Monday, March 28, 1983
Daily Nebraskan
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Editor's note: This is the third article in a four-part
series on the Nebraska Union food services.
By Ward W. Triplet! Ill
The Colonial Dining Room has been a source of both
pride and frustration for Union Board members and
union staff officials. Despite what Ronald Pushcar,
director of food services at the union, calls the "best
salad bar extravaganza in town, the CDR still is not
attracting a major proportion of its most likelv customer
group - students."
"We need to make students more aware of it,"
Nebraska Union Director Daryl Swanson said. "I think
that students sometimes come near (the S3.50 CDR
all-you-can-eat price) . . .going through the Union
Square."
The soup and sandwich service, open from 1 1 30 a an.
to 1 :30 pan., is virtually the only one of its kind in the
downtown area.
For the S3.50 entry price, the customer can serve him
or herself from more than SO salad entrees, including
three greens. Fruit cocktail, straw berry and chocolate
mousse, oriental fried noodles and marinated
beans are among the extras included. Four meats - liam,
turkey, roast beef and corned beef - are available along
with Swiss, husker or sharp cheese for making sandwiches
on rye or wliite bread. Steak soup and a soup-of-the-day
also are available.
"It's highly possible to go in there three different
days and fix three totally different salads without
repeating yourself," Swanson said.
The CDR was formally a sit -dow n-and -be -served
business but seemed to attract only university
administrators and staff. While the CDR developed
steady customers, the room w as too much of a financial
burden to bear that way, Swanson said.
"I had some reluctance to change," he said. "I knew
there was a certain group that would object to any
change, and that any change would have to be
permanent."
Pushcar suested the soup and salad format. The
room closed for one week last March and, working under
a $3,000 limit, opened the next week with the new
format.
The fixed price was the last touch Pushcar suggested.
Tliis way checks will be predictable from day to day and
not run lower in actual amount like those in the old CDR
often did, Swanson said.
"There's both good and bad in that," Swanson said.
"But, basically, it's done what we wanted to do."
The CDR has been hosts to guests involved in food
service, Pushcar said, and all of them have said it is an
excellent service.
"There are two areas here I feel very proud about,"
he said. "The first would be the (Union) Square, with
that being the first project w eVe had to build from the
ground up. The other is the quality service vveVe been
able to give in the Colonial Dining Room."
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