We deserve a StratCaf with more and better options. There’s plenty of space for at least a few convenience store style beverage and food machines. How about extended hours on session days? An email address for feedback (to an official working above cafeteria staff) that is active and responsive? A Go-Fund-Me to replace the tiny current grill? This is crazy, but what if a website existed with daily menus, special items, etc. for the Stratton and Howlett cafeterias? Somebody talk me down.
And even with this the Howlett cafeteria is still closed, since the east part of the building where the cafe is located is now the part of the building getting renovated.
Definitely need to have more options within the immediate Vicinity of the CapComplex. Boones, Stratton cafeteria, that coffeehouse in the Capitol, and Conn’s restaruants in Vinegar HIll mall are all nice but doesn’t cut it.
It’s not just the Stratton cafe, it’s most restaurants in Springfield. I’ve been turned away because my party was too large (despite the restaurant being half empty, i’ve been asked to
hurry up because the wait staff wanted to go
go home (at 8:30pm on a saturday night), open late, closing early, the business hours are a suggestion, no one has a menu posted online. Welcome to Springfield where it’s hard to find people who try.
Half of the old lunch line is unused. I really like the folks that work down there, but the SecOfState needs to contract with a new vendor. Tons of turnover, very slow when it’s busy due to only having a single small grill, closed at 1 on session days…
- NorthSideNoMore - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 10:37 am:
Now we can finally control revenue !
- Travel Guy - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 10:39 am:
Stratton Caf: We’re not here to make you happy…or to make money.
- Ducky LaMoore - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 10:43 am:
“Should we change the menu, or just post a really embarrassing note on the door?”
- Comptroller Susana Mendoza - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 10:46 am:
That must mean they make a mean quesadilla (banned punctuation.)
- Incandenza - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 10:53 am:
It’s econ 101: when demand is high, offer zero supply!
- The Most Anonymous - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 11:03 am:
Laying the groundwork for the Secretary of State’s quesadilla cart
- Alton Sinkhole - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 11:06 am:
To be fair the quesadilla is a famously difficult item to make /s
- Montrose - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 11:10 am:
“If none of you wanted quesadillas, we would continue to offer them.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 11:17 am:
Just because something’s popular doesn’t make it right.
- Annon'in - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 11:19 am:
Thinkin’ some Door Dashers can solve this
- DuPage Saint - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 11:22 am:
Isn’t that the way McDonalds started?
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 11:23 am:
Stratton Caf: The Place to Go to Avoid Your Favorites
- Jocko - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 11:24 am:
I guess there IS a limit on how many times you say “case-a-dilla’ before cafeteria workers revolt.
- Leatherneck - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 11:27 am:
“At least we’re not the Rathskeller.”
- ChicagoBars - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 11:29 am:
I am equal parts “How small is the Stratton griddle?” and “How many quesadillas are you people ordering?”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 11:30 am:
Asterisk on sign: * (If you like crepes, don’t even ask.)
- 47th Ward - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 11:35 am:
“Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”
- Pot calling kettle - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 11:46 am:
How about a grilled cheese made with a tortilla?
- Lurker - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 11:47 am:
No one goes there anymore because it’s too crowded(bp)
- Lurker - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 11:49 am:
I’d like to order a grilled cheese. But instead of bread, I’d like a tortilla. Thanks
- Linus - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 11:49 am:
“And as of Thursday, we’re going strictly BYOFP (Bring Your Own Fondue Pot)”
- JS Mill - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 11:51 am:
If you make it, they will come. So we aren’t making it.
@Streator Curmudgeon for the win. Crepes, hehe.
- Speak up, Strattonites! - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 11:54 am:
We deserve a StratCaf with more and better options. There’s plenty of space for at least a few convenience store style beverage and food machines. How about extended hours on session days? An email address for feedback (to an official working above cafeteria staff) that is active and responsive? A Go-Fund-Me to replace the tiny current grill? This is crazy, but what if a website existed with daily menus, special items, etc. for the Stratton and Howlett cafeterias? Somebody talk me down.
- Leatherneck - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 11:54 am:
Bring Taco Bell across the street from the Capitol Complex. Or put it on Jefferson instead.
- Give us Barabbas - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 12:04 pm:
Reminds me of the middle managers I knew in my old state job.
- Bored Chairman - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 12:10 pm:
The comments are hilarious. Harkens back to the golden age of Cap Fax blog. Keep up the good work all.
- Dotnonymous x - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 12:25 pm:
You customers are slowing down our business…stop it!
- Dotnonymous x - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 12:39 pm:
Customers…who needs ‘em?
- Norseman - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 12:46 pm:
Consequence of deluging the place with orders for the only palatable item on the menu.
- Norseman - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 12:50 pm:
“You’re gonna need a bigger grill,” Chef Brody.
- Bears Fan - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 1:01 pm:
Anyone want to invest in my new quesadilla food truck business?
- Earnest - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 1:05 pm:
They caucused to discuss increasing the price to both enhance revenue and decrease demand, but no one’s stomach had the constitution for it.
- Leatherneck - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 1:21 pm:
And even with this the Howlett cafeteria is still closed, since the east part of the building where the cafe is located is now the part of the building getting renovated.
Definitely need to have more options within the immediate Vicinity of the CapComplex. Boones, Stratton cafeteria, that coffeehouse in the Capitol, and Conn’s restaruants in Vinegar HIll mall are all nice but doesn’t cut it.
- Head in Sand - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 1:30 pm:
Best post so far this year. These comments are hilarious.
- Michelle Flaherty - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 1:47 pm:
The little known, and seldom practiced, Stratton Building theory of supply-side economics.
- Merica - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 1:52 pm:
It’s not just the Stratton cafe, it’s most restaurants in Springfield. I’ve been turned away because my party was too large (despite the restaurant being half empty, i’ve been asked to
hurry up because the wait staff wanted to go
go home (at 8:30pm on a saturday night), open late, closing early, the business hours are a suggestion, no one has a menu posted online. Welcome to Springfield where it’s hard to find people who try.
- Head in Sand - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 2:45 pm:
Napolean Dynamite will have to go elsewhere.
- Peanut Gallery - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 2:49 pm:
Stratton Caf quesadillas were the ultimate hangover session food during my intern and staffer days. RIP.
- anon eater - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 2:49 pm:
= Speak up, Strattonites! =
Half of the old lunch line is unused. I really like the folks that work down there, but the SecOfState needs to contract with a new vendor. Tons of turnover, very slow when it’s busy due to only having a single small grill, closed at 1 on session days…
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 2:50 pm:
“No more quesadillas for you, Jerry Seinfeld” (banned punctuation mark)
- Dan - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 3:04 pm:
Apparently, size does matter.
- Ben Tre - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 3:08 pm:
In related news, KFC announced they will no longer server fried chicken, as it leads to long lines and overworks their staff.
- Seventh Floor - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 3:55 pm:
What is the opposite of doing yeoman’s work?
- From DaZoo - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 4:39 pm:
The “@6figga_dilla” special blew up to historic proportions that it overwhelmed them.
- Anon - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 5:14 pm:
Channeling Seinfeld….No Quesadilla for You!!!
- Levois - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 5:23 pm:
Ah man, now I’ll never know how good those quesadillas were.
- Dotnonymous x - Wednesday, Feb 18, 26 @ 6:40 pm:
Who else needed a good laugh?…lots of clever funny people on this always informative and amusing blog.
- Moseley - Thursday, Feb 19, 26 @ 10:34 am:
What I’m seeing is the Quesadilla got DOGEd