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Photo by Ricky Emmons - Assistant Photography Editor
Server and cashier Cari Common serves students healthy dining options from Rosetta's Kitchen, now open on campus.
Photo by Ricky Emmons - Assistant Photography Editor
Junior Sarah Merritt, 20, and freshman Ella Ferguson, 18, enjoy talking and lunch at the health and wellness cafe.
Local
eatery
opens on
campus
Sheldon Schenck
sschenck@unca.edu - Staff Writer
UNC Asheville Dining Ser
vices now provides more di
verse and healthy eating options
on campus.
UNCA now serves Rosetta’s
Kitchen in the Sherrill Cen
ter, in addition to new options
in Highsmith Union and The
Down Under in Overlook Hall.
Senior director of dining
services, Emily R. Williams,
focused on pleasing the campus
community while supporting
the local economy.
“Our main concern for the
future is sustainability, incorpo
rating as much organic food as
we can and supporting the local
economy by using local foods,”
Williams said. “We offer what
we hope to be something for
everybody.”
The new dining options of
fered on campus came as a re
sult of a student and faculty sur
vey from the 2011-2012 school
year.
Students were asked which
vendors they would like to see
on campus.
The locally owned Rosetta’s
Kitchen was selected rather
than the various fast-food op
tions.
The Rosetta’s menu on cam
pus mirrors that of their loca
tion on North Lexington.
The menu centers around
vegetarian, vegan and organic
foods.
“It’s pretty much 85 precent
the same menu. We don’t have
a fryer at the Wellness Cafe, so
it’s a little more focused on nu
trition,” said Star Buan, ower
of Rosetta’s. “We don’t offer
chips. We offer slaw or car
rots and celery sticks as a side.
We often describe our food as
‘homestyle comfort food.’”
In addition to the new Roset
ta’s on campus. The Down Un
der opened on the ground level
see DINING on page 4