Welcome to The Vanilla Bean Cafe

Breakfast Menu | Lunch Menu | Dinner Menu

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weekend breakfast specials | daily lunch specials | daily dinner specials
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mornings at "The Bean"

Quality
Here at the Bean, the quality and freshness of all our menu items is of prime importance! We are constantly trying new products to keep up with the changes in the food service industry while providing our customers with the finest quality ingredients available.

Freshness
Fresh fruit and vegetables are very important to us! Our produce can be delivered on a daily basis, if need be. We also make extensive use of local seasonal favorites when they are available. We also pay premium prices for premium meat products of the highest quality.

Variety
We offer a diverse menu including vegetarian and vegan specials. Seasonal fruits, vegetables and herbs are used when ever available. Along with comfort foods we also offer foods from around the world.

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Pricing Policy

There are practices we follow here at The Vanilla Bean Café that are not traditionally practiced in the marketplace. In fact, some of our practices are considered "wrong" by various schools of thought that exist in this country. However, they make sense to us, and we believe that our practices service our customer. Three of our practices are outlined below:

  1. Sales Tax Included - Our prices include the 6% Connecticut Sales Tax. The prices listed on the menu are exactly what you pay. Our prices august seem to be inflated; however, a $8.50 menu item is actually $8.02 + $.48 sales tax. Furthermore, this practice makes it easier for the customer, especially if that customer is a child who has exact change for a cookie. What you see is exactly what you pay - what could be simpler?

  2. Not Market Standard Pricing - We are not trying to fool the customer into thinking that $7.95 is less expensive than $8.00. We find this type of pricing insulting to our customers. However, the reason it is used so extensively around the nation is that it works effectively. We don't like that practice, and we also like to believe that our clientele is not so easily fooled.

  3. No Pennies, Dimes or Nickels - Because our prices include tax and we do not price in the standard way, we do not have to use pennies, dimes or nickels. This is a service to both the customer and to us. We don't give you lots of change, and we only have to use quarters and fifty-cent pieces. This also helps our staff to be more efficient performing transactions, which saves time and money. An added bonus is that we don't have to count change at the end of the business day.

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our sister restaurant:
85 main
putnam, ct

our family business
since 1888

Recipient of the
Nozko Family Business Leadership Award
from the University of Connecticut