Pros
Operating an establishment on a college campus that is only required to be open when the university students are in session, allows for vacation opportunities during desired holiday times like Christmas and Thanksgiving. Many other food service establishments such as restaurants would be open around and on holidays.
Cons
Many dining facilities are required to be open 7 days a week and offer all 3 meals per day (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) to accommodate students that live on campus and have no other options for meals. Often many dining facilities are now being open for a fourth (late night) meal option. Being open for this long requires more hours of operation and more time to be spent at work for management, managing the operation(s). Not ever closing during operational times (ie. school semesters), can cause a poor work/life balance as off time is usually required to be spent at work keeping or catching up with a ever growing amount of paperwork and personnel issues.