Vital Signs Cafe to be improved based on survey feedback
Scott Hall's Vital Signs Cafe will be changing its menu as well as its hours based on feedback from nearly 400 responses to an online survey conducted earlier this year. The cafeteria's serving area will be closed from Friday, July 23, through Monday, July 26, for improvements. Limited food options will be available in the cafeteria's seating area; in addition, a barbecue will be held outside on Friday, weather permitting.
When the cafe reopens on Tuesday, July 27, its hours will be 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. for breakfast; 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. for lunch; and 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., at which time prepared salads and sandwiches, burgers, desserts and Freshens Smoothies will be available.
New menu items will include Starbucks "We Proudly Brew" drip coffee; quarter-pound burgers and cheeseburgers; grilled chicken sandwiches; portabello mushroom sandwiches; garden burgers; standard fries (which will be kept hot by improved heating lamps); and a featured grilled sandwich of the day. Popular entrees, such as fried chicken and fish, still will be available.
A "Grab & Go" station will be installed with prepared grill items for those in a hurry. The entree station will be converted into a premium made-to-order salad and sandwich station with a healthy menu of featured items, and the soup station will now serve four kinds of soup daily as well as premium rolls. Moe's Own Pizza Station will remain, offering individual pizzas, and an open-air cooler will be stocked with upscale salads and sandwiches for those who don't have time to wait for a made-to-order item. In addition, the cafeteria will offer whole fruit, fresh-baked brownies and cookies, and Freshens Smoothies, which will be available in the serving line in the near future.
To allow for these improvements and the increasing costs of food, minor price adjustments -- the first in almost two years -- will be implemented July 27. The cafeteria, which is not subsidized by the School of Medicine or Wayne State University, is operated by AVI Foodsystems.