Heartland Cafe at Franciscan Health Lafayette East — Restaurant in Lafayette

Staff were nice. Food options are odd. Very few hot fresh options.

For dinner there was a salad bar and some premade sandwiches. I had a premade wrap. It made me sad, but I needed nutrients so I ate it. I supplemented with a too sweet potato salad and some prepacked cookies and chips. The last two were name brand and at least predicable vending machine food. There are a few vending machines nearby and in other hallways.

Breakfast was basically mediocre hotel continental breakfast. Luckily it's hard to mess up an English muffin and oatmeal too badly. Yogurt fruit parfait stuff was good. Eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns, biscuits and gravy, and some kind of meat potato mush were also available. Eggs were dry from being open to the air. Bananas and oranges were available. Apple...

I always use the microwaves here to heat up the good food I bring my wife so she doesn't have to eat here. They're pretty nice microwaves. Sometimes she gets the salad and her co-workers scoff at the fact that she can afford to put nuts on her salad because she makes more than them. They used to have a ramen shop here that misspelled basic Japanese ramen terms. They've recently been replaced, thankfully. My gaijin foodie elitism stemming from two decades old four years of high school honors Japanese couldn't handle it...

It's a hospital cafeteria, so that's about what you can expect. Staffing struggles have led to the grill never being open but they occasionally have the pizza station open. They've been having sushi every Wednesday, which is nice. Having worked here, I can say the food is safe to eat and great care is taken to ensure that. The prices are...