This year, Snack Bar is introducing a new menu item: The Weekly Special. The special will vary every week with other food options that Sodexo offers. Sodexo is the company that provides Snack Bar with all of their food and ingredients.
Snack Bar department manager Carley Prince noticed, “Since I’ve been here, we’ve always had the same meals and I’m pretty sure since before that we’ve always had the same meals.” She talked to her supervisors about the lack of variety and they collectively decided to try out the weekly special.
Supervisor of Dining and Hospitality and Snack Bar Joseph Piechowski had a lot to do with the menu. In the Blackburn Announcements, the list of future weekly specials is listed in order. After all of the specials have been offered, the list repeats itself. “All the weekly specials are meal exchanges so they come with the fries or tots and a drink,” Prince added.
Snack Bar has a weekly special for the students to enjoy this year
For the next couple of weeks, the menu items will include chicken patty parmesan, chicken fries, walking tacos and much more. Prince describes it as “a good hit for us, and more variety for the students.” Instead of having the same handful of meals every week, this is an effort to branch out and offer something different.
So far, Prince has noticed a positive reaction from students, although it has only been available for a short time. Freshman Kyleigh Presley tried the first special of the week, the chicken nuggets. “They were fire,” Presley reviewed. “I’m glad there’s a variety to the same things I see on the menu every day.”
Customers eating at Snack Bar
While this is only a trial run, the number of sales for these particular items will determine if the weekly special will stay. If students are responding positively to these items, the sales will prove it.