Breakfast options at Café 1919 and the Bruin Café Express cart have been discontinued this quarter because of a lack of student demand.
Budget problems were also a factor. The Bruin Café cart that used to stand in the De Neve Plaza would have required costly repairs, said UCLA food and beverage director Daryl Ansel in an emailed statement.
Ansel declined to comment further on the closures.
Rebecca Lee, a third-year nursing student, said she was surprised when she tried to go to the Bruin Café cart earlier this week and found that the service had been stopped.
“It was just a really convenient service,” she said. “Even though there was often a line of students at the cart, it was easy to swing by and pick up something in the morning.”
Other students said they liked the increased variety .
“You get tired of eating basically the same thing at (Bruin) Café every day,” said first-year biochemistry student Hannah Johnson. “(Bruin Café) is more convenient, but I would have liked the alternative options that were available at (Café) 1919.”
Gabriel Espinosa, a first-year mathematics student, said he has seen a long line outside of Bruin Café in the morning that he feels could be prevented by offering breakfast options at Café 1919.
Some students also said they often used the Bruin Café Express cart because of its convenient location for De Neve residents.
“I would eat there almost every day,” said Samantha Capati, a third-year microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics student. “Every college student oversleeps a little, and we don’t always have time to get a full dining hall breakfast, so this was a very convenient option for me when I lived in De Neve.”
Popularity of each service appeared to depend on housing location. Students living farther away from either Café 1919 or Bruin Café Express said they were less concerned by the closures.