2008 Woodie Awards
New dining options for every taste
Kristiana Silva
Issue date: 1/7/08 Section: CampusCenter
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Sagamore Staff
Whether you are in the mood for a burger and fries, a healthy green salad, or a warm bowl of pasta, you are sure to find it at the new Campus Center food court. The new dining location, scheduled to be fully operational in January 2008, will offer something for every palate.
The Campus Center will feature six different restaurants, two coffee shops and a grab-and-go convenience store. The main food court, which will be located on the first floor of the building, will include: Coyote Jacks, Wild Greens, Chick-fil-A, Mama Leone's and Bamboo Asian.
In hopes to create a more efficient checkout system, customers choose what food they want and bring it to a central area with various checkout counters to pay.
The first floor will also feature a Starbucks, located inside the Barnes & Noble bookstore.
Outtakes, which offers ready-to-go salads, soups, sandwiches and beverages is located just to the north of the elevator banks in the middle of the building.
The second floor offers a Caribou Coffee shop and Mondo Subs.
Chartwells Higher Education, a division of Compass Group, provides dining services for over 230 colleges and universities. It has been a partner at IUPUI since 2002. Chartwells is responsible for all restaurants and food services on campus, with the exception of Starbucks. Barnes & Noble bookstore will manage Starbucks and the vending machines.
"By building the Campus Center we are giving Chartwells an opportunity to better serve our campus," says Dan Maxwell, Campus Center director. "Chartwells is doing the best they can, but existing facility is not a state-of-art. Chartwells will provide a great eating experience that will begin to change attitudes about food services on campus."
Stacy Blanton, marketing director of Chartwells at IUPUI, says Chartwells eateries worked directly with the university in deciding what brands would be offered in the Campus Center. All of the restaurant concepts are heavily branded and offer quality products.
"The new concepts and quality that stands behind them will draw people in. They will be happy to have the selection we're going to give them. We'll be able to offer hamburgers, fries, Chinese; all of those foods will be new," says Blanton.
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