Although some here seem to hold the opinion of 'we told you this would happen', the fact is it needn't have been so.
All I wanted as a liver in was to pay for the meals that I actually ate and not be charged for services that I did not receive. Simple as that.
I did NOT say that I wanted Mess catering to be contractorised, put open to tender or tied in with the leisure aspects of the Stn. I didn't even say that I wanted the meals that I did take to remain at the same prices.
I certainly didn't want batting to be reduced to once a week and every meal time to be an admin nightmare of form-filling, protein versus carbohydrate and Servers ticking of the number of portions remaining.
Oh - and I DEFINITELY didn't want them to simply keep putting out the same cold desserts on the trolley until some poor bugger finally gives in and bends their spoon digging into 10 day old Angel Delight!