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<\/a>The menu includes pork chops with apple chutney; tilapia puttanesca, which is a spicy sauce made of garlic, onions, anchovies, chili peppers, black olives and capers; chicken piccata; wild rice with mushrooms; garden vegetable soup; cheesy broccoli casserole; and tossed greens with gorgonzola, walnuts and pears.<\/p>\nThe Ready for the World Caf\u00e9 is open from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. each Monday through Thursday in the Hermitage Room on the third floor of the University Center.<\/p>\n
Diners pay $11 for the all-you-can-eat buffet or $9 for a plate of food to carry out.<\/p>\n
Faculty and staff can use ARAMARK’s new UT Reward Card to receive a 15 percent discount at the caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n
Students enrolled in Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism (HRT) 445, the advanced food production and service management class, plan and operate the caf\u00e9. They take turns serving as the caf\u00e9 manager. ARAMARK, UT’s provider of dining services, prepares the food.<\/p>\n
The caf\u00e9 manager for March 22-25 is Chris Hegseth, of Knoxville, a junior in hotel, restaurant and tourism management. He grew up in Sevierville and has worked at Dollywood’s Grandstand Caf\u00e9 for five years. He also has worked at special events, including the Cystic Fibrosis Wine on the Water fundraiser. His goal is to own his own restaurant.<\/p>\n
Hegseth has dubbed the days of the week “Sweet 16 Monday,” “Elite Eight Tuesday,” “Final Four Wednesday” and “Championship Thursday,” and he says anyone who eats at the caf\u00e9 during the week can enter the raffle to win the autographed basketball. The drawing will be held on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The caf\u00e9 also will feature live jazz on Thursday.<\/p>\n
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C O N T A C T :<\/strong><\/p>\n Amy Blakely (865-974-5034, amy.blakely@tennessee.edu)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KNOXVILLE — In honor of the Vols’ and Lady Vols’ participation in the NCAA tournaments, the Ready for the World Caf\u00e9 is celebrating March Madness the week of March 22 with its international buffet and a raffle for a basketball autographed by coach Pat Summitt. The menu includes pork chops with apple chutney; tilapia puttanesca, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":332,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}