University Co-ops in Comics
Part 04: Services Offered by A University Co-op
■ General Store
A co-op’s general store offers a wide range of students’ necessities, including textbooks, teaching materials, stationery products, sportswear, white coats, electronic dictionary, and food and beverages. You can also order items that are not sold in the store.
■ Bookstore
You can purchase books, magazines and textbooks at a discounted price by presenting your membership card. You can also place an order for any books, including foreign books.
■ Dining Hall
We offer a healthy and balanced diet at a cheap price. The dining hall offers various menus, such as set meal, daily specialty, noodles and curry.
The dining hall is self-service type. You pick up the tray, select any dishes you want and pay at the cash register. At the cashier you will receive a receipt stating your meal’s nutritional values. Some co-ops offer meal coupons and meal cards that can be purchased beforehand. In this case, regular reports will be sent to parents/guardians about the student's meal purchase history. University co-ops always provide menus with food and nutrition education in mind.
Author: Manabu Yamamoto
Please read from right to left
- What are services offered by a university co-op?
- A university co-op is "everyone’s own store", so the services offered are very different from one co-op to another, depending on the university scale and characteristics.
- At the general store, you can buy food.
- A co-op also sells home appliances to students who live apart from their family.
- Some co-ops also sells train and airplane tickets, also kérosene that is indispensable in winter.
- Wow, that’s amazing! You can find everything there!
- You know, there’s a program called Reading Marathon to help students get into the habit of reading.
- In this program, a student would write his/her comments on books he/she read and participate in a stamp rally. A book voucher will be given depending on the amount of books read.
- The comments would be displayed on the store for other students to read. They serve as advertisement.
- Our comments create a lovely store!
- Talking about one of the biggest concerns of parents regarding their children’s college life... dietary life!
- Yes, people tend to be irresponsible when they live alone. There’s no one that will make them bento lunch box.
- But!
- At the university co-op...
- What!
- Where am I?
- You are at a co-op’s dining hall that providing healthy meals at cheap price.
- The nutritional balance values are written on the menu. By adding those values, you can check your necessary nutritional intake easily.
- How kind of co-op to do that?
- I shouldn’t be so greedy!
- Pay more attention to your health!
