The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Services Committee met late last night to finalize their proposal for an uphill take-out dining facility in their upcoming meeting with Director of Dining and Business Services Patti Lee Klos.
The meeting with Klos will take place this Wednesday during open block, and will cover both dining and bookstore changes.
The new eatery is planned to replace No-Name Caf?©, which was phased-out earlier this semester.
The Services Committee and Klos have worked together over the course of several meetings to concretize plans for the new eatery, which will tentatively open at the beginning of the fall 2005 semester.
"Overwhelming responses on [TCU Senate] Web surveys say we need weekends and weekend nights for take-out," TCU Senator Aaron Miller said.
Based on student opinion, Klos and the committee members intend to keep the eatery open late.
"[Klos] would keep it open until three a.m. [if] she could find students to staff it," TCU Senator Ed Kalafarski said. "She's actually very receptive to student opinion."
High on the Services Committee's list of priorities is deciding what types of food will be offered. "We have to push for, at the very least, everything that No-Name had," Kalafarski said. The new eatery will have, at the very least, salads, wraps, soups and smoothies," he said.
"[Klos] has talked of a diner theme," Kalafarski said, but disagreement arose over the nature of such a theme. "[The] diner [image] is not a good idea for healthy food," TCU Senator Zach Landau said.
The final location of the eatery has not yet been set, but Klos is in discussions with Vice President of Operations John Roberto on the subject.
"We want it to be on the Hill. It's going to be incorporated [into an existing structure], it won't be a new building," Kalafarski said. "We want to kick Telefund out," he joked.
Wednesday's meeting will be the last of the semester between Klos and the Services Committee. Past joint projects include additions to the Merchants on Points (MOPS) plan and the extension of Dewick's dining hours.
Klos has also been working to "amp up the atmosphere of Hotung," according to Kalafarski. "Basically she wants to buy more big-screen TV's."
