1, the school source is fixed.
The school canteen does not need to consider the problem of tourists, because it mainly faces the students of the whole school. When it's time for dinner, people have to queue up for meals. That scene is really spectacular. Let's make a rough count of the number of students. A university has four academic year groups, one year group has at least 10 majors, and one major and two classes have at least 80 students. Together with the teaching staff, these are at least 4,000 students. If the school is large, it has to have 10,000 students. These are his regular sources of customers that will not be lost, because ordinary schools also explicitly prohibit it.
2, the cost is low
Compared with hotels outside, the school canteen has no rent. The meals in the canteen are basically big pot dishes and big pot rice, which are not so exquisite. Take the school where I go to school as an example. I won't mention the name of my school here. Rice costs 20 cents, a vegetarian dish is around 2 yuan, and a meat dish is 3 yuan. -5 yuan, so a meal with one meat, one vegetable and two rice is about 6 yuan-8 yuan, and the quantity is still large, so you can definitely eat enough. If you eat in a restaurant outside, a bowl of rice is 2 yuan, and a meal is only a fraction of a dish. Schools generally implement the meal card system, which is to charge money into the meal card in advance, and then swipe it on the card reader when eating.
3. There are subsidies
In addition, the school canteen is subsidized by the state. It is not for profit, but for serving students well. The hotel outside is different. It belongs to investment, business and profit-making purpose.
There is also a joke about the canteen, which was widely circulated when I was at school. Tell it to everyone: When I was a freshman, I would scream when I met a creature when I was eating in the canteen; When I was a sophomore, when I met a creature in the cafeteria, I would silently dump the food. When I was a junior, when I met creatures in the canteen, I would use chopsticks to clip them out and put them aside. In my senior year, I met creatures in the canteen and ate them directly as meat dishes.