Wide range of dining reforms considered

[unhappycamper]

Senior Airman Cecil D'Souza serves Maj. Corbit Bufton breakfast March 23 at an air base in Southwest Asia. Debate is ongoing in the Air Force about the future of on-base dining halls and Air Force food services.


Wide range of dining reforms considered
By Tom Spoth - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Nov 15, 2009 8:38:55 EST

Feel like buffalo wings at the club? Swipe your meal card.

Want a bag of popcorn from the snack bar? Swipe your meal card.

Got a hankering for a Double Whopper? Swipe your meal card — maybe.

The Air Force is working on a way to make the enlisted airman’s meal card as good as cash at other places on base besides the dining hall, even privately owned restaurants.

Officials don’t have the details worked out yet but know from airman complaints and the service’s own numbers — meals costing more and fewer being served — that the dining system needs to be fixed.


Rest of article at: http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2009/11/airforce_dining_halls_111509w/



unhappycamper comment: It sounds like the Halliburton-run mess halls are having problems.

[woodsprite]

1. They ought to check out some Universities. Some have OCMP -

or the "Off campus meal plan" options. Maybe they're having a hard time with buy-in from the restaurants or other venues. The mealplan cards at the Univ. are populated with parents or kids monies, whereas the military's cards would be populated using government funds. Don't know if that's a consideration or not. Maybe Halliburton doesn't want to let them out of a contract.