The final option available for food is restaurants. These establishments are what prevent students from dying of severe malnutrition. At least half a dozen pizza establishments operate in Charlottesville, and the number of Chinese restaurants rivals this. All are thriving thanks to hungry students. Especially popular are the restaurants that deliver because students now don't have to walk insane distances to obtain food.
Students treat delivery men as messiahs and tip accordingly.
Two of the biggest local restaurant chains are Papa John's Pizza and Gumby's Pizza. The only problem with the restaurant answer is that, unbeknownst to some upper-class preppie students, eating at restaurants requires money. Consequently, all students attending UVA, regardless of how much money their parents have, are constantly and completely broke. No aspect of college life dominates lifestyles the way food does. With the exception of cheap beer , all edible forms of food and drink are in scarce supply and high demand.