Originally billed as a late-night, healthy alternative to traditional after-hours snacks, Taylor Place’s Devil’s Greens has slowly shifted to serving a more expansive menu with less of a premium on the nutritional value of what they serve.
The full salad bar with vegetables and fruits still dominates one counter, but meal options like popcorn chicken and ice cream are also available, and apparently more popular.
Future meal options are coming to the bright green, tiled eatery in the ground floor of Taylor Place.
Early next semester, Devil’s Greens will get a burrito bar and will also begin serving frozen yogurt and breakfast-for-dinner options, including pancakes and eggs.
“Students were asking for something else later (at night),” said Rosario Lira, Devil’s Greens supervisor.
According to various students and some staff members at Devil’s Greens, it appears students are more inclined to get meal dinners and ice cream than salads.
Students pay for salads by weight and ice cream by the scoop, while they can use “meal swipes,” meals from their required meal plans, for the late-night “meal alternatives.”
Criminal justice senior Anthony Saavedra said Devil’s Greens has apparently not lived up to its original goal of offering healthy options.
He comes down about once a week, usually getting the meal plan alternatives or ice cream.
“I myself am into a healthy, nutritious lifestyle,” Saavedra said. “I thought (Devil’s Greens) would be something different than it turned out to be.”
Rudy Rivas, director of administration of the Downtown student government and a community assistant in Taylor Place, said he appreciates Devil’s Green as a late-night hang out.
He said he will sit in the restaurant with friends late at night where quiet hours aren’t enforced and food is available until 1 a.m.
Rivas said if Devil’s Greens allowed salads to be bought with meal swipes students might be more likely to buy them.
For journalism senior Johnny Gutierrez, the problem for Devil’s Greens is pretty clear.
“Kids late at night just don’t want a salad,” he said.
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