by Colleen Casner | Jul 14, 2014 | News Slider
Lipscomb’s Auntie Anne’s Pretzels is no more, paving the way for a new campus dining option. The famous pretzel chain’s campus location has closed, allowing new dining spot Au Bon Pain to open in the lobby of the Student Activity Center, according to Wolcott Fary, General Manager of Lipscomb Dining Services. Fary says that in order for Au Bon Pain to open up shop, another on-campus dining location had to close. Auntie Anne’s was chosen because it had not appealed to Lipscomb students as much as the dining office had expected. Overshadowed by more popular student center offerings such as Chick-fil-A and Starbucks, Auntie Anne’s was not making much of a profit on the few pretzels it sold. The pretzel stop opened in 2012 and was located in the Bennett Campus Center. With a menu featuring hot and cold sandwiches, salads, coffee, fresh-baked bread and pastries, smoothies, different kinds of soup and entrees ranging from pasta to Indian dishes, Au Bon Pain’s large selection will make this new addition second only to the dining room for the number of food options. A health-conscious chain, Au Bon Pain focuses on creating healthy foods from quality ingredients. It posts the ingredients in all of its foods on its website. The franchise’s second location in Nashville, Au Bon Pain will feature extra seating to accommodate students in a larger SAC lobby. Au Bon Pain will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Starbucks renovation to begin later in the month In the meantime, Starbucks is getting a new look with a renovation later this month. The back wall and counter will...
by Emily Snell | May 13, 2012 | News Slider, Sports
Renovations to the student center are only a small aspect of the construction changes occurring at Lipscomb this summer. Tom Wood, director of campus enhancement, said the university will be spending about $11 million on new construction and renovations to existing areas. The list of construction and renovation work includes moving the bookstore and Uncle Dave’s to the lower level of the student center, developing a lounge area and installing a Zebis deli and Auntie Anne’s pretzels in the current bookstore space, updating McFarland by painting and furnishing the lobby and creating a “dean’s suite,” adding air conditioning in the SAC and McQuiddy gyms, creating office spaces in the basement of Burton, finishing the Cool Springs campus, installing a new track for the high school and university track teams, adding an academic resource center in the library basement and completing the nursing building. Wood said the bookstore will move to the Arlo’s location on the lower level of the student center, creating additional food service space in the current book store area. Wood said the new set up will have Auntie Anne’s and Zebis and a more private eating/lounge space. “It offers some additional food service area,” he said. “I think a lot of students have said they would like a place that is semi-private where they can have some booths and things like that where they can have a little bit of privacy instead of being out in the middle of a room some place.” In the next year or so, Wood said the university plans to extend the Starbucks porch area around the rest of the building....
