Scrubs Cafe – UC Davis
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MENUGrill MenuCheeseburger $13.95 1/2 pound beef burger, cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickle, Scrubs sauce, brioche bunScrubs Burger $14.951/2 …
Gary Osterloh
Scrubs Café is exactly what you’d expect from a UC Davis campus spot: aggressively mediocre, coasting on convenience and affiliation rather than quality. The food is forgettable, the prices are inflated for what you get, and the service often feels indifferent or disorganized. It exists less as a real café and more as a functional prop—something to funnel students through rather than serve well.
And that’s the UC Davis pattern in a nutshell. Everything is dressed up to look impressive, but underneath it’s shallow and low effort. The campus is full of posturing and nonsense, with too many students playing roles instead of building real skills—bragging loudly about affiliation while producing very little of substance. It’s a performance culture: image over ability, talk over work, hype over results. For all the self-congratulation, the outcomes don’t justify the attitude, and places like Scrubs Café are just small, edible examples of a much larger problem.
… morePaul Smith
The self serve pizza is good and inexpensive, but the burgers don’t taste as good as they look. Thick patty without much flavor, and far too much mayonnaise on mine, the burger would actually slide around when I bit it. The bacon and other toppings also didn’t have much flavor. Can get much better burgers for the price of one here, but if you stick with the pizza and sandwiches you’ll likely leave satisfied
… moreTom H
I love how they put so much effort into creating fresh buffet meals every day. All the food here is great, and there are an array of choices. Unfortunately, the hours are limited.
… moreSolana Torres
I ordered a plain large iced coffee. According to the menu this would be $5.5. I didn’t print out a receipt when I ordered, but upon checking my account later, I realized I got charged $7.5. There was no option to leave a tip, so I know the man who took my order just overcharged me. Not only was the service terrible, the man who served me was so rude when I ordered, but he overcharged me. I am incredibly disappointed. The coffee was not good, it was watered down and looked like iced tea. I also tried to call the manager, Beto, but he was not very helpful either. He told me there was no iced coffee on the menu, despite me ordering iced coffee and receiving that. I honestly hope this place either gets new employees or shuts down. Go to any other cafe, not this place.
… moreEmi McCann
On campus cafe and market. Good for an easy pick-me-up. Grab some of the bottled drink options and snacks or get some Peet’s coffee. The grill is standard, nothing amazing but all the food is enjoyable if nothing else. Closes at 2pm
… moreUlrika Beitnere
Food doesn’t taste good. Sorry but I’m always disappointed and tell myself.. This is it, I’m not coming back but since this is the closest thing to work I end up there again and again. As an example, the kale side salad is always dry and the pizza is super greasy…and don’t let me start on the tasteless burger… Additionally their buzzer system is very slow. Sad, they could do so much better, but I feel like they whoever creates the menu doesn’t love food.
… moreDavid Matson
Great view, OK atmosphere, good service from staff, poor from management, expensive with a few oddball items that are decently priced. Often loud from the fans inside. Inconsistent policies, where I’ve been told sometimes that they don’t carry something, but someone else says “sure!”, or will be told that I can’t substitute tator-tots for fries when they cost the same. Often won’t even take your order because a certain machine won’t be up for five minutes, even though I’m OK waiting… they tell me to come back at some later time. The problem is never the front staff, but rather when they check with management or chef, they get inconsistent replies or replies that are only in the benefit of some inner department, and not the customer. That would be OK if their prices were good.
… morerafael de leon jr
Went there for lunch had a roast beef sandwich on a bun with Swiss cheese and a bag of chips and a Pepsi-Cola. I was surprised it was quite tasty. Now the drawbacks the music they were playing in there was so loud I don’t know how anybody could study or even concentrate and that room. And if you’re not a student the prices I kind of high. I sure hope the students get a discount you couldn’t eat there every day with those prices.
… moreJanet Chambers
Really liked the fresh vegetable salad bar, hard to find around here during the summer. The roasted turkey on the carving board was excellent, I wanted to go back and buy everything they had left and take it home to my family.
… moreMike Watts
I got the pepperoni pizza. It was kind of greasy, but it was still good. I only went here because I had to take my dog to the UC Davis small animal hospital. But I was still satisfied with the selection of food and there is a Pete’s Coffee there too!
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