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GOOD EATS 2: The Scrubs Café Experience

Our Student Writer Dines Out in Health Sciences District

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Allyson Tsuji in Scrubs Cafe
The author inside the delicious (and spacious) Scrubs Café in the Health Sciences District. (Karin Higgins/ÍêÃÀÌåÓý photo)

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Welcome to our new Scrubs Café! From the brightly colored sign panel over the door, to the squeaks of shoes on shiny floors, to the smell of oven-hot pizza — everything about this place is fresh and inviting.

The university built the café at the same time as the Veterinary Medicine Student Services and Administration Center next door, across from the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. The café’s development coincided with ÍêÃÀÌåÓý’s takeover of campus dining operations from Sodexo, and thus Scrubs is the first new campus-operated restaurant. It opened in April, .

I met up with Kraig Brady, director of Hospitality and Dining Services, for lunch at Scrubs one recent day. I left the bustling cafe with a satisfied stomach and a full Scrubs experience to tell.

When I walked in, I first noticed the wide windows that give customers a view of the back patio, with the arboretum as a backdrop. Then I smelled the food — an inviting spread of spinach and artichoke pasta bake,