{"id":4301,"date":"2019-01-09T13:59:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T18:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/?p=4301"},"modified":"2020-07-14T14:42:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T18:42:04","slug":"transylvania-dining-expands-to-accommodate-campus-center-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2019\/01\/transylvania-dining-expands-to-accommodate-campus-center-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Transylvania expands Rafskeller to accommodate Campus Center construction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Transylvania University has expanded its Rafskeller Grill area to accommodate campus dining needs during the construction of a new, $29.6 million Campus Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The renovated dining space, which opened this week as students returned for the beginning of winter term, provides more seating than the previous facility in Forrer Hall. The 60-year-old residence hall will make way for the new Campus Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When this new building opens in the fall of 2020, it will include Transy\u2019s main dining facility\u2014the Great Hall\u2014which will seat up to 450 and remain open 24\/7 as a place for students to gather. It also will feature a cafe and outdoor terrace seating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until then, the campus community will use the expanded Rafskeller area. (The name is a nod to an eccentric professor, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, and a play on a German word for a type of basement eatery: Ratskeller.) Seating in this space, located in the Mitchell Fine Arts Center<\/a>, includes rooms with themes that students chose\u2014including Lexington Culture, Fourth Street Stuff and the Rafeteria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To further accommodate the change in campus dining, Jazzman\u2019s Cafe will add more grab-and-go options; two pop-up restaurants will be set up each week at various locations around campus; and, for dining outside on nice days, outdoor seating will remain in Alumni Plaza over winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n