In another effort to promote on-campus student social life, Epicurean and Co. will be open 24 hours a day, six days a week beginning fall 2013, with a full bar open until 2 a.m. starting this summer.

Though the full restaurant now closes nightly at 10:30 p.m., limited food options will now be available after 11 p.m. The restaurant will close completely only from late Sunday night to early Monday morning.

Epicurean will also be open 24/7 from May 1 to May 19 this year in an effort to provide more study space during final exams.

According to Epicurean manager J.G. Yang, Epicurean owner Chang Wook Chon was considering lengthening the restaurant’s hours until 2 a.m. when the university approached him about staying open 24 hours.

“We had a plan to stay open until 2, and then the university asked if we could do this instead so the owner [said] yes,” Yang said.

Georgetown University Student Association President Nate Tisa (SFS ’14) said Epicurean’s extended hours were prompted by extensive conversations between GUSA, Associate Vice President of Auxiliary Services Margie Bryant and Chief Business Officer Deborah Morey.

Many of the details for Epicurean’s extended hours have yet to be worked out.

“Definitely we’ll keep open sandwich and pizza areas, and the bar will be open until 2 a.m.,” Yang said.

The extended bar hours will necessitate increased security for drinking-age enforcement.

“The dining area will be open for everyone, of course, but [the] bar area, that might be a little strict,” Yang said. “We have a plan to put some outdoor seating. Our owner has a plan to put an outdoor stage as well. Anyone who wants to play can schedule it with us.”

The announcement of the extension of Epicurean’s hours coincides with the recent announcement of Mason Inn owner Fritz Brogan (COL ’07, LAW ’10) as the operator of the Healey Family Student Center pub, set to open in fall 2014.

Despite the apparent similarities between the planned changes for Epicurean and the Healey Family Student Center pub, Yang said he does not see the two late-night, on-campus locations as competitors.

“I know they are going to open, but that’s next year,” Yang said. “I think we are in another area [of campus] so we might have different people come to us.”

Brogan agreed that the two businesses would not extensively overlap.

“To be honest, I don’t know much about Epicurean’s business model, but I think our concept will be different,” he said. “I don’t think they have a dance floor.”

Tisa, who pushed for the extended Epicurean hours, said the new hours would benefit both students and neighbors.

“We’ve been discussing ways to make university auxiliary services serve students better and fix a lot of problems we see with on-campus and off-campus relations,” he said, “The neighbors want us to have on-campus late night food options, because then we don’t have to walk through the neighborhood to go to Tuscany. Students want on-campus, late-night food options, so they don’t have to walk through the neighborhood to go to Tuscany. The administration is now in the position to make some changes so they can really accommodate that.”

In addition to extending Epicurean’s hours, the university will open Copley Formal Lounge and Riverside Lounge from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. during study days and final exams from May 1 to May 19.