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Draft 2

Entering at Janus Pannonius University freshmen students come face to face a hard task which is to try to familiarise not just all the brand-new customs and the observation of the spirit of university life but the place itself. JPU consists of 4 main buildings in the street of Ifjúság and injuring to it takes up a quorum of the first year students energy and time. Also looking for eating facilities stands them in front of a dilemma: which one to choose, how to build up the system of where to eat. In this case a restaurant and a buffet are open not only to students but to teachers and working people of JPU. The buffet area is a small spot in the labyrinth of building 'A' bellow the first floor where confectioneries, drinks, the see of baker's ware accessible for greedy customers. However, the tendency of refraining from it seem to outshine the percentage of those students who satisfy their need in the JPU buffet. This paper will present 5 ways to bring the reader's attention to the problem by firstly identifying the objects of the absence, and secondly to draw a picture of how it is done then conclude it by trying to find a solution for the proposition.

The biggest group of students who avoid from the buffet those ones who can not afford spending money daily because the products are fairly expensive. Having lots of money means independence and those who are not well-heeled need to find another way to fulfil their hunger. Also thrifty students have come across this difficulty and have found a solution. The first could be by not bringing any money at school to prevent even the idea of using up parents's wallets, furthermore taking food from home would save up a huge amount of money.

Another group of students, who are mainly women, are more concerned not about the amount of money is spend on food but the quality of it. More and more girls are out-an-out vegetarians or simply want to eat healthy nourishment not junk food like for example that greasy roll with caraway seeds. Girls have another reason not to eat fatty product: it is of course for the reason to stay slender and slim. An answer could be for them to visit the greengrocery store opposite the main buildings of the university where a wide selection of fruits are available to satisfy the demand of the stomach. Fruits not only healthy to the body but they help women to stay fit. However, for those who do not care if the products they eat healthy or not there is an immense temptation. Just to think of 'Ishler', which is a rich plain chocolate covered jam-filled teatime favourite, for chocolate lovers it is hard to resist such an eye-catching creatures. The clue would be not even going near the buffet.

The third bunch of students who do not want to spend their valuable time by rushing to the buffet and back to for example building 'D'; who hates queuing up, hates waiting and who loves comfort. Between lessons only little time can be spared on dashing to the buffet; queuing up makes these students feel that their limited free time are always engaged and never enough. The lovers of comfort just haven't got enough place to sit down and to eat their breakfast/lunch comfortably. At the greengrocery outside the university queuing up is unknown. The intake of food could be placed at the university park where the sea of benches are available for the ones who loves not only comfort but to eat surrounded by beautiful nature. If the weather does not allow associates to ingest food outside then university hall can be a useful alternative.

In Hungary the tradition of eating plentiful lunch goes a long way back. Mostly men students, who are accustomed by their family habit to eat proper lunch, do not find their expectations in the buffet, that is why the university restaurant is a lot better eating spot with its continually changing bill of fare and its possibility to eat lunch more comfortably than it could be eaten in the buffet.

Finally, the fifth class of students, presumably it is not vast, who do refuse to go anywhere near the buffet because they do not sympathise with the assistant. This may sound a bit weird but according to student comrades such incidents could happen. These minority of students would not have to go near the buffet if fellow students, who visit the buffet regularly, are asked to bring them some nourishment. Another version could be to think of the reasons why that person has become the object of displeasure. Often blaming other people for nothing is easier then finding the fault inside ourselves.

On the whole, students have various reasons for dodging the eating area to find a
substitute which would be more preferable to them. The urge of doing it can characterise different kinds of group of students. This characterisation is not connected to their chosen major, not even the age or interests but money, health, the question of comfort and the matter of human feelings toward another person. This paper hopefully underlined the points of trying to find alternatives and to point the main question: why people do choose not to go to the buffet even if it's emission of aroma is enveloping them and the appearance of products are provoking to the eye.