Food: Cucina! will serve fast food
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Property, defaulted on the Taste
of Thai Restaurant’s lease.
Michelle Hayes, district man
ager for Starbucks, said Bill Bak
er Property approached Star
bucks about renting the space.
Hayes said Starbucks has been
looking for a campus location for
seven years, but the spaces have
been hard to find.
Both Washington State and
Portland State universities have a
Starbucks on campus, she said,
and Starbucks uses the opportu
nity to connect with the universi
ties, whether it be showcasing
student art or even holding poet
ry readings.
“We just want to know what
students want when it’s in
there,” she said. “We really want
to make those relationships hap
pen.”
While the new Starbucks will
sit on a street already filled with
coffee establishments, Hayes said
competition isn't something Star
bucks looks for when consider
ing an outlet site.
“There’s so many coffee places
around," she said. "We just look
for a population that doesn’t have
a Starbucks.”
The 13th Avenue Starbucks
will join two other Starbucks al
ready in the Eugene area, one at
205 E. 18th Ave. and one in the
Oakway Center on Coburg Road.
Hayes said the 13th Avenue
store will have all the “bells and
whistles” that some of the main
Starbucks locations have, such
as comfortable chairs, couches
and room for hanging out in the
establishment, “as opposed to
getting in there, getting coffee
and getting out of there.” Patrons
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Construction continues for a Starbucks and Cucina! Presto! Italian
fast food restaurant at the former site of Guido's Bar and Taste of
Thai Restaurant at 13th Avenue and Alder Street.
will also be able to buy coffee
beans, espresso machines and
other coffee paraphernalia, in
cluding special University coffee
merchandise such as a coffee
tumbler.
Perhaps less well known to the
Eugene area is the Cucina! Cuci
na! Italian food corporation. The
new Cucina! Presto! is an abbre
viated version of the full-service
Cucina! Cucina! Italian Cafe
chain.
It will offer many items on the
cafe’s menu but in a quick-ser
vice atmosphere, said Dori
Kriner, real estate administrative
assistant for the corporation. This
includes pasta, pizza, sandwich
es, salad, beer and wine.
The goal was to have high
quality fast food that patrons can
dine in for, take out or call in.
“It’s quick service, but it’s still re
ally good food,” Kriner said.
There are currently two Cuci
na! Cucina! Italian Cafes in the
Portland area. Eugene’s Cucina!
Presto! will join a recently
opened Presto! restaurant in Port
land as the only two in the state.
Cucina! Presto! is just one of
several business ventures run by
Cucina! Cucina! Inc., which is
based in Bellevue, Wash. The
corporation, formed in 1993 af
ter success in the Seattle area
with the Cucina! Cucina! Italian
cafes, includes a retail division
selling Cucina! food items in
grocery stores, as well as the
Cucina! Presto! cjuick-service
restaurants.
Kriner said the chance to be
adjacent to the University, Sa
cred Heart Medical Center and a
Starbucks made the company in
terested in expanding its chain to
the 13th Avenue and Alder Street
location.
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