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Everything But Anchovies has been catering the Rassias Foundation’s summer All Language Programs (“ALPS”) this year, and somehow this plucky little private enterprise has gotten the job done. In fact, the Allen Street restaurant’s crew received a standing ovation for its good food at the end of the first ALPS session. EBA’s served three meals a day at Brace Commons in the East Wheelock Cluster.

Of course, EBA’s has an unfair advantage over DDS. EBA’s pays market wages; as a result, there is money available for good quality food. DDS, par contre, pays its staff about double the going rate for food service workers in the Upper Valley, so cuts must be made on raw materials, recipes have to be less ambitious, and prices need to be high in order not to lose money on operations.

This choice has not met with the approval of Dartmouth students. At the ALPS program, EBA’s is showing how it could be done one day at Thayer, if Dartmouth’s administrators put the interests of students ahead of their extravagant social justice agenda.