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E-PrinceFive cups flour, three cups sugar, four sticks of butter, four eggs, vanilla, a pinch of salt, baking powder and a smile. The secret is revealed; the classic Murray-Dodge Cafe recipe. So many stressful nights relieved, friends' heart to hearts ...(back to the article)
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I think it's worth mentioning that the author once worked at the cafe. Rather than quitting, she wasn't rehired for a variety of reasons, chief among them being her inability to be civil both with her fellow co-managers and with cafe patrons. With this in mind, the criticisms of the Cafe start to look quite different.
I don't understand how Emily came off with this opinion of Murray Dodge. It's a great place to hang out and the people there are fantastic....
This really is not a fair critique of the cafe at all. The changes made in the past couple years have strengthened the cafe's appeal and attracted a much wider range of students, while offering a great alternative to Thursday and Saturday nights at the eating clubs.
the café has made some major strides toward, what i believe, is a much better direction than where it was. there is now a much more diverse audience attending the café every night and it is a more open place to many people. the successful saturday events do offer an alternative to those students who do not wish to attend the street and many are much looked forward to. i agree the café has changed, but for the better.
Don't you have a thesis to write, Emily? You might want to start concentrating on that instead of writing vindictive and malicious editorials. And oh yes, if something like this happens to you in one of the foreign service jobs you aspire to, try to not to get too bitchy...
all the comments so far are written by one person, and i think i know who. emily's right, the cafe has changed and it has lost its personality and warmth. it used to be a nice, welcoming environment for my friends and i. now it feels like it has sold out to the highest bidder!
to the girl who keeps posting negative comments and is trying to make it seem like multiple people share her point of view: knock it off and grow up.
Those who believe that only one person finds this review of Murray Dodge Cafe biased clearly do not know how to count. The cafe now is far more thoroughly enjoyed by a wider spectrum of Princeton's population, and the cafe and its workers have put a lot of effort and time into making it more and more friendly and welcoming to the entire campus.
Those who don't enjoy Saturday nights when the cafe tends to be more crowded due to hosting larger events (and as an aside, I have never associated mug-painting with "selling out") might try coming on different nights, for instance on Friday, when they can knit with Hats for the Homeless. Winter is coming, wouldn't it be nice to be doing something helpful while enjoying the cafe instead of complaining about it?
I loved going to Murray-dodge cafe as an undergrad 1995-1999, it was never crowded had great cookies and was an excellent place to to cure the munchies on those stoned nights coming back from a friends dorm. I once spent 2 hours reading all the writing on the wall while on Acid. I loved that it stayed open til midnight too. Ah, those were the days.