On the first day of classes, students at San Francisco State University received a warm welcome back to campus with coffee and sweet bread outside of SFSU’s newest eatery, Carmelina’s Cafe. The cafe, located in the lobby of the Science and Engineering Innovation Center, hosted a soft launch in preparation for a full opening of the cafe this semester. Carmelina Narciso, the owner of this new cafe that bears her name, is no stranger to the world of commerce. She opened her first business on campus in 1987, a small cafe where Quickly is now. Since then, she’s opened Taquería Girasol on campus, which is now managed and owned by her son Marco Ballesteros, and later opened two businesses at the University of California, San Francisco campus. In 2017, Carmelina retired from SFSU, but she never stopped dreaming — and this semester, she makes her return. “I’ve come back to San Francisco State because I am a person who is 100% pro-students,” Carmelina said. “I love the students because they’r...