lifestyles
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
By Tara Trenary Kansan staff writer
It is Friday night.
You make a decision — no more peanut butter and jelly. You are going out to eat.
You open the refrigerator and find nothing but spoiled milk and something you think might be half a hamburger wrapped in tin foil.
There is a hunger pain deep in your stomach, and you open your wallet only to find Dad's "emergency only" credit card.
There are many Lawrence restaurants that are popular among KU students, but when faced with choosing one, many students do not know what they should look for.
"Eating out is something that students rarely get to do here, and we usually have to save up to go out to eat," said Barry Jones, Svacbase. N.Y., sophomore.
Jones, like many college students, has a budget. Eating out constitutes a special occasion.
"I only have five bucks" or "Hey, this looks like a cool place" sometimes is the most that some students will think of before going to a restaurant.
But there are many more ways to be sure that the restaurant you choose is the right one.
When it comes to choosing a restaurant based on the cost of a meal, several KU students named these 10 popular restaurants that provide a range of prices.
Lunch at Teller's, 746 Massachusetts St. and Willie C' s Cafe and Bar, 616 Vermont St., average $7.50. Average lunch prices at Free State Brewery & Pub, 636 Massachusetts St., Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar, 2520 Iowa St., Molly McGee's, 2429 Iowa St. are $6.50. Perkins Restaurant, 1711 W. 23rd St., Massachusetts Street Delicatessen, 941 Massachusetts St., The Yacht Club, 530 Wisconsin St., and Dos Hombres VI, 815 New Hampshire St., serve lunch for about $5.
From calamari, which is squid, at Paradise Cafe to artichoke dip at Free State, these 10 restaurants may satisfy even the strangest of appetites.
Dinner prices are slightly higher. They average about $15 at Teller's, $10 at Paradise Cafe, $8.50 at Molly McGee's and $7.50 at Free State, Willie C's, Mass Street Deli, and Dos Homes. Dinner prices are about $6.50 at Applebee's and Perkins and about $5 at the Yacht Club.
Menu variety is also important to many KU students.
She said she liked to see a menu with a large variety of dishes.
According to the reports, when an inspection is done, department inspectors look for a variety of things:
When a good price and menu have been found, students should be aware of other problems they may face when choosing a restaurant.
A nice, clean environment is just what the Kansas Department of Health and Environment inspection reports detail.
■ Food equipment and utensils must be stored in a well-moulded corner.
"Once in a while, it's nice to try something different," said Laura McCullen, Berkeley Heights, N.J., senior.
"In a restaurant, I look for a nice, clean environment," McCullen said.
food must be properly labeled, protected and stored.
The premises must be clean and in good repair overall.
Employees must be clean and free of infections.
If any area on the inspection list is not maintained, points are taken off from a restaurant's maximum score of 100.
According to the inspection reports, restaurants are expected to voluntarily close if the score falls below 70.
Once preliminary information on restaurants has been gathered, and a final decision has been made, students may sit down and enjoy their meals.
But remember — tomorrow it is back to Ramen noodles.
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Lunch $ Dinner $
Averages
Teller's
746 Massachusetts St.
$7.50 15.00
Free State Brewery & Pub
636 Massachusetts St.
6.50 7.50
Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar
2520 Iowa St.
6.50 6.50
Molly McGee's
2429 Iowa St.
6.50 8.50
Paradise Cafe
728 Massachusetts St.
6.00 10.00
Willie C's Cafe and Bar
616 Vermont St.
7.50 7.50
Massachusetts Street Delicatessen
941 Massachusetts St.
5.00 6.50
The Yacht Club
530 Wisconsin St.
5.00 5.00
Perkins Restaurant
1711 W. 23rd St.
5.00 5.00
Dos Hombres VI
815 New Hampshire St.
5.00 7.50
Local restaurants ranked between 72 and 94 out of a possible 100 points on the Kansas Department of Health and Environment's latest food establishment inspection form.
To Eat or To Run
SEPTEMBER 26,1995 KU Life
Jodie Chester / KANSAN
Source: Kansas Health Department
Lead Story
Terence Cunningham, a Palo Alto, Calif., Unitarian, embarked earlier this year on what he estimated was a $70 million fundraising campaign to build a rocket ship and lunar-landing vehicle for the purpose of placing an indestructible copy of the Holy Bible on the moon for safekeeping. There, Cunningham told the newspaper Mountain View Voice, the Bible would be preserved against tampering or in case civilization is destroyed on Earth from plagues, wars or, in his words, "acts of God."
Uh-Oh
Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., sponsored the first International Tuba-Euphonium conference in June. One composition included a crescendo that required 750 tubas to play at once.
In May, despite the opposition of state Sen. Joe Neal, the Nevada Senate passed a bill to prohibit people from carrying guns while drunk. Neal argued that the bill would hurt activities of gun clubs, some of which permit drinking during target-shooting socials.
In May, researchers at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory proposed to the nuclear weapons plant in nearby Liken, SAC., that certain bantam chickens could be raised in radiation-contaminated areas without harm to later human consumption — because the chickens' bodies metabolize the dangerous levels of radiation in about 10 days. Said one researcher, "Ify, call it radioactively cleaned meat and you put it on the [grocery] shelf for half-price, I bet people in this country would eat it."
in April, a 54-year-old truck driver filed a $10 million lawsuit in Guillotine, Tenn., over a defective penile implant that he says "took all the manhood from me." The man said he suffered blisters, bruising, infection and embarrassment. His attorney said, "He could be just walking down the street, and it would erect on its own."
Larry Wayne Harris, a septic-tank inspector in Dublin, Ohio, and a member of the Aryan Nations white supremacist group, was charged in May with purchasing vials of freeze-dried bubonic plague under false pretenses. He had told American Type Culture Collection in Rockville, My., that he owned a lab and was a serious researcher of bubonic plague.