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affe Capri brings new spice to Bryan
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affe is cafe in Italian. Students are
apt to pick up a few Italian words
when visiting Caffe Capri in down-
wn Bryan.
Caffe Capri was opened a month ago by
lami Cerone, a 22-year-old Texas A&M
graduate with a degree in management.
Cerone said owning his own business is
something he’s always wanted to do.
I “I wanted to have a restaurant,” Cerone
laid. “Initially, I looked for smaller jobs but
know I’d have to leave eventually. So I start-
iH on my restaurant immediately.”
| Being raised in the restaurant business
lade his choice quite obvious, Cerone said.
“My parents are in the restaurant busi-
ess, so I’ve been around it,” Cerone said. “I
new I always wanted a business, and I
hose a restaurant because I knew it.”
Cerone said he initially looked for loca-
ions for his restaurant in College Station,
downtown Bryan had more appeal.
Caffe Capri has a character and an at-
losphere people won’t find in College Sta-
ion, Cerone said.
“This isn’t a typical building,” Cerone
sjaid. “It’s different than [other Italian]
estaurants.”
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Caffe Capri is a one-room
establishment with an open
kitchen. The music is not the
traditional Italian polkas that
might be expected, but
Cerone’s own collection of rock
and reggae.
“It’s something different,”
Heather Perrine, a sophomore
business major, said. “It’s more
of a lunch place. It’s not a typi
cal romantic Italian restaurant
with candles and dim lighting.”
This difference is what
holds the appeal for students,
Cerone said.
“The appeal is in the open
and bright atmosphere,” he
said. “Customers can just lay
back and relax.” „ a - r
Cynthia Trevizo, a senior CaiteCapii is
English major and Caffe Capri waitress,
said students should make the drive to
Caffe Capri.
“Downtown Bryan offers a good escape
from College Station,” Trevizo said. “It’s
good for a change of pace.”
Perrine said the food also attracts students.
“The food has more of a home-cooked
taste, and students are craving home-cooked
meals,” Perrine said.
Amy Browning, The Battaeion
in historical downtown Bryan.
The recipes for all entrees are family
recipes. Cerone’s father prepares 80
gallons of homemade marinara sauce
every week for the restaurant.
Cerone said customers from Austin and
Dallas have voiced their desires to have Caf
fe Capri in their town. Cerone is not sure
when or if he’ll expand his business, but he
said he is going to try.
“I hope it’s the first of many,” he said.
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Continued from Page 3
“I was on fire about the whole
diversity issue,” she said. “I had
done a lot of things to broaden
my perspective. I was into trying
new things.”
She said her efforts to expand
her horizons had been more ap
preciated at A&M tan in Califor
nia. Early said it was hard to let
people know that she didn’t fit
the stereotype of the “white girl
from Texas.”
“I had a hard time articulat
ing what I believed,” she said.
They couldn’t understand where
I came from.”
Early said she had been
working to deal with the issue
of race relations on campus. She
had joined the Black Awareness
Committee and attended the
Southwestern Black Student
Leadership Conference in an ef
fort to better understand other
people’s point of view. When her
efforts were misunderstood at
the retreat, she said she became
defensive.
“At first 1 became very de
fensive because l was trying to
reach out, and all of a sudden,
I was getting pushed away,”
she said.
She said she later regretted
being defensive because she real
ized that was not what she was
there for.
“I realized I was so busy try
ing not to be stereotyped that I
kind of stereotyped other people,”
she said.
Thomas said he had never re
alized how much of an effect the
region of the country that stu
dents came from had on the is
sues they faced.
“It was important to be there
so I could learn about these is
sues, so I can help here at home,”
he said. “What goes on in Cali
fornia eventually affects what
goes on here."
Early said she was also sur
prised at the difference in social
issues that affected people in dif
ferent regions of the country.
“Everyone has a different ex
perience to draw from,” she said.
Thomas said there was some
thing different to learn from
everyone involved in the project.
“Everybody had something
different they could give, some
thing to show you, something to
make you understand,” he said.
He said the experience had a
great impact on him.
T think what happened there
affects me every day and it is im
portant that it does,” he said. “It
will affect my actions from here
on out.”
Reid said she wanted to work
with college students on this pro
ject because they are at an im
pressionable time in their lives.
“College students are at a
place in their lives where they
are more open to new ideas and
are willing to experience and look
at new attitudes and ideas,” she
said.
She said she hopes to inspire
dialogue and communication.
“The film allows us to see and
talk about things that can be dif
ferent and scary, but can be re
warding,” she said. “I used the
students as role models to help
those discussions take place.”
Early said that sometimes it
may be hard to face these issues
but that it needs to be done.
“You have to continually chal
lenge yourself and try to step out
of the comfort zone,” she said.
“The more you do that, the easier
it is to understand where other
people are coming from.”
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