Dining Information (Fens Closing 5/14 for Renovation)

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Posted by Web Team, May 09, 2008
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The menu for the next day will be advertised in each day’s daily announcements. This will include the meal selections at Bartol and the soup selections at Meyers. Advertise hours each establishment is open for business:
- Java City: 7:30 AM – Noon, Monday - Friday
- Meyers Café: 7:30 AM – 6:00 PM, Monday – Thursday. Meyers will close at 3 PM on Fridays.
- Bartol: 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, and 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM. Bartol is open seven (7) days a week.

You will be able to order sandwiches on-line until two hours before you want the sandwich. You will be able to create your own sandwich using a variety of options. The website is http://my.simmons.edu/services/business/dining/order/. Patrons will be able to pick up their orders at the newly expanded Meyers Café in a line dedicated to this service.
Folks will be able to purchase entrée items in microwavable containers at Meyers Cafe. A variety of entrée items will be available every day. Items can be warmed in the microwave to be made available in Meyers Café or back at individual offices.
Soup will be available for purchase at Meyers.
The Kotzen Room will be available for community dining as frequently as possible. On most days when the Kotzen is not available, you will be directed to a place where you can dine.
The Kotzen Patio will be available for dining. There will be some construction and some folks may choose not to eat outside, but we will have the space available with patio tables.
The third floor Lefavour Patio will be available for dining.
Certain foods will be planned for specific days of the week on the Kotzen Patio. You will pay for your meal at Meyers Café, and then go to the Kotzen Patio where the following will be happening:
- Tuesday will be pizza day.
- Wednesday will be Sundae Day (Tickets can be purchased for $3. A make your own sundae bar will be set up from 12 – 1:30.)
- Thursday will be BBQ day.

We are offering a buy 4 / get 2 free meal package to promote dining at Bartol. The first day you go to Bartol you will pay for your meal and will receive a card with six meal logos on it; the first logo will be punched. You will pay at the door for their next three meals; each time, your card will be punched. When you have 4 punches, the next two meals will be free. In the end, each all-you-can-eat meal will cost $4.33.
The non-resident meal plan is available for purchase to all faculty and staff. Commuter students, students living in off-campus dorms, and faculty and staff have the following meal plans available for purchase:
- 30 meals with $50 in Meal Plan Points: $180
- 20 meals with $350 in Meal Plan Points: $430
- 10 meals with $400 in Meal Plan Points: $430
Meals can be redeemed at Bartol Hall where “a meal” provides entry to the all-you-care-to-eat food stations. (At the Fens – when it opens – a “meal” provides $5.50 worth of credit toward your purchase.) Meal Plan Points may be redeemed at any Dining Services location on campus.
Bartol will have theme days and advertise them ahead of time:
- Mexican Day
- Asian Day
- Soul Food Day

Java City will remain open to purchase coffee and products currently able to be purchased.
The expanded Meyers café will have a line and cash register (one of two) dedicated to the purchase of coffee and premade products only.