BREAKING NEWS: FACULTY EATERY TO CLOSE

An inside source with knowledge of the University of Georgia Food Services empire has confirmed that the Faculty Eatery will close around June 1, 2009. The source said the closing was due to multiple reasons, including persistent financial losses and health code issues. 

The replacement space will be on the fourth floor of the new Tate II center, scheduled to open in 2009. The new eatery will forego the oak paneling and cathedral ceilings in favor of an open floor space. 

The third floor of Tate II will also feature a food court, complete with a Barberitos and an Inoko Express-like stand. 

Fears are already spreading that this will hasten the retirement of Prof. Conrad Fink.

New Menu!

As expected, the Faculty Center has changed their menu. And the first report says it is more than palatable. 

Handed out the course evaluations to my students and told them I'd be back in 30 minutes. Dashed across the street to find two other regulars staring at the menu board. I snuck by them, grabbed a tray and sidled up to the stainless. I ordered a sausage and peppers over rice dish, grabbed a little cherry cobbler and hit the checkout line.

One advantage to new menus and new people - she couldn't find the button for my meal, so she rang it up as two side dishes and I saved about a buck. (Which I would normally point out, but remember the help had issues making the right breakfast sandwich a few weeks ago and then overcharging, so I figured it balanced that out nicely.)

Sausage had just a little spice to it, the peppers were just about perfectly soggy. Rice was rice, hard to screw up unless you're being sabotaged on Top Chef or something. 

Sat with Willett, who allegedly retired last semester but is teaching a Maymester course, as well as a class for the art school in the fall on the history of graphic design. (I suggested that would be easy - first there were pencils, then there were Macs. He said he'd enroll me in the class as I needed some help in the area ...) I suspect his "retirement" was just a ploy to get some free cake.

He is a smart man.

All Quiet on the Southern Front

Not much going on today, not many people around campus so The Eatery is doing a little recruiting ...

Astroturfing

Learn something new every single day around here. 

We learned that Russell is manipulating the poll - every time she finds a new computer, she votes again for Sweetser. In the PR world this is astroturfing - a fake grassroots uprising. 

Go figure.

The Remains of the Meal

They Want Our Opinion!

Really, they do - via an online survey specifically about our faculty dining hall.