{"id":11291,"date":"2025-07-14T19:16:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/new-house-food-options-start-their-rollout\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T19:16:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:16:53","slug":"new-house-food-options-start-their-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/new-house-food-options-start-their-rollout\/","title":{"rendered":"New House food options start their rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>There\u2019s a new timeline out for the planned overhaul of House food service options, with many of the transitions from existing brands to their replacements happening in the coming weeks, according to a schedule released Monday by the House Chief Administrative Officer.<\/p>\n<p>Up first, coffee options: The Longworth Dunkin\u2019 will close July 24, with a temporary Starbucks kiosk opening Aug. 11 and a full-service Starbucks store opening Oct. 6. The Common Grounds in the basement of Cannon will close Aug. 8 and reopen Aug. 11. Rayburn\u2019s Common Grounds pop-up location will close July 24 and reopen as Java House on Aug. 11.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRest assured that there will be food options and eateries open throughout this process,\u201d the CAO announcement reads.<\/p>\n<p>The Rayburn cafeteria will close July 24 and open back up on Aug. 1. Other Rayburn options, including Steak \u2019n Shake, Common Grounds and Subway will also close July 24, with CHA Street Food reopening by Aug. 11. PX Tacos, which is coming to the Common Grounds pop-up space, is scheduled to open Aug. 26, with Jimmy John\u2019s following on Sept. 2.<\/p>\n<p>The Au Bon Pain, the last operating Washington location of the chain, will close on July 24 and will be replaced by a Panera on Nov. 3.<\/p>\n<p>Longworth denizens looking for more than coffee will be able to use the cafeteria until Aug. 8; it return Sept. 2. Smoothie seekers can get a Jamba until July 24; Freshens will open to replace it on Aug. 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese schedules are subject to change depending on construction and the Floor schedule,\u201d the CAO warned. \u201cWe will keep you updated if there are any major modifications to this schedule.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a new timeline out for the planned overhaul of House food service options, with many of the transitions from existing brands to their replacements happening in the coming weeks, according to a schedule released Monday by the House Chief Administrative Officer. Up first, coffee options: The Longworth Dunkin\u2019 will close July 24, with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}