Blatz Cafe Grand Opening
| Published: 04/06/2009 |
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MSOE's Rader School of Business (RSOB) is running the Blatz Café, a small coffee shop located in the Blatz Condominiums at 270 E. Highland Ave., adjacent to the MSOE campus. The café, which is entirely run and managed by students of RSOB, will celebrate its grand opening on Wednesday, April 8 at 10 a.m.
The idea of having a student-led business venture, something strongly supported by RSOB faculty, became reality when select students convinced both the Blatz Condominium Association and MSOE administration that the café would serve not only as a coffee shop, but also as a method through which students will apply the business-oriented education they receive while attending MSOE.
All aspects of the café, from marketing, to accounting, to operations management will be handled by a team of experienced students from various business-oriented majors. The Blatz Café, open to the general public, is becoming an integral part of the RSOB and MSOE community. Café operations not only provide experience-oriented employment for MSOE students, but also supplement MSOE's vision and goals of student-empowered education and curricula.
For additional information please contact:
Phillip Laper, MSOE student and Blatz Café marketing/PR manager: (262) 853-4433; laperp@msoe.edu
JoEllen Burdue, MSOE director of media relations: (414) 277-7117; (414) 839-0906; burdue@msoe.edu