The Hornets Nest has gone through an overhaul.
Aramark, Lyndon State College’s food supplier, has made some changes to the snack bar itself and the snack bar menu in the student center.
“It’s simplified, it is limited a little bit,” said Adam Vigue, Food Service Director. “At one point we had four different kinds of fries and we weren’t selling four different kinds. We were selling two kinds better than anything else so it is simplified more than it was.”
There has been some confusion as to what is still on the menu and what is not, like mozzarella sticks.
“We need to market that a little bit better,” he said. “So we need to put up some signs, especially for the mozzarella sticks. Our menu boards are a lot better than they were last year. They are digital, but they changed a few things around so that is the biggest issue. We just need to get it out there more about the stuff we have in the back.”
The decision to abridge the menu came from Aramark.
“It was a corporate decision; they did it for a lot of other schools too,” said Vigue. “They called it a ‘grill refresh’, they totally changed over the grill, the menu and everything like that so I had some say on what to put on there, but they wanted to simplify it.”
But VIgue agreed that it was time for a change.
“ That menu hasn’t been changed in like 10 years,” he said. “Even our coolers were out of whack; we were offering every flavor of everything so a lot of it was being thrown away.”
There are more changes on the way.
“I want to change the deli menu too,” he said. “It has some weird stuff on there that was brought in before I got here. We want to change things up once in a while, but don’t want to get rid of things that are big sellers.”
Vigue knows that not everyone will be happy with the cuts.
“Our goal is not to make less options, but we want to be realistic too,” he said.