Holloway Commons — Restaurant in Durham

The steak and cheese sub station is one of the only things I find appetizing here. I will often spend all week looking forward to Thursday, the one day a week they provide it. Today, after class, I went to Hoco to get my fix. My mouth was watering as soon as I walked in the door, only one thing was on my mind. It didn’t take long however, until my fantasy came crashing down. I asked for two subs with cheese, American of course. Then, I could only look on in horror as the following events unfolded. The employee grabbed two slices of cheese, and dropped them on the steak....directly on top of one another. Then, before I could blink, the lukewarm contents were scooped into a bun, and placed on my plate. Zero meltage. That’s what I was left with. The steak was warm at best, and the cheese was still cold, solid and only spanned across half of each sub. I would like to say I won’t be coming back, but I’ll probably be back around 8 tonight for another one. I can only pray that the cheese is melted this time.

UPDATE:

It has now been two years since my infamous steak and cheese fiasco. It has come to my attention that steak and cheese bar at HOCO has been CANCELLED. That is right, they don’t even do it anymore! How pathetic!

In, addition I wanted to relay that the pizza quality is extremely poor and has been for years. It isn’t hard to make a decent pizza and UNH really drops the ball in this department.

It hurts because the potential is totally there. I guess for now a world with soggy pizza and no steak and cheese subs will...

I’m appalled by how terrible the dining hall at Holloway Commons is run. Today I waited 24 minutes in a line of 10 people for stir fry, when there were SIX WORKERS behind the grill just chatting and hanging out. I’ve seen it run much more efficient with just 2-3 workers; on top of that, my food was cold. Nothing is ever restocked and I see workers on their phones constantly, walking around and doing nothing. That really says something about the leadership you have here. I don’t blame the workers getting paid $12/hr with no direction of what to do. If the food is gonna be consistently bad, I won’t be getting any more meal plans from here. Not one fork was stocked in the building and had to eat my stir fry with a spoon. It’s appalling how this place continues to be allowed to even serve food. I even saw one of the stir fry workers picking at his nose while on the grill, and another flipping off their friend, as well as another with their head under the protective glass that is supposed to stop spit/germs from going on the grill. Just overall low quality food and terrible workers. No true leadership here which is why the place has gotten worse...

Straight terrible. Do not come here, don’t bring your family, don’t bring your friends, you do not want to eat here. All day Sunday breakfast is advertised as a luxury when in reality nobody wants cold French toast sticks and artificial syrup at 3pm. This dining hall has gotten substantially worse in the past 2 years and it shows hard. Even bread selection to make your own sandwich is trash. Workers are always standing around doing apparently nothing and you wonder why when they pay $12 an hour and then complain about staffing issues. Employees can easily find higher pay in surrounding businesses and even other on-campus jobs. Many days out of the week there will be empty tubs of cream cheese, Nutella, ect and the only thing to eat is a cold and protein deprived sandwich. If you manage to catch hoco for 1 day out of the month where the food is alright, then prepare to wait 30+ minuets for food that is still mid by normal standards. Unh...