By the time students return for the fall semester, a familiar siren will be singing from the heart of the TCU campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Union Grounds \u2014 the longtime campus coffee shop tucked into the Brown-Lupton University Union, affectionately known as the BLUU \u2014 has officially been retired. In its place, construction crews are installing something far more caffeinated: a full-service Starbucks. When doors open in August, Horned Frogs will find the same lineup they\u2019d expect from any corner-store location \u2014 iced matchas, Sous Vide Egg Bites, Pink Drinks, merch drops, mobile orders, and the endless pursuit of bonus stars.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s a big value-add for the campus,\u201d Miles Oller, director of facilities for Student Affairs, mentioned in a TCU news report. \u201cWe\u2019re continuing to grow and push what\u2019s next. Starbucks is a nationally recognized brand, a lot of people buy into their food and their product, and we\u2019ll be able to offer it in a good location in the center of campus.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
TCU\u2019s version won\u2019t be entirely out of the box. The remodel includes subtle nods to campus identity \u2014 brick columns, purple-fabric chairs, art peppered with lavender accents, and florals that tip a hat to favorite campus blooms. The reimagined space will seat about forty and offer a mix of booths, tables, and bar tops \u2014 room enough for cramming before chem lab or zoning out between classes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The coffee shop update is just the start. Following December commencement, Market Square \u2014 the university\u2019s central dining hub \u2014 will begin its own major transformation. The redesigned space will borrow inspiration from the new East End Dining facility at Gutierrez Hall, segmenting the cafeteria into distinct, chef-driven food stations, with menus as varied as the student body. To-go options will also expand, and a year-round covered patio will open up outdoor seating.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Oller described Starbucks, Market Square, Gutierrez Hall, and even the Amazon cashier-less market as interconnected parts of an ongoing reimagining of dining on campus. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to bring something new to the campus community every year,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By the time students return for the fall semester, a familiar siren will be singing from the heart…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,9361,15713,2105,7371,7372,9730,39386,6214,10077,358,7453,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-52788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-campus","10":"tag-coffee","11":"tag-food-and-drink","12":"tag-fort-worth","13":"tag-fortworth","14":"tag-fwtx-staff","15":"tag-horned-frogs","16":"tag-students","17":"tag-tcu","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-top-story","20":"tag-tx","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114826228732760918","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}