1980_01 The Daily Collegian January 1980

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Increased costs spur higher food prices
by Kimberfy Kuhn
Man cannot live by bread alone, but
that may be the only sustenance the
average CSUF student can afford the
way food prices-like everything else-
are going up.
According to the administrator of
campus Food Services Rick Finlay, rising
food and operating costs are to blame for
the higher prices on food served on
campus that went into effect this spring.
Finlay was called before the Associ¬
ated Students Senate Tuesday to answer
concerns of the AS over the quality and
high price of food and reports of discour¬
teous service by Food Service
employees.
Finlay said that the seven percent in¬
crease in the minimum wage, which
went from $2.90 an hour to $3.10, is the
most obvious inflated operating cost.
Food Services also pays the entire
employee's benefits costs, which came
to, $109,000 last year. Soft drink prices
have increased 16 percent. And the price
hike on breakfast pastries, the menu
item most affected, is due to a change of
suppliers.
The problem is understanding that the
organization is a non-profit group, but
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are commercial operations of tnat non¬
profit organization, Finlay said. 'By law,
we must make a profit because we have
to pay all of our bills with the monies we
generate through sales. We don't get
any subsidy or help from the State or any
other sources," he added.
Food services operate 300 days a year,
and out of that, Finlay said, there are
only 160 good income days. Finlay said
that they are not in an economically
viable situation and that the Food
Services is either 'treading water or
losing money."
According to Finlay, a range of about
two to three and one-half net profit is
budgeted. He estimates that general
sales will amount to over $2 million this
year, whereas general sales came to just
under that amount last year.
'That (net profit) money is needed for
future purchases and capital expendi¬
tures," Finlay said, "to create and main¬
tain reserves for that rainy day when
strange things hit us during the course of
the budgeted year."
Finlay said that out of any net profit
Food Services gets, the first $12,000
goes to the College Union, and every
dollar after that is split between the CU
and Food Services. "Exorbitant* profit
goes to a General Reserve Fund for capi¬
tal improvements, Finlay said.
"As a rough rule of thumb, if our food
and labor costs on our cash operation, in¬
cluding employee benefits, are kept
under 80 percent, then we are at a profit-
making status," Finlay said.
Finlay told the Dairy Collegian that his
initial reaction to being called before the
AS was "very curious" because it
'reflects the change in the attitude of
students in the past few years' to prob¬
lems that Food Services faces.
"They (the AS) seemed more receptive
to the problems of the Food Services,
whereas in the past they have been
antagonistic," Finlay said
Finlay feels that students, 'because
they get out more, and have a more real¬
istic yardstick to measure by, will pay
the price of food on campus, and that
students are much more aware and
realistic than faculty and administration
give them credit for.
Finlay added that faculty and staff
gripe more than students do.
In answer to reports of discourteous
service, Finlay said that he is open to
complaints and can look into which
employees are giving patrons problems
Finlay said that the best thing to do is
either to complain to the supervisor on
duty or else to take note of the time and
he would check into it.
Finlay also told the AS that he 'sin¬
cerely doubted" that a fast-food
franchise would be brought on campus in
the future such as exists on the Long
Beach campus. He cited the close proxi¬
mity of such franchises to the campus it¬
self as a reason not to bring one to
CSUF. Finlay said that the existence of a
fast-food franchise on campus would not
bring Food Services prices down.
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Finlay also reported that the Bucket,
which was licensed to sell beer last year,
is "not a real hot item' at the projected
sales level. He said that there has been a
"flip-flop ratio" in sales where food sales
have dropped and the beverage sales are
"substantially higher" Payroll costs
have increased also because the Bucket
has to operate with three employees "to
preserve the sanity of the over 21
controls." He added that at the present
sales level, the Bucket could conceivably
be operated by one employee.
In other AS Senate action, Robert E
Lundal, Secretary of the Advisory Board
of the Child Day Care Center at CSUF,
requested a budget augmentation in the
salaries and wages category He said it is���needed to offset costs partly incurred as
a result of the recently adopted Associa¬
ted Students payroll system. The Child
Day Care Center did not request addi-.
tional funds from the AS, merely a shift
in monies in certain budgeted areas. The
request was approved.
Senator-At-Large Ron Ramirez said he
has decided to investigate the question
of who got the money for a commercial
former football Coach Bob Padilla did
The commercial ended up costing CSUF
a game by forfeit.
Foreign culture in film
by Cathy Cat-others
Looking to put some ex itement in
to your Saturday night?
A foreign film may just be your
needed break from the dull routine
Foreign films are Fresno's newest
cultural entertainment with an audience
that grows weekly.
Fig Carden Cinemas feature new
foreign films every Friday.
Fig Carden began showing the films
on .- regular basis in September They
ori finally booked six films and have
c .itinued showing new ones ever since
Though they are just breaking even
now, the cinema hopes to show profit
from the films during the next 52 weeks
According to a poll conducted by Fig
Carden Cinema, of those who came to
see the foreign films nearly half were
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group were also in large attendance
The films that attract the largest
audience are Italian and French
"When we have the Italian and French
movies we have large groups of people
or entire families who corie in speaking
Italian or French," said Monte Moore,
manager of Fig Carden Cinema
Even if you don't speak a foreign
language you can still enjoy the film by
reading the English subtitles According
to Moore, becoming accustomed to the
use of subtitles is the hardest part of
watching a foreign film
"After overcoming the problem of
subtitles most people find the films quite
enjoyable." said Moore
Moore said he finds the quality of
foreign films excellent, "Each film
covers a social issue and sticks with it
throughout the film," he said
Moore also said he admires the photo¬
graphy talents and landscape employed
in the films
"You can sit and watch them many
times and still pick up something new
and interesting,'' Moore said
Foreign films have a reputation for
containing a great deal of sex Moore
said he felt that though the films do have
a great deal of sex it's different than the
sex scenes of American films
"Though foreign films are more
sexually explicit than American films,
the sex has something to do with the
film," Moore said "In an American
film the director will go from a car crash
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