The Green Lantern, casually known as “The Green,” has long been a favorite of Whitman students. With a significant remodel, The Green hopes to serve customers faster and more efficiently now more than ever.Built in 1917, The Green has been a landmark of Walla Walla for 90 years. Excluding a stint as a fruit stand during the prohibition, the building has been a bar since its founding. Due to its age, The Green has been grandfathered in with regard to many building codes, thus not needing to be completely up to standards. With the new remodel, however, it is fully up to code and then some.”We have basically brought it back into this century,” said Manager Dave Brown.The remodel was not intended to make The Green bigger or to change everything, Brown said, but to make things more efficient. While there is not any new customer space, there are new and better bathrooms, an expanded kitchen and a more proficient bar, among other things.”Its been a long, long, long couple of months with the remodel, but having all these beers up here really makes working here much more efficient,” said bartender and Whitman grad Michelle Morales.”We’re able to serve you a lot faster,” Brown said.What once was an hour and a half wait for some of their highly regarded tacos, of which they sold 16,000 last year, has been shortened to 20 minutes on a busy day.”You had to wait like 45 minutes to get food, it just wasn’t worth it if you were only going for dinner,” said senior Emma Fulkerson.”The kitchen was so small you could only cook four things at once,” Brown said.Although many customers were fine with the wait, a new, larger, and more efficient kitchen allows for an expanded menu and a shorter wait time.”You can definitely notice the change. I don’t have to wait in line to use the bathroom and the food comes right away,” said senior Lucas Swart.Brown noted that with the expanded kitchen, pizza made from the crust up is in the works. As far as drinks go, there are 28 beers on tap and a much larger liquor selection now that there is somewhere to put it on display.The remodel will be completed in another three months, but Brown said that in truth they will never be done as there are always new things they want to do.”We love the Whitman students that come here, they’re easy, to tell you the truth. As long as you bring ID,” Brown said.