In a move no public affairs officer thought they'd ever have to do, Dining Services has released the breakdown of the cost of Nutella, and apparently it's not $5,000. On Tuesday, Columbia College Student Council representatives told Spectator that Dining Services director Vicki Dunn told them that the weekly tab for the nutty spread was running close to $5K. Dining declined to provide specific numbers for that article.
But after the national news media picked up the story last night, the University has changed course, claiming that the cost of Nutella during the first week it was served in February was about $2,500. Since then, the price tag has climbed down significantly, to about $450 per week.
We've asked Dining what could have led to the $5,000 figure. In the mean time, read the press release, titled—we're not joking—“NUTELLA-GATE EXPOSED: It's a Smear! Says Columbia," after the jump.
