Brunch on West Green has not existed since Boyd Dining Hall last year, but Culinary Services said it remains open to the idea.
After launching "Athens Asks" earlier this month, The Post was asked a question that we felt was in dire need of answering:
"Will Boyd ever have Sunday brunch again?"
Before West Green Market District opened Fall Semester, hungry Ohio University students on West Green were able to wake up Sunday mornings and venture to Boyd Dining Hall for brunch.
When Boyd closed for renovations after Fall Semester 2015, the question students were wondering was: Will there still be brunch at the new dining hall?
So far, the answer is no.
“We wanted to start out with our current menu which was based on comments from our student focus group (Culinary Services Development Committee)," OU Spokeswoman Katie Quaranta said in an email. “We continue to evaluate our customer requests and needs, and make changes where appropriate.”
OU students are becoming accustomed to the decline of brunch on OU’s campus. Jefferson Dining Hall offered brunch before it closed at the end of Spring Semester 2013.
During the days of Boyd brunch, students were greeted after a night of debauchery (or not) with pancakes, waffles, eggs and hashbrowns.
Jess Carnprobst is a self-described “passionate Sunday Boyd brunch-goer.”
“That was our thing every Sunday. (My friends and I) went to Boyd brunch together, and that was a time when we could get up, it didn’t matter what we looked like and they always had really good food,” Carnprobst, a senior studying strategic communication, said.
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For two years, Carnprobst lived on West Green, and Boyd brunch was a tradition.
“The underclassmen who are living on West Green are being neglected of the true Boyd brunch because that was one of my favorite memories of being on West Green, and so the fact that they don’t have that is so upsetting to me,” Carnprobst said.
If students want to enjoy brunch at the dining halls now, Nelson is the go-to spot because it offers all-day breakfast.
Kasey Pastor never went to brunch at Boyd, but said she is feeling the effects of limited breakfast food options.
“When (West Green Market District) doesn’t even serve breakfast, everyone goes to Nelson,” Pastor, a sophomore studying health service administration, said. “You wait a good 20 minutes just to get your food (at Nelson).”
Although Erica Levin never went to brunch at Boyd, she said she remembers it.
“I feel like, with all the new buildings going up and everything happening, that they should try to keep a couple customs, and if older students used to go to brunch at Boyd, they should still be able to go to brunch at Boyd even though it’s new,” Levin, a junior studying management information systems, said.
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