Cornerstone MIAMI UNIVERSITY FINANCE AND BUSINESS SERVICES
Transforming Bell Tower CJ Coman
Bell Tower will be making waves next fall as it transforms from renovation to innovation. Next fall, Bell Tower’s renovation will be transformed into dining innovation for the entire Miami community. Guests can expect a ghost kitchen hub, a home base for food delivery autonomous robots, and offices for Aramark. Bell Tower is expected to open at the start of the fall semester, while Ogden’s residence hall is expected to be occupied in the fall of 2024. So what is a ghost kitchen? Most dining venues are built to a specific brand, which includes providing a specific menu. A ghost kitchen’s brand is all virtual. The location where you retrieve your meal is not designed and built to look a certain way. The “brand” is what you see when you select your meal options from the Grubhub app or the kiosk within Bell Tower. The ghost kitchen will have at least three different brands or restaurant selections to choose from. Pick up of the food order will be inside Bell Tower via food lockers or delivered directly to the customer's location by the Starship robots. Bell Tower will have some seating for people to sit down and enjoy their meal. But, its primary focus will be designed for people to order food quickly and take it on the go to accommodate the very busy lifestyle on the academic quad. The ghost kitchen concept also allows Bell Tower to host a variety of different types of venues that may change at any time, instead of permanent concepts year-round. Variety, speed, and efficiency! Bell Tower will be the most innovative food service concept breaking onto the collegiate dining scene. The key to this new concept is to provide Miami’s campus with a sustainable, efficient, and technologicallyforward dining experience. So say goodbye to the old traditional Bell Tower, and say hello to the new innovative Bell Tower that Miami is sure its community will grow to know and love even more.
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