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Wendy's and Papa John's are the among restaurants on campus that have had issues with their registers and the Cardinal Card.
Wendy's and Papa John's fail to
deduct money from the Cardinal Card
Food services claims
purchases are monitored
By ALLISON STRICKLAND
News Editor
Wendy's must know what it's like to be a
poor college student with their reasonably
priced menu items. Heck, they might as well
just be giving the food away for free.
But wait. They already are.
During a Cardinal investigation during the
past three weeks, food services on campus were
· examined. The majority of restaurants had no
obvious problems, with two exceptions: Papa
John's and Wendy's. The Cardinal found that
card readers at these restaurants do not
deduct money from the Cardinal Card.
The investigation began at Outtakes on
Monday, Oct. 6, with two meal cards; one
had a balance of just over a hundred dollars,
while the other had a balance of $0.
The card with a zero balance was refused
at Subway, Outtakes, all restaurants on the
second floor of the SAC, Mitzi's and Ritazza.
However, Wendy's and Papa John's swiped and
accepted the card without any indication that
the card had no money on it.
In a story that appeared in the Cardinal
on Oct. 7, David Freeland, senior director of
dining services for U ofL, stated that Wendy's
had a problem with the software in the
registers not being equipped to process
Cardinal Cards. He went on to say that the
department of food services was now
working on finding compatible software to
speed up the ordering process and if that didn't
work, the registers would have to be changed.
"It is a hardware problem, not a software
problem," said Freeland. Plans to change the
registers are planned for Christmas break.
According to Sonny Altman, director of
con tract administration and risk management,
"problems occur e~ery year when food
services are first opened for the fall semester
and there ~renew challenges and adjustments
READERS' GUIDE
that need to be made." Altman said that "this
year may have been particularly challenging
for us because of all the changes we've made,
but overall, I think things have gone very well.
I don't believe we have any major problems
to note, but we are always looking for ways to
improve service and mal<e the campus dining
experience better for everyone."
The Cardinal Card i:s a student I. D. card
with a n:agnetic strip on the back, capable of
holding a variety of information. The amount
of money on meal cards is stored on this strip.
"Each time a customer makes a purchase
and uses their meal card to pay for their
purchases the card is swiped in the reader and
the accou~t is verified with the host computer
in Houchens," said Freeland. "It is also
possible for flex account holders to request
their balance at any Chartwells register."
However, requests to check the balance of the
meal card at Wendy's and Papa John's were
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Gubernatorial
candidates
weigh in on
higher education
• For candidate sketches,
see page 20
• For our candidate en­dorsement,
see page 18
By CHRIS COX
Cardinal Stoff Writer
The state of Kentucky has bore witness to
an increasingly unsettling trend in higher edu­cation
over the past few years. Annual tu­irion
increases at universities statewide, de­clining
state funds for universities and com­munity
and technical colleges and ranking in
the bottom 20'" percentile of number of col­lege
graduates are only a few of the more press­ing
issues co.ncerning post-secondary educa­tion.
With only one week remaining in the
race for Kentucky Governor, the Cardinal
takes a look at candidates Ben Chandler (D)
and Ernie Fletcher (R) positions on reform­ing
the face of Kentucky higher education.
Drawing support from both candidates is
the Research Challenge Trust Fund ("Bucks
for Brains"), which spotlights emerging tech­nologies
and manufacturing by endowing
universities wit~ the financial necessities to
establish groundbreaking resear-ch in these
fields. If the university matches the state
fronted sums, then the state maintains its con­tributions.
Fletcher and Chandler believe in
continued funding of the act as stimulation
for job growth and an economic module for
universities.
"This program has been vital in the state's
efforts to promote research and development
and which in turn drives out state's economy
and creates jobs for our future. It has encour­aged
hundreds of researchers to settle in Ken­tucky
and has led to development of scores of
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