The Perfect Blend Café at C Spurk Building in the Haverhill campus of NECC has brought back Weekly Wednesday Specials for the fall semester. This was mostly due to both persuasion and helpful decision making by the café staff to bring back this beneficial trend for those attending NECC who just need a little treat.
Lynette Clark, Project Search and café manager, believes this trend returning could bring great outcomes for lots of cafegoers. “We wanted to make sure that the students had an affordable hot meal,” Clark said. “It’s good to have different choices, some that are healthier, and we just want filling foods for both students and faculty.”
Pam Ross, who is part of the café staff, had a few other words to add on to this point. “We were inspired to do new things for students,” Ross said.
The Perfect Blend Café has a wide number of staff members taking care of preparing the food and helping others with paying for meals.
Some of the workers also feel that they made a great choice with bringing the trend back.
Reilly White, cashier and food preparer of the café, is one of those people who agrees with how the majority of the staff team has made a wise decision with their meals for the benefits of students. “People just like the Wednesday specials every week,” White said.
The weekly specials change each week, so people attending the Haverhill campus on Wednesday don’t exactly know which food the cafe will be serving as weeks go on.
This week the special is pasta with meatballs and garlic bread. The specials are served alongside the café’s usual menu, which consist of breakfast sandwiches, hot dogs, tater tots, drinks and snacks, along with many more food options.
Gabriel Polanco, an art major student at NECC, is mostly neutral towards the difference between normal meals at Perfect Blend and the weekly specials, assuming both are practically the same. “The food there isn’t a gourmet, but it [could still] fill you up,” Polanco said.
The weekly specials have also shown positive feedback towards the café operation itself as well.
“We think they provide some great options and great service,” David Hobbs, police chief at NECC, said. “[Overall], we love having them here.”
The Perfect Blend Café is open Monday through Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. each week throughout both fall and spring semesters at the Haverhill campus of NECC. It is located on the first floor of C Building.
