Students, faculty and staff will be able to use their AllCampus and Board Bucks to purchase food and drinks at the Carter-Finley Stadium this football season, University Dining said in a press release Monday.
Jennifer Gilmore, communications manager for Dining, said it was to expensive to install the card readers but it was a service students deserved to have.
Gilmore said if students use it, the system will make up for the installation. Gilmore said Dining always considers any realistic and reasonable requests it receives
“We felt it would be worth the investment if it would help students maximize their AllCampus and Board Bucks accounts, using money already allocated for eating and on-campus living expenses toward their meals at games,” Gilmore said.
Card readers have been installed at three concession stands near the student sections.
Randy Lait, the director of University Dining said they added a wireless network last year to accept credit cards, and with the introduction of a new card reader that does not require a building controller unit, They can install a wireless bridge and then run the card reader on that new network.
“At the time, the card readers required a building controller unit that needed a wired network, and there was no network at the stadium,” Lait said.
Madeline Leetz, a freshman in Biological sciences said freshmen don’t really carry around cash.
“It’s a pain to get out cash especially at football games,” Leetz said. “I always use my AllCampus card so being able to use the card at football game is a huge convenience for my friends and I.”
Kylie Lindsay, a freshman in textiles said she thinks its cool that she doesn’t have to carry around cash at the football games.
“I’m glad that I don’t have to worry about going to the ATM to take out cash,” Lindsay said. “It’s a guaranteed meal at a football game.
According to a press release, the cards readers connect directly to the campus card system, allowing the use of the AllCampus Account, Board Bucks, and the Employee Payroll Deduction account to make purchases of food and beverage.
Lait said in a press release that students are very accustomed to the convenience of using their AllCampus cards to make purchases at campus venues.
“Adding Carter-Finley stadium to our network will enable students—as well as faculty and staff—to purchase food and soft drinks using their AllCampus account funds or the Board Bucks component of their provided they have made a deposit into their AllCampus account or have a meal plan,” Lait said in a press release.
Gilmore said the investment was worth serving a big student population and this is another way students can manage their expenses if they are on a tight budget.
“This keeps it from going on other accounts that they don’t have to use. And on top of that it’s a convenience factor Gilmore said. “That means not stopping at ATM to get cash. Instead students can go straight to the game and not worry about it.”
