Awesome quality , good service, clean and neat, well-known brand products but EXPENSIVE prices. Everyone complains about it, but little is done to change this. A few months ago, an email with news about the school was sent saying that the school knew about this high prices and that they would do something about it… have you seen any changes? NO.
This is clearly a monopoly. We don’t have a second option, actually we do, we can walk 1000m till Lidl, Burger King or any-other place in Bijlmer centre, but when you look through the window analysing that option in your mind and you see that it is raining or there is a wind-katrina-style-storm, then you will have to buy at Sorbon or just wait till get home or die of hunger.
Once I went to the HES Cafe and I saw an incredible offer: Adez + snikers= €1!!! I thought, wow, they start making good offers, finally they understand the small pocket of the student… still a bit surprise, I bought the offer, of course, and while drinking I looked for the ending date and: 1 day to go! I understood that this wasn’t an fair offer… two days after, new stuff came and prices were high again: Adez €1,85 and snikers €0,60 – way beyond the friend and lovely €1.
Perhaps they could lower the prices and increase demand, right? Or buy smaller cups to fit with the amount of coffee… (did you notice that the cappuccino in the cantine is smaller than the cappuccino in the Cafe and both cost €1,15? and even the cup only gets filled till 3/4). Sorbon prices seem to be almost at the same level of AH To Go, but the difference here is that we don’t go anywhere, we stay.
What we could do, is to take action by ourselves since the school seems to be busy with something else. With the European style of protests, we could just don’t buy anything for a day or two… or we could apply the Southamerican style which is just block the doors and don’t let anybody buy anything in exchange of a drop in general prices of, say, 20%?
Well, express yourself here and if you are serious, we could really do something.
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March 16th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
waaay to expensive, why do they want to make money with us? as if we were rich or something…
March 19th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
I Agree with Jim, as if the studies aren’t expensive enough!! Just the dutch attitude; Dagobert Duck Style!!
March 24th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Echt schooierpraktijken dat ze ons zo leeg willen zuigen
March 26th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
The prices are only booming since everybody is stupid enough to make the purchase….
You as a future manager would probably increase the price as well!
So here is the plan:
if demand falls Sorbon has to lower its prices in order to win enough customers. (if you don’t get it check your books on price elasticity)
To conclude, WE HAVE TO BOYCOTT SORBON. just like they want to do with the olympics….
March 26th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
I think it’s important to stand up for one’s rights. Good luck and tell me how it ends up!
March 26th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Hey man, it’s unbelievable how HES allows this company to do this to us… if HES decreases the tution fee, I’d be glad to pay extra for a little miserable tosti… or like 60 cents for a f*cking piece of bread… yeah, let’s boycot Soborn!
March 27th, 2008 at 9:39 am
really expensive prices… it would be really good to get cheap food at school, I’m lazy to go to Bijlmer to get some food… hope something can be changed
March 27th, 2008 at 9:54 am
HES sent an email saying that they were going to do something about the prices, so that means they know the problem but don’t do anything about it… THanks HES for the concern… if you don’t pay the tution fee on time you get a letter that you can’t go to school anymore and some threat like that…
March 27th, 2008 at 10:11 am
It is too expensive man, we should demonstrate against them.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:07 am
Dear all,
there are many things which has to be taken into account: the first is that the school knows about the prices because they have signed the contract with the company and they are not really capable or dont want to do anything because ofcourse they take percentage.
But the reality is that UVA has also canteen which is cheap and nice and they really cook for the people.
I strongly recommend that a protest takes place and this protest has to be not only strong positioned but also in some serious time frame.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:15 am
We should start a protest. Lets say some week in April No visits to these canteens to show them who is in charge! As well make a deal with some other food supplier in the Bijlmer to cover this hole during this protest week.
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:29 pm
one solution: revolution! therefore: proletarisch winkelen. It works.
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Very good idea Rontina and Rotana, but in order to have succesfull protest there need to be a lot more people involved in it. I like it that things are rolling now, but I wonder how many people are really aware of this particular problem and how many are actually willing to do something about it. And what if, say a part of students dont buy anything there for a week or so, they will still sell things. Unless the majority of the students stop buying from sorbon, I dont think they are going to decrease their prices. Its a not a question of morality here, its a question about profit.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:38 pm
“Awesome quality , good service, clean and neat,…” ????
What is there to change about the quality of a Vlam Tosti or a bottle of DubbleFris and could you honestly say that the personel (have you EVER seen one smiling?) offers good service? The last time I was there they followed me to the second floor because I didn’t clean my table and forced me to go down and do it so I guess that ‘clean’ part is more of our own doing.
I suggest we look at what they’re doing at InHolland with that student-run supermarket/shop and make the Hes-cafe a school project…
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:34 am
That would be nice!
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:54 am
I have never seen anything that would look so disgusting. Why do people publish stuff like that? I don’t understand them!
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:21 am
Well let me start with answering a few qeustions you guys seem to have
1 The reason why the prices in the cantine and the hescafe are so high is because the SCHOOL doesn’t subsidice sorbon because of that the can’t lower there own prices
2 most of the rules INCLUDING the pick up behind yourselfs policy is both work of SCHOOL and sorbon cause if we don’t .. well you can imagine the mess yourself
3 internal at sorbon somethings are going wrong they addmit it ain’t going flawless but there trying like how would you like to go to work with no manager at place
4 the have a shortage of people they have the same with less and because of that we get all those uitzendkrachten and because of that most thiongs go wrong
5 some of you know that the personeel at sorbon know that prices are high and sometimes take care of that problem for example not charging the whipcream when you take a hot coco
Peace out and start talking with school and not sorbon
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:07 pm
It’s good to hear something from the inside!
so let’s cancel the bombing!
April 4th, 2008 at 8:31 am
I think we should simply stop buying there
April 6th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
It’s a pain in everyone else’s butt. Let’s just stop discussing this crap, the topic is too questionable.
April 9th, 2008 at 11:55 am
I’ve heard so much about this website, so I finally decided to visit it. I have to say that it rocks, keep it up!
May 21st, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Why does sorbon need subsidice from school when the prices are so high? that’s not a reason for increasing the prices…
sounds like the monopoly company is asking for subsidice….
May 31st, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Stop buying over there! If the admin of this website writes an e-mail to 10 people and they need to forward it and they also forward it, before you know, nobody is buying there anymore! They need to lower the prices! We are students!
Example:
Dear students from the HES,
As you know…..
From now on we want to ask everybody…..
Kind Regards,
…
(Please FORWARD this e-mail to all your classmates)
May 31st, 2008 at 7:23 pm
http://www.sorbon.nl/
Visie:
-Sorbon Campus Hospitality biedt een origineel en aantrekkelijk assortiment
-De juiste prijs
The vision is to have the right price, well, it is isn’t.
June 2nd, 2008 at 1:07 pm
This post and all the comments will be printed + a letter with the changes we want will be given to the manager of HES- Sorbon and we’ll wait for an answer. If we don’t get any positive answer, we’ll take serious measures like stop buying there for a week, or block the doors, or I don’t know, we’ll think of something.
Anyway, this will be done for the next semester. Keep commenting and giving ideas everyone!!