Freshens, a nationally known casual dining restaurant that serves acai and rice bowls, blended smoothies and handcrafted sandwiches, among other items, is now open at The University of Scranton.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Freshens opened Monday, Nov. 2, on the first floor of Montrone Hall, offering a menu that caters to a variety of tastes. Its signature items include more than a dozen smoothie flavors, including Wild Strawberry, Orange Sunrise, Tropical Therapy, Peach on the Beach and PB&J, as well as chef-created artisan melts like Chicken Bacon Ranch and Buffalo Chicken, plus various salads and \u201cpocket dipper\u201d tortillas.<\/p>\n
Founded in 1985, Freshens has more than 255 locations, including 25 airports and 200 colleges and universities.<\/p>\n
\u201cFood with a Purpose is our commitment to provide guests better choices through responsible sourcing of the ingredients used in our recipes,\u201d Freshens says on its website<\/a>. \u201cOur guests can choose from a variety of ingredients to create vegetarian, gluten free and vegan lifestyle options. We want to set an example for others to follow.\u201d<\/p>\n Hours of operation are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday; and it is closed on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n The University of Scranton is No. 38 in the country and No. 2 in Pennsylvania in the 2027 Best College Food in America rankings by Niche<\/a>. The University itself was ranked by Niche as a top-25 Best Catholic College in America, and has also been recognized in recent national rankings by U.S. News and World Report<\/a>, TIME Magazine<\/a> and The Princeton Review.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Freshens, a nationally known casual dining restaurant that serves acai and rice bowls, blended smoothies and handcrafted sandwiches,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5516,130353,130354,178,180,179,274],"class_list":["post-321111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-dining-services","tag-freshens","tag-montrone-hall","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-the-university-of-scranton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}