November 6, 2002

Culinary arts students to run

new BYU-Idaho restaurant

 

 

            Café Déjeuner, a lunchtime, student-operated restaurant at Brigham Young University-Idaho, will open the week of Nov. 12-15.

            Created by culinary arts students in the College of Home and Family Education, the café will offer lunch service only, as indicated by its French name. While patrons enjoy cuisine from around the world, students will assume responsibility for every detail of the operation from menu selection and production to table settings and business promotion.

            “It’s one thing to prepare food for oneself and to learn it and theory from a book – you can learn wonderful things that way,” says Jeff Hamblin, a home and family education faculty member. “But students can’t really understand the process unless they participate in it. We’ll now be purchasing more food and producing more food on a daily basis. Students will be able to understand how the process all works as well as the type of work it requires. Being able to do it on daily basis requires a different level of dedication and skill.”

            All food will be made fresh daily. The menu will include starters of soups, salads and appetizers. Entrees will vary from seafood to wild game, and desserts will include cheesecakes, creme brulee and ice creams.

            While the menu will be a la carte Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, Thursdays will be buffet style. Foods from three or four areas throughout the world — including Africa, the Caribbean, China, Greece, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Middle East and Southeast Asia — will be highlighted each Thursday during the fall semester. Beginning in January, Thursdays will feature regional American menus.

            Café Déjeuner is located on the third floor of the Clarke Building in Room 320. Meals are offered Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Last seating is at 12:30 p.m.

            To make reservations or check the menu of the day, call 496-1388 between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. # # #

 

 

 

  


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