I’m a parent who is overly concerned with the fact that I want my child to Have all the basic essential needs while in school. I’d like to erradicate the idea of starving College students. I’m ready to start a grocery delivery service and cooking and serving of Hot meals on Sunday and maybe one day during the week. I’m just trying to get feedback from students and parents. Are there any services of such being rendered already?
I’m 3000 miles away from home, so I (and many of us) wouldn’t have that option.
Most universities will have either meal plans and/or restaurants and grocery stores within a short distance. For me, the meal plan is too expensive so I just go with the latter (cook for myself or eat at nearby restaurants). Pretty hard to starve, unless I decide to skip a bunch of meals. It is also fairly easy to eat better than ramen or boxed mac & cheese while staying economical.
Well Blue Apron (https://www.blueapron.com/) ships nationwide so if kids have access to a kitchen they can get ingredients and recipes delivered to them - it didn’t exist when I was an undergrad, but as a graduate student currently, I have many peers who use it. I don’t know about that area specifically but grocery delivery services already exist in many cities too (e.g. peapod - http://www.peapod.com/). I even had a catering company approach me in Providence that was offering a “meal plan” students could sign up for where cooked meals to be microwaved would be delivered (or if enough students in a single building signed up, cooked in the dorm kitchen by the company). I actually found his old email to me but his website doesn’t exist anymore so I’m guessing it wasn’t too successful…I have no idea what the Isla Vista landscape is like, but the concepts are not novel, “and for that reason, I’m out.”
If the area has Seattle Sutton, and the child can do their own pick-up (if delivery is not included), that might be an option.
Whatever makes you think there are starving college students?
Not only are there a lot of stores and restaurants right in Isla Vista, there is also a service kids can call to get deliveries from almost all of them. When my daughter was really sick and living alone, she even got cold medicine and orange juice delivered! Isla Vista has everything they need.