Food pricing on campus is overpriced. It's unfair and unreasonable to expect students to pay these high prices for meal deals and sandwiches to feed themselves, a basic necessity for students to learn. Something like that should not be taken advantage of, just because all the other nearest food outlets are a 20-minute walk away doesn't mean they are justified in extorting students who are already struggling financially as is. As well as students, it's completely unrealistic to get staff to pay these prices every day for their work lunches, it would be a beneficial move for both students and staff across campus.
Other universities such as Demonfort University are in the city centre and therefore have to compete with local pricing for food outlets such as Sainsbury Local and Tesco Express, making their on-campus food outlets much lower than those on Univerity of Leicester grounds, and much more accessible and realistic for students and staff alike. Just because UoL is positioned a little further away from the centre doesn't give these independent food providers the right to overcharge people for a coffee and make everyone pay premium pricing for crisps.
With enough support, I will carry this through to the academic council and through Leicester 100 to make things more accessible and affordable to everyone, so those teaching and learning don't have to scrape money together to make sure they can afford lunch if they forget to make it that morning or don't have anything in to eat. Stop expecting students or staff that have a long day ahead to pay unrealistic pricing for food, they may be here from 9 am to 6 pm with nothing, forcing them to pay premium pricing for something other students from the area would pay half of that for is unfair for all those subject to it. Our campus is so progressive already, it's time the pricing caught up with the rest of it.