The contest is over, and there’s a name for the new café recently opened at the School of Public Health (SPH).

The eatery on first floor of the SPH II building will be called the Crossroads Café. The name is a reference to the new Crossroads of Public Health Building being constructed over Washington Heights between SPH I and II.

The winning entry was submitted by six different members of the SPH community—making it the most popular nomination among contest entrants as well as among judges. Each of the six winning entrants will receive a free lunch at the Crossroads Café, courtesy of Len Lynam, district manager for AVI FoodSystems, which runs the facility for the school.

The Crossroads Café serves coffee, bagels and muffins, juice, fruit, sandwiches and salads from 7:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. every weekday.

More than 138 entries were submitted, and they reflected a lively range of approaches—both to the naming of the school’s Café and to the field of public health itself.

Among the names receiving votes from the judges were: The Caffeine Vaccine Café; Mocha Loca; The Healthy Habitat; On-The-Way Café; Café O’Health; Café Salud del Mundo; PHood Stand; The Hot SPHot Café; Bob’s Place (honoring former Associate Dean Bob Gray’s contribution to the new building); and The Broad Street Pump Café (after a story from public health history of pioneer epidemiologist John Snow and a pump—see http://www.sph.umich.edu/epid/GSS/pub.html).

Entries that amused the judges but received no votes included Perks, Feast or Famine Café, SPHOC’s, Caf’teria Diptheria, and CDC: Center for Delicious Coffee.