It’s 8:05 in the morning. Your stomach’s growling, your eyes can’t seem to keep themselves open more than a crack, and you’re already late for your first class. What are you to eat?
You don’t have time to sit and eat breakfast in Barone, and the Stag cannot offer you much more than a bagel and some rather boring coffee. If only there was another alternative…
The Jazzman’s Café, located on the third floor of the Campus Center, will soon open, giving students that other option.
The café will offer a variety of coffees, teas, donuts and pastries, as well as sandwiches and salads, making it a convenient place to grab a coffee and a sweet breakfast treat on the way to class.
“I pass through the BCC at least twice a day and I think the coffee bar is in a very useful and central location,” said Chris Dulude, ’06.
According to Jim Fitzpatrick, assistant vice president of student services, plans for the café started last April, and have been almost a year in the making.
“We were looking for something to jazz up the operation; something to give it a spark,” Fitzpatrick said. Sodhexho presented the school with several ideas for a new eatery, including a grill, an Italian pizzeria, and a coffee bar.
“We felt that, for the location, the coffee bar seemed the best
most natural,” Fitzpatrick said.
Jazzman’s is a new Sodexho operation that the company is trying to install in a number of colleges.
“As far as I know,” Fitzpatrick said, “we are the first to have the full cafe.”
Jazzman’s will open as soon as the town building inspector comes to take a look at it.
“Sodexho is ready, we’re ready, the bakers are already baking! Now, it’s just a question of when the building inspector can get here. Hopefully it will be by Friday at the latest,” Fitzpatrick said. “We have our fingers crossed. We’re anxious to start trying to compete with and beat Starbucks.”
If nothing else, the new café will at least be more accessible to students than Starbucks.
Jazzman’s Café will be open from 9 a.m. to midnight Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 2 a.m. on Fridays, 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. on Saturdays, and 11 a.m. to midnight on Sundays.
Fitzpatrick said that if the cafe does well enough, more hours may be added.
Students seem to be looking forward to the grand opening as well.
“I think it’s a great idea,” said Meghan Sullivan, ’06. “There’s more of a selection than just the regular coffee and hot chocolate that they have in the Stag, and it’s a nice place to sit while you’re waiting to meet someone.”
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