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All about the University of Miami’s hot new all-day-breakfast concept

Chef Elizabeth Prado and Marketing Director Alana Henderson of Chartwells at University of Miami talk about Daybreak Café, the school’s popular new retail outlet that builds an all-day breakfast menu around waffles.

Mike Buzalka, Executive Features Editor

April 15, 2021

FM On Demand is video interviews with onsite dining professionals who talk about creative and interesting initiatives they have developed or undertaken.

Daybreak Café debuted at the University of Miami on March 22 and has been seeing lines of students waiting to get their selections from the café’s creative all-day breakfast menu, which features all sorts of iterations of waffles, from traditional chicken and waffles to out-of-the-box creations like quesadilla waffles.

In this FM On Demand video interview, Chef Elizabeth Prado and Marketing Director Alana Henderson of UM’s dining services provider Chartwells Higher Education talk about the Daybreak Café concept, its development, its menu and its role in the overall campus dining program.

About the Author

Mike Buzalka

Mike Buzalka

Executive Features Editor, Food Management

Mike Buzalka is executive features editor for Food Management and contributing editor to Restaurant Hospitality, Supermarket News and Nation’s Restaurant News. On Food Management, Mike has lead responsibility for compiling the annual Top 50 Contract Management Companies as well as the K-12, College, Hospital and Senior Dining Power Players listings. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English Literature from John Carroll University. Before joining Food Management in 1998, he served as for eight years as assistant editor and then editor of Foodservice Distributor magazine. Mike’s personal interests range from local sports such as the Cleveland Indians and Browns to classic and modern literature, history and politics.

Mike Buzalka’s areas of expertise include operations, innovation and technology topics in onsite foodservice industry markets like K-12 Schools, Higher Education, Healthcare and Business & Industry.

Mike Buzalka’s experience:

Executive Features Editor, Food Management magazine (2010-present)

Contributing Editor, Restaurant Hospitality, Supermarket News and Nation’s Restaurant News (2016-present)

Associate Editor, Food Management magazine (1998-2010)

Editor, Foodservice Distributor magazine (1997-1998)

Assistant Editor, Foodservice Distributor magazine (1989-1997)

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