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Crossroads Café is undergoing a redesign, with the addition of a pizza oven and a refurbished coffee bar.
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Café at the Crossroads
By Jessica Robles
A latte with your pepperoni? Showing it has the modern student’s tastes at heart, the university is diversifying the food and space at Crossroads, University Center’s student-run café, with the addition of a pizza oven and refurbishment of its coffee counter.
Changes will include a new décor, designed by restaurant designer and Hospitality Management advisory board member Bob Puccini, improved lighting, and a new stairway on the café’s east side, connecting Crossroads with the second floor’s World Fare.
Puccini said he envisions a lot more light and color for the remodeled Crossroads, including a new floor with arcs of intersecting and overlapping carpet color, columns wrapped in blue metal finished with swirling designs, and carbon plastic pendant light fixtures with colorful etchings. “It will be a radical improvement to switch from florescent to incandescent lighting,” Puccini said. “You’ll actually see for a change. It will make everything seem richer.”
The changes will help the space cater to club functions, said Marcie Takumi, ASUSF business manager. The permanent stage area will become portable to allow more room for shared seating between the coffee bar and pizza counter. As an additional (perhaps necessary) service, the pizza counter will also deliver on campus in the evenings. “We’re expecting a lot more business,” Takumi said.
Food service provider Bon Appetit will take over management of Crossroads but it will remain student-run. Construction should be completed by October.
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