The food at TBC is fine if you like moderately soggy vegetables and bland sandwiches. They have vegetarian options, that are okay, more diverse than many places, but the few times I've been there, the salads needed a little work. It is a-ok to tear the lettuce up a bit so people don't have to slobber it all over their faces. I really hate a clunky salad. The pear panini was satisfying and but the IKEA tables outside make me nostalgic for my own yard and my own cooking, thus reinforcing my tagline "Vegetarian with a touch of snobbery"
I don't rate restaurants on their administrative prowess, but if I did I wouldn't give any to the TBC. The waitstaff and management made it nearly impossible to process a reimbursement through the University of Illinois. You would think, given their proximity to campus, that they would train people adequately with respect to how to handle the idiosyncrasies of receipt processing through the University. Instead, I am wasting my work and personal time chasing down the original receipt for a charge entered incorrectly by a waitress. And the day manager can't help me? Um... I just recommend not going here at all if there is a chance you will need to then make your lifework sleuthing receipts. Oh how fulfilling. I've heard other people say that it is always a nightmare to expense TBC meals. The U of I-area restaurants need to take a page from the book of vendors in other college towns and get their act together.