toward Panda, but that wasn’t our goal. I just wanted to make that clear, because Gregg, who presented the survey results at the SOB meeting, was very concerned about people misrepresenting the results (although he is definitely in the anti-Panda crowd).

Anyway, on a different note, I completely agree with your concerns about the SOB’s procedures regarding Panda.

And Jim Fung: Yay! I too am exhilarated by the Board’s decision not to remove the current Bear’s Lair businesses, but to hold them to higher enviro standards. I hope that the survey was one of the factors in their decision.

]]> By: Jim Fung http://clog.dailycal.org/2009/04/13/one-last-chance-to-rub-panda-express-out/#comment-61639 Jim Fung Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:06:16 +0000 http://clog.dailycal.org/?p=9810#comment-61639 That's great! I found the article. Thanks, Yaman. That’s great! I found the article. Thanks, Yaman.

]]> By: yaman http://clog.dailycal.org/2009/04/13/one-last-chance-to-rub-panda-express-out/#comment-61536 yaman Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:59:34 +0000 http://clog.dailycal.org/?p=9810#comment-61536 Jim, I don't know, but apparently the DC says today that they will draft new contracts for them. If they agree to some criteria, they will retain their space, but if not, the proposal process will be re-opened. Jim, I don’t know, but apparently the DC says today that they will draft new contracts for them. If they agree to some criteria, they will retain their space, but if not, the proposal process will be re-opened.

]]> By: Jim Fung http://clog.dailycal.org/2009/04/13/one-last-chance-to-rub-panda-express-out/#comment-61501 Jim Fung Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:35:41 +0000 http://clog.dailycal.org/?p=9810#comment-61501 Yaman, do you know if there were any decisions made at the Store Operations Board meeting about the vendors in the Bear's Lair food court and whether or not the RFP was finalized to bid out their spaces? There was nothing in the Daily Cal about it. I really hope the vendors will be able to stay. Yaman, do you know if there were any decisions made at the Store Operations Board meeting about the vendors in the Bear’s Lair food court and whether or not the RFP was finalized to bid out their spaces? There was nothing in the Daily Cal about it. I really hope the vendors will be able to stay.

]]> By: yaman http://clog.dailycal.org/2009/04/13/one-last-chance-to-rub-panda-express-out/#comment-61454 yaman Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:07:11 +0000 http://clog.dailycal.org/?p=9810#comment-61454 I didn't mean petition, I meant survey, my bad. I didn’t mean petition, I meant survey, my bad.

]]> By: yaman http://clog.dailycal.org/2009/04/13/one-last-chance-to-rub-panda-express-out/#comment-61453 yaman Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:06:51 +0000 http://clog.dailycal.org/?p=9810#comment-61453 adfadsf, I wasn't really making an argument about what most students care about (though another student presented a petition suggesting that you're wrong about most studetns), I was just stating what the speakers at the meeting had uncovered. In fact, the Auxiliary director and members of SOB have already said that what most students want is not binding on them since they can independently exercise their authority according to the rules. The power of what the student speakers at the SOB meeting said was that it showed that the SOB was in fact not following the rules, or, at the very best, was making an active effort to elude them through loopholes and the like, violating the spirit of the rules. adfadsf, I wasn’t really making an argument about what most students care about (though another student presented a petition suggesting that you’re wrong about most studetns), I was just stating what the speakers at the meeting had uncovered. In fact, the Auxiliary director and members of SOB have already said that what most students want is not binding on them since they can independently exercise their authority according to the rules. The power of what the student speakers at the SOB meeting said was that it showed that the SOB was in fact not following the rules, or, at the very best, was making an active effort to elude them through loopholes and the like, violating the spirit of the rules.

]]> By: mmathers http://clog.dailycal.org/2009/04/13/one-last-chance-to-rub-panda-express-out/#comment-61386 mmathers Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:07:55 +0000 http://clog.dailycal.org/?p=9810#comment-61386 If you don't like Panda Express (I don't), VOTE WITH YOUR DOLLARS and shop somewhere else. They will go out of business just like any other enterprise. Of course, that's not the Cal way. Let's protest instead! That sign should have read: "Please No Panda Express or My Muffin Top Will Grow Bigger" If you don’t like Panda Express (I don’t), VOTE WITH YOUR DOLLARS and shop somewhere else. They will go out of business just like any other enterprise.

Of course, that’s not the Cal way. Let’s protest instead!

That sign should have read: “Please No Panda Express or My Muffin Top Will Grow Bigger”

]]> By: adfadsf http://clog.dailycal.org/2009/04/13/one-last-chance-to-rub-panda-express-out/#comment-61301 adfadsf Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:28:19 +0000 http://clog.dailycal.org/?p=9810#comment-61301 yaman: i don't think most students really care about public requests for proposals (or if it's done fairly), or that panda would have cheaper rent than other businesses (or whatever it was that was the dispute). i think most students just care about whether or not there is a yummy, delicious, familiar place to eat where they can spend their money for lunch or a snack (even if it is unhealthy). i for one would appreciate a fast food chain in lower sproul, if mainly because i know what type of food they serve, that it is consistently delicious (an opinion, mind you), cheap, and full of the greasy flavorful stuff that the other restaurants in lower sproul are too afraid to serve (upkeeping with the "berkeley image"). someone said somewhere that the contract with panda may have included that no other asian restaurants exist on campus, and this is the only thing that alarms me about the whole panda issue (food, delicious food, of all kinds: no one should put a limit on that). <3 food. yaman: i don’t think most students really care about public requests for proposals (or if it’s done fairly), or that panda would have cheaper rent than other businesses (or whatever it was that was the dispute). i think most students just care about whether or not there is a yummy, delicious, familiar place to eat where they can spend their money for lunch or a snack (even if it is unhealthy).

i for one would appreciate a fast food chain in lower sproul, if mainly because i know what type of food they serve, that it is consistently delicious (an opinion, mind you), cheap, and full of the greasy flavorful stuff that the other restaurants in lower sproul are too afraid to serve (upkeeping with the “berkeley image”).

someone said somewhere that the contract with panda may have included that no other asian restaurants exist on campus, and this is the only thing that alarms me about the whole panda issue (food, delicious food, of all kinds: no one should put a limit on that). <3 food.

]]> By: Mark http://clog.dailycal.org/2009/04/13/one-last-chance-to-rub-panda-express-out/#comment-61245 Mark Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:30:35 +0000 http://clog.dailycal.org/?p=9810#comment-61245 Panda Meat! For the love of god! At least serve Chicken! Panda Meat! For the love of god! At least serve Chicken!

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