Live local. Drink local. This year, Campus Grounds unveiled a new look after a $30,000 renovation and this slogan, fresh from the mind of general manager and business school student Byron McClendon. The slogan may seem like the perfect fit for the student-run coffee shop.
Campus Grounds is like that indie rock band that your roommate has asked you to try out about ten thousand times. Although it may seem that Campus Grounds can be easily labeled as the “hipster” place on campus, the renovations definitely deliver a breath of fresh air to the 10-year-old coffee shop. Sure, Campus Grounds may very well still be the charmingly dysfunctional little brother to Starbucks, complete with big brother’s hand-me-down furniture.