Given how much Columbia students like Nutella, I have only one question.

When will New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg propose a ban on it?

Cecilia Reyes of The Columbia Spectator broke the story.

Nutella in Ferris Booth costs Dining $5,000 per week, in part due to dining hall thievery

It seems like undergrads have a sweet tooth—and it’s costing Dining $5,000 per week in Nutella.

Since Dining started offering the sweet spread in Ferris Booth Commons last month, administrators have observed a high demand for Nutella—up to 100 pounds per day. But that seemly sum could be due in part to students stealing the chocolate-hazelnut topping.

“The demand [for Nutella] has been greater than originally expected,” Vicki Dunn, executive director of Dining Services, said in an email. “Students have been filling cups of Nutella to-go in Ferris Booth Commons and taking the full jars out of John Jay, which means we’re going through product faster than anticipated.”

Dunn told Columbia College Student Council representatives that the total spent on Nutella came to $5,000 the week it was first offered in Ferris the week of Feb. 11, representative Peter Bailinson, CC ’16 and a Spectator outreach and development associate, said. Dunn “couldn’t really believe it either, just how much they were going through the stuff,” Bailinson said. At that rate, Dining would spend $250,000 on the product in one year.