{"id":10667,"date":"2013-02-04T16:11:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T22:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bemidjistate.edu\/bsutoday\/?p=10667"},"modified":"2021-11-01T15:16:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T20:16:00","slug":"einstein-bros-hmu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2013\/02\/04\/einstein-bros-hmu\/","title":{"rendered":"Einstein Bros\u00ae Bagels Opens in Hobson Memorial Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after the spring semester got underway, Einstein Bros<sup>&reg;<\/sup> Bagels opened for business in the Hobson Memorial Union. Jan. 16 served as a staff-training day, which gave students and faculty a sneak peek at the coffee, bagels, sandwiches that the venue offers to the campus community, before the shop opened for business on Jan. 17.<\/p>\n<p>Operating as an independent brand under the ownership of the Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, Einstein Bros<sup>&reg;<\/sup> Bagels has over 750 locations throughout the United States.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second of two new national-brand food vendors to open in the Union this spring; Papa Johns Pizza is the Union&rsquo;s new pizza vendor, and its location was open for the first day of spring classes on Jan. 14.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The decision to bring Einstein Bros&nbsp;Bagels to BSU was made based upon research conducted on campus by ARAMARAK, our dining provider, and was a joint venture by ARAMARK and the university,&rdquo; said Mary Tosch, director of the Hobson Memorial Union. &ldquo;It was a three-year process to bring Einstein Bros&nbsp;and Papa John&rsquo;s to BSU. &nbsp; Research was conducted, along with student feedback, to determine the needs of the students.&nbsp; The research and feedback was clear &mdash; students wanted national brands on campus.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We looked at how different national brands worked on campuses similar to Bemidji State&rsquo;s size, and we also wanted to complement our existing dining program,&rdquo; Tosch said. &ldquo;The national brands are part of the dining program, and are also something new and exciting to show potential students during tours.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The addition of Einstein Bros&nbsp;Bagels has been well-received by BSU students.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I absolutely love it,&rdquo; said Tiffany Lamb, a junior in biology. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m so glad we finally have something like it on campus.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after the spring semester got underway, Einstein Bros&reg; Bagels opened for business in the Hobson Memorial Union. Jan. 16 served as a staff-training day, which gave students and faculty a sneak peek at the coffee, bagels, sandwiches that the venue offers to the campus community, before the shop opened for business on Jan. 17. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17180,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10667\/revisions\/17180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}