Colman Commons — Restaurant in Mississauga

Colman Commons is not worth my $2700+ meal plan, I'd rather be using that money for actual edible food + groceries. The prices in Colman Commons are higher than if I were to buy groceries weekly. Sure, it's convenient how close it is to campus residence, but seeing my friends in other schools get high-quality food AND food service is disappointing. Managers at fast-food restaurants run their establishments better than Colman Commons. The workers ruin my day sometimes, although they are kind most of the time. Something that's telling is the fact the quality of my food is different each day, there is clearly an issue in establishing strict standards amongst the workers in making certain food or following certain regulations. Why am I getting a completely different version of a food item with the same ingredients on different days because of different workers and their personal standards? Besides that, I have seen the workers violate food regulations. E.g., touching their nose and then food, putting prongs for vegetable items in meat items, and not washing their hands as often as they should. Sure they use gloves but clean hands are better than gloves (anyone who has been in food service knows that). It seems they value convenience over quality. Even then, I've seen workers get extremely stressed because they don't have an appropriate or convenient way of tracking orders during rushes or overall methods of organization. I don't like having to search my food for hair or unidentified objects. People only eat here because they have to. You may also get food poisoning from the lack of properly cooked food. Most of the "diverse foods" they have are a joke to the cultures they're trying to imitate. The only things I have ever enjoyed here were packaged cookies, fresh pastries (most of the time certain items are rock-hard), and bottled soda or juice. This ridiculous establishment has decreased my quality of life and my appetite. This establishment makes me question UofT as a whole because of how one of the richest universities in Canada can have such a poor, low-quality dining experience. You'd expect a name like UofT to establish restaurants on campus that match...

Unbelievably disappointing. The food at this place is a letdown and incredibly expensive. They give you a choice between overcooked, undercooked, or fossilized. Being leaders of the food industry, they fulfill all three at once. The closing hours are also inaccurate, because the stated closing times are actually when the employees leave, not when the place stops serving the undesirable leftovers. Additionally, the workers cannot understand what customers are asking for. I'll attribute this to having to serve such disappointing food at exorbitant prices, although it could be improved. This place needs to lower their prices and stick to simpler foods, like fried eggs or oatmeal. They cannot cook plain white rice past the point of "gravel", which says something about their culturally diverse menu. The one positive attribute I can say about Colman Commons is their consistency. Consistently disappointing. As the closest cafeteria that remains open around evening hours, students in residence don't have much else choice. Im sorry to all the students that have to eat...

If I could make this review 0 stars, I would. First off, the food here is bad. Either its undercooked, overcooked or cold. It’s honestly a gamble at this point! The prices you pay here do not reflect the quality! And its not even just that that’s bad. The service is too. I once asked them for a little bit of parsley, and with the amounts of parsley they added, I felt like I was doing the cinnamon challenge.

I also wasn’t able to order one night, even though I had arrived during their business hours! They legitimately said that it was too late for that. This wouldn’t be the end of the world if I wasn’t a rez student and had no other means of eating. (IK I could just order UberEats or smth but I pay so much for this I should be able to have my grilled chicken wrap :( especially if they are still open).

Overall, extremely disappointed. (Do not come here unless...