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Wednesday, August 31, 2022 — 9A

RILEY HODDER
Summer Managing News Editor

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The Michigan Daily compares and analyzes each dining hall on campus
The Michigan Daily compares and analyzes each dining hall on campus

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MHealthy

MHealthy is the University’s system of 
identifying healthy options at dining halls for 
those who are trying to be conscious about 
what they are consuming. Every menu item is 
either MHealthy or it’s not, so The Daily tal-
lied up the healthy items at each dining hall 
to determine which one offered the highest 
percentage of MHealthy options over the 
surveyed period. 

Here’s what they found:

Variety

Variety can be a hard thing to measure, but 
The Daily attempted to do so by counting the 
number of items served at each dining hall 
during the surveyed time period and dividing 
that amount by the number of days the dining 
hall was open. This was all in hopes of finding 
an average number of items per day at each 
public dining hall, so freshmen can decide 
which dining hall offers the most variety.

Here’s what they found:

Conclusion
For all incoming freshmen, take this information and 
run with it. Use it to inform your decisions on where to 
eat and what dining halls to steer clear of. You’re also 
free to use this data in any arguments you have with 
other freshmen over what dining hall is best, because 
that, too, is a classic freshmen experience.
No matter how little or how much you enjoy the din-
ing halls, this information is important, because more 
likely than not, they’re the only choice you have.
Summer Managing News Editor Riley Hodder can be 
reached at rehodder@umich.edu.

The Top 10s

If you’re curious about what dishes the 
dining halls most commonly serve, don’t 
worry — The Daily has compiled a list of the 
most commonly served items for breakfast/
brunch and lunch/dinner. Here are the Top 
10s:

A core part of any college fresh-
man experience is the dining halls. 
Whether you decide to avoid them 
at all costs or visit them for break-
fast, lunch, and dinner, it’s helpful 
to have a breakdown of which din-
ing halls do what things best. That 
is exactly what The Michigan Daily 
has set out to do.
The University of Michigan has 
seven public dining halls, and nine 

overall, which can be a lot for an 
incoming freshman. The public 
dining halls are in South Quad Resi-
dence Hall, Bursley Residence Hall, 
East Quad Residence Hall, Mosher-
Jordan Residence Hall, North Quad 
Residence Hall, Mary Markley Res-
idence Hall and at Twigs at Oxford 
Residence Hall. The Daily has ana-
lyzed menu data from the MDining 
API to help incoming freshmen pre-
pare for the challenge of deciding 
where to eat. The data was collected 
from Aug. 11, 2021, to April 29, 2022, 
and The Daily has broken it down 
for you here.

Vegetarian Options

Any incoming vegetarian freshmen will 
likely want to know which dining hall offers 
the most options for their dietary restric-
tions. To help these students and anyone else 
searching for vegetarian dishes, The Daily 
calculated the average number of vegetarian 
options served per day at each dining hall. 

If you’re a vegetarian, this breakdown is 
for you:

