Editorial: Food study: hold your appetites

University officials should wait until fall before they begin to any of the report's suggestions. The Cornyn Fasano Group, based in Portland, Ore., surveyed approximately 1,500 respondents and made its own first-hand observations about the fragmented food-services situation on and around campus. In the report, CFG suggests numerous sweeping changes to food services, such as centralizing operations, improving Dining Services and rounding up street and sidewalk vendors -- a step, the report acknowledges, the University already has undertaken. Since the study says that more than 50,000 people comprise the market for food and food services around campus, the University should consider input from its broad base of customers before even thinking of implementing suggested changes -- especially because out-sourcing of certain operations remains a strong possiblity. Unlike the vending ordinance, the University doesn't have to go to City Council to make any of the changes suggested by the report. As a result, the process invariably is not as public. When the fall semester starts, the CFG report, along with the other recent residential-living, retail, health-system and recreation studies, should be at the top of University Council's agenda and those of its constituent bodies.