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Students can expect to start hiking to the east side of campus to eat meals after fall break.

For the next 14 months Pearson Cafeteria will be closed for renovations and students will be served in a makeshift building next to Chidley Hall’s parking lot on Alston Ave.

The temporary building, which will open on Oct. 24, is composed of modular trailers.

Pearson, which was originally scheduled to be redesigned in 2002, will undergo a complete renovation that will take 14 months to complete.

The temporary building will seat 364 people, but Pearson seats 450.

The inside of the trailers will have ceilings 8-9 feet high and the floors will be carpeted.

The entrance and outside of the modular units will be fully lighted and a canopy will cover the entrance.

The menu offered will be almost the same as what is offered in Person Cafeteria.

The prices and the hours will remain the same according to Lawrence Lisburg, Sodexho’s general manager.

“We are going to try to keep the menu as close as possible but that depends on the health department and insurance,” said Lisburg.

The new café, will cost $9.5 million dollars.

The funds come from a $3.1 billion North Carolina bond passed on Nov. 7, 2000 for the UNC system and the state’s community colleges.

Originally only the inside of the café was supposed to undergo a renovation to update the facilities and the interior look, but with rapid student growth, the University decided on a full expansion.

The new café will add on an additional 33,000 square feet to the facility and will will include a cyber café, a convenience store, and a culinary kitchen.

Seating will expand from 450 to 1,200 seats.

The Chancellors dining room in the facility will seat 75 and the faculty dining room will seat 70.

In addition to the temporary café location, students will also have access to a Blimpie sandwich truck that will rotate the campus beginning the first week of October.

Students will also have the option of using the deli, the Eagles Nest, and Café a la Carts that are located across campus.

All of these locations will accept Eagle dollars by the time the temporary café opens in October.