What is missing at AUIS?!

Students in queue to get food from AUIS Blue Café.
Photo by Marwan Muhammed - AUIS Voice

by The Third Eye
A few minutes ago, I went to the so-called Blue Café at AUIS with several of my friends. We were all starving! Each of us ordered a soup. I was the first among my friends who tasted the soup. I barely could tell my friends to not eat it because it had the terrible smell and taste. I felt like I was poisoned. We directly went to the owner and asked, “What is wrong with this food?” He very confidently responded and said, “There is nothing wrong with it.” I asked him to taste the food and see how its taste looks like. Thus, we all left the food without even touching it. The owner of the cafeteria very confidently said Good Bye without even apologizing!!! I don’t have anything more to say except the following.

I walk around the AUIS New Campus and find it as one of the most fabulous campus around the area. The building has almost all the necessary tools including loading park, classes and offices. It seems to me that almost every member of the AUIS community is so excited to walk through the beautiful views of the new campus. The trees have brought more fruit to the AUIS environment recently. The classes are just great in a way that provides a great opportunity for both the professors and the students. We all should appreciate for the great job that the construction department of the AUIS has done for us so far. Over all, the library, classes, computer labs, parking loads, and almost all the other aspect of the AUIS are just great so far. However, the AUIS new campus is missing one of the most outstanding places that is the so-called cafeteria AGAIN!

There have been so many articles and reports that all have complained about that issue. The words, "Oh Blue Cafe and Oh the terrible food of AUIS cafeteria," always can be heard around from the mouth of every single member of AUIS. However, it seems that no one from the AUIS Administration is carious about that issue because the cafeteria problem is just going and going without any changes. There have been complains about the AUIS cafeteria since ever the establishment of AUIS, yet no one have been satisfied with the changes that have been occurred to the cafeteria so far.

Happily, we can see the New AUIS Administration building, where the new cafeteria is located, has almost been finished. Thus, we, the students and faculty members, are expecting a much better cafeteria with a much better services. We are hoping that there will be food from the earliest morning until the late afternoon to give a hope for those people who are obligated to stay until late evening doing their papers and work studies. We are hoping that there will be a long menu for the foods instead of only the small and cold sandwiches. We are hoping to see various types of foods with various prices. We hope to see food and drinks from the cheapest price to the most expensive ones. We are hoping the owner of the cafeteria to take the financial situation of all the AUIS members into his consideration. The owner should understand that not all the AUIS members are full paid. There are hundreds of students with financial aids and another hundreds with sponsorships that means they can't afford to eat from the AUIS cafeteria due to such high prices. The words, "It is not a cafeteria. It is a five star restaurant," are those words one can hear from hundreds of the students and faculty staff members when they describe AUIS cafeteria. Thus, We are hoping to see the above and several other changes before opening the new cafeteria.

Briefly, we, the students, need a much better cafeteria with a much better service!! We can’t go out and go to the Sulaimani University’s cafeteria anymore to eat. It is enough! How many times we should ask and say, “A better Cafeteria, please?!”