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April 18, 2024

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Campusfood Facebook causes ‘friendzy’

March Madness is over, but Food Friendzy is still going strong. A Facebook application sponsored by Campusfood.com, Food Friendzy gives Facebook users a chance to match three tiles on a memory-like game board and win Campusfood Cash, restaurant coupons and even Food Friendzy T-shirts.’ All prizes are redeemable on the Campusfood Web site, which requires Facebookers to link their accounts to the Campusfood Web site to redeem prizes. Senior Shelly Willgren said she plays Food Friendzy almost every day. ‘My roommates got me hooked on it,’ she said. ‘We have a kind of competition going. If we win, we always have to brag.’ Campusfood offers online menus from which students and community members can order food from restaurants in over 300 campuses across the nation. For many University students, this means pizza. ‘I’d say my favorite place [to order from] is probably Pisanello’s [Pizza], because they have the most variety,’ said Willgren. With 65,468 monthly active users, Food Friendzy has a following, although some believe it could be fixed. Willgren said she could see it being rigged, as she won a lot when she first started playing, but now loses most of the time. Although she sometimes doesn’t win anything for weeks, Willgren said when she does win, the victory just makes her want to spend her Campusfood Cash more. ‘I know other people that have won like $75,’ she said. ‘It’s a good application for people that are on Facebook all the time. It’s just a fun game.’ At the restaurant end of Campusfood is Abraham Valle, manager of Myles Pizza Pub. Myles Pizza Pub first started using Campusfood’s ordering services about two years ago. Valle said the Web site helps facilitate the ordering process for the restaurant and for technichally-savvy students. ‘The reason we do it is because it’s just that a lot of kids nowadays are getting online and ordering food,’ Valle said. ‘What’s the term? ‘Keeping up with the Joneses.” Although Valle said the Web site is helpful, he added Campusfood doesn’t do much to promote Myles’ as a business. He hasn’t noticed any particular increase in sales and said the reputation of the restaurant is what causes people to order a Myles pizza. ‘Not to sound arrogant, but I can sell a pizza better than any computer,’ he said. ‘[Customers] are going to come here no matter what, Campusfood just makes it easier for them.’ Not everyone is completely satisfied with Campusfood’s services, however. Brittany Adams, a senior, decided to boycott both Pisanello’s Pizza and Campusfood after representatives refused to honor an order she placed for a heart-shaped pizza listed as free on the Campusfood Web site. ‘I’ve worked in retail, so I know obviously it wasn’t zero dollars,’ she said ‘But if something is marked like that they have to sell it to the customer.’ Shortly after placing her order for the pizza Adams received a call from a Campusfood representative, who told her she must either cancel her order or pay full price for the pizza. ‘He just kept saying, ‘it’s not going to happen, it’s not going to happen,” Adams said. ‘There was no semblance of customer service.’ Although she previously used Campusfood and Food Friendzy constantly, ordering at least a pizza a week through Campusfood, Adams said her experience has turned her against the Web site and its companion Facebook application. ‘I think Food Friendzy has made people more aware of Campusfood, and I wish less people used it. Food Friendzy just increases their advertising, and they don’t deserve it.’ In spite of the trouble Adams had with Campusfood, Miranda Liss, general manager of Pisanello’s Pizza, said the incident was simply a mistake on the part of Campusfood and that Pisanello’s has had a good experience with Campusfood. ‘I try and work with the customers if anything does happen,’ Liss said. ‘We really didn’t mean for any of it to happen. If we were having problems with Campusfood and upsetting our customers we would cancel it.’

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