I’m curious why you think my university needed to force students into a meal plan and have a massive workforce to run the dining halls, when the private sector

I’m curious why you think my university needed to force students into a meal plan and have a massive workforce to run the dining halls, when the private sector could feed students better food for less. Or why did the university need a whole administrative department to cater to the “needs” of every kind of minority you can think of (one department per kind of minority)?