Posted on May 16, 2014
DFAC breakfast. Do you consider it the best deal around?
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You only pay $2.55 for breakfast in the DFACs. Your choices are more than plentiful, considering what all you can choose from each morning. The same choices at restaurants would cost you approx. $10-$14. If you don't eat there, you buy something at the Shoppette which equates to usually around $9-$10. If anything, you just bring in your own breakfast from home or don't eat.
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Sir, I think the DFAC breakfast is a great deal for all Soldiers. Pretty much all you can eat, for a cheap price, What irritates me is when Soldiers will pay $8.00 for a burrito at the GUT truck, but not support the DFAC.....I never understand!
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CPT Jacob Swartout
MSG Rocker, the price is great. The only challenge is to beat everyone after PT so that you won't stand in a long line. I haven't seen GUT trucks at my last two duty stations. I used to see them all the time. I guess that is a good thing.
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If my current assignment had a DFAC, I'd be eating there.
I will never take a DFAC for granted again.
I will never take a DFAC for granted again.
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I got out before paying at the DFAC was apparently a thing. Breakfast at the DFAC was one of the few things I looked forward to eating.
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Short answer: Yes.
I feel my current DFAC is probably the best breakfast I've seen in my career thus far. It's usually a place to bond after PT and discuss what we're going to get done that day, month, or year as well.
That being said, it would be helpful to either automate charges for personnel not on meal cards, or make it divisible by an easier amount. I would still call it the best deal if they raised the price to $3.00, and then I wouldn't have to sweat change. Limited places to put quarters and dimes in PT shorts. That's as close to a complaint as you'll get from me.
I feel my current DFAC is probably the best breakfast I've seen in my career thus far. It's usually a place to bond after PT and discuss what we're going to get done that day, month, or year as well.
That being said, it would be helpful to either automate charges for personnel not on meal cards, or make it divisible by an easier amount. I would still call it the best deal if they raised the price to $3.00, and then I wouldn't have to sweat change. Limited places to put quarters and dimes in PT shorts. That's as close to a complaint as you'll get from me.
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CPT Jacob Swartout Yes, I definitely consider the breakfast meal at the DFAC as the most cost effective and usually tastiest meal!
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SSG Jeremy Siebenaller
It depends! Are we talking Ft. Polk (509th DFAC) or are we talking Ft.Bragg (Any DFAC)?! Huge difference! Some of the things that were served at Polk....I don't know that I would consider actual FOOD. And some of the things at Bragg, I was really surprised that I was eating at a DFAC and not a decent establishment...
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The DFAC is a really good place to get breakfast for a good price. Most people I know don't go due to time constraints though. It is faster to go to the shopette or a drive thru on their way in than leave early and stop at the DFAC.
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That's so true. I don't consider it the best deal around because saving $2 isn't worth being late for work call.
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CPT Jacob Swartout
There are times when I can't go because the line is almost to the parking lot. So I buy something cheap (energy bar) and a drink at the Shoppette.
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The issue, at least as my previous unit, was not whether it was a good deal (which it is)...but rather if you could get in, eat, and get out in time to report to duty. Many installations, due to fiscal restraints, are closing and consolidating DFAC facilities and the staff that run them. The 2nd and 3rd order effects are longer lines and slower service.
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CPT Jacob Swartout
That is everywhere for sure. Too many times have we just kept on driving by when you saw the line way out the door at the DFAC.
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BY FAR the best deal out there. $2.65 for eggs, bacon, toast, waffles, pancakes ETC. Bout the only thing I look forward to when I have staff duty.
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I've always said the same thing... and even in a 'not so good' DFAC, breakfast is still good. To me the omelets were always the best part.
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Of course it is the best deal around. You can barely get an orange juice and a biscuit for 2.55. However, some people are really against eating in the DFAC because they ahd one bad meal back in '84. I eat there for breakfast maybe 3 times a week, but I still bring my food in most days.
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Thirty-five some years ago one of my Drill Sergeants told me it's real hard for an Army cook to mess up breakfast.
Longer ago than that, USMC breakfasts had made to order omelets and the rest (including bacon) was self service - don't take more than you can eat though.
Later in my career, time was the issue. Rarely missed an opportunity to sit down and eat good food cheap.
Longer ago than that, USMC breakfasts had made to order omelets and the rest (including bacon) was self service - don't take more than you can eat though.
Later in my career, time was the issue. Rarely missed an opportunity to sit down and eat good food cheap.
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