Office of Public Relations
Missouri Baptist University
One College Park Drive
Saint Louis, Missouri 63141-8698
314.392.2307 / fax 314.392.2265
www.mobap.edu / pr@mobap.edu
For Immediate Release
RE: Coffeehouse opens for business
Coffeehouse opens for business
April 26, 2007
The Perk is open.
With a crowd of anxious patrons waiting outside, MBU’s authentic coffeehouse opened its doors for business for the first time Friday, April 20.
MBU students check out the menu of The Perk, MBU's new coffeehouse, on its opening day, April 20.
“In the short time that it has been open, The Perk is already becoming a gathering place for study and fellowship for a growing MBU student body,” said Dr. Andy Chambers, vice president for student development. “It’s a place to build friendships and community.”
The Perk is open seven days a week from 7:30 a.m. to midnight during the fall and spring semesters. The trendy, 3000-sq.-foot structure features, among other things, a working fireplace, a flat screen television, an outdoor patio and high-speed wireless Internet connection. The building, flanked with stained concrete floors and comfortable furniture, seats about 100 people.
The University has entered into a partnership with Kaldi’s Coffee Roasting Company, a St. Louis-based business that offers more than thirty hand-roasted coffee blends, to provide a full line of coffees, smoothies, espressos and gourmet drinks. The coffeehouse will also serve bagels and pastries.
The Perk was named after a campus-wide name solicitation last spring. For more than a decade, MBU has hosted a coffeehouse event, dubbed The Perk, which showcases student's music, poetry and other art forms.
Click here to visit The Perk website.
« Co-founder of Imagine Schools set to speak at MBU commencement
News Archives
Congratulations MBU Class of 2007 »
Missouri Baptist University is a premier Christian university in Saint Louis, offering graduate and undergraduate studies in over thirty specialized fields and nine degrees. MBU's education and fine arts programs are nationally known in addition to business, religion, administration of justice, and more. MBU is one of the fastest growing higher education institutions in Missouri with an enrollment of over 4,500 students at five locations in the bi-state region — West County, Lincoln County, Jefferson County, Franklin County and the new Illinois extension at Lewis and Clark Community College.
# # #
