Survey Of Library Caf S

The Survey of Library Cafes (ISBN# 1-57440-089-4)presents data from more than forty academic and public libraries about their cafes and other food service operations. The report gives extensive data on library cafe sales volume, best selling products, impact on library maintenance costs, reasons for starting a cafe, effect on library traffic, and many other issues regarding the decision to start and manage a library cafe. The 60 page report presents data useful in managing a library cafe; it is not returnable.

The study presents data from a survey of public and academic library cafes and other food service operations. The report includes valuable and unique data on best-selling products, revenues and sources of revenues, expansion plans, catering revenues, salary costs, seating and decor and other facets of library cafe and food service operation. Data is broken out for academic and public libraries and also for library size defined by annual library budget and annual number of visitors to the library. The study helps planners answer questions such as: what are personnel costs for the typical cafe? How much revenue is accounted for by lunch traffic? Do cafes cater outside events and if so, how much do they earn?

This report presents approximately 70 tables of data exploring how full time college students in the United States view and use their college librarys cafe. The report presents data on the number of students who believe that their library has a cafe, how often they visit the cafe, how much they spend in it and what they think of the coffee served at the cafe. The data is based on a representative sample of more than 400 full time college students in the United States. Data is broken out by 16 criteria including gender, grade point average, major field of study, income level of students and type, size of college, and mean SAT acceptance score of colleges, among other variables.