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Towers Eatery, formerly known as Towers Marketplace, is one of Ithaca College’s retail dining locations and has reopened under a new name after a semester of being closed because of staffing shortages

Towers Marketplace reopens as a retail dining option

By Inbaayini Anbarasan, Staff Writer • February 1, 2023
Towers Eatery, formerly known as Towers Marketplace, is one of Ithaca College’s retail dining locations and has reopened under a new name after a semester of being closed because of staffing shortages

On the Quad: Towers Eatery?

By Maggie Bryan • February 1, 2023

Ithaca College’s Dining Services are working to solve its understaffing issue in preparation for a new dining model budgeted to launch in Fall 2023. 

Dining Services at the college work to solve understaffing

By Lorien Tyne, Editor-in-Chief • October 26, 2022
Ithaca College’s Dining Services are working to solve its understaffing issue in preparation for a new dining model budgeted to launch in Fall 2023. 
At the Ithaca College Student Governance Council (SGC) meeting Oct. 3, members of Dining Services spoke as well as members from Physical Therapy Students of Color (PTSC).

SGC discusses adjustments to dining services

By Emma Kersting, Podcast Editor • October 5, 2022
At the Ithaca College Student Governance Council meeting Oct. 3, members of Dining Services spoke as well as members from Physical Therapy Students of Color.
Reginald Briggs, associate director of Dining Services, said the decision was made to temporarily close Towers Marketplace because of understaffing issues. 

Towers Marketplace closed because of understaffing issues

By Clare Shanahan, Former Opinion Editor • September 7, 2022
Towers Marketplace at Ithaca College has not opened for the fall semester, despite plans announced during summer 2022 to expand the location's hours and food offerings.
Members of the Ithaca College community gathered at Towers Marketplace on April 10 for the third annual BomberTHON. Student-athletes from several teams around the college helped raise money through the dance marathon that benefited Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital, a Miracle Network Hospital in Syracuse, New York.

IC student-athletes help raise money for BomberTHON

By Nicolas Rosado, Staff Writer • April 14, 2022
As Ithaca College students from all over the college gathered in Towers Marketplace on April 10, BomberTHON began its third annual dance marathon.
Both the Terrace Dining Hall and the Campus Center Dining Hall (CCDH) are experiencing backups this semester as students return to campus for an in-person semester. The college is also experiencing understaffing issues, which is adding to the pressures on campus dining halls. 

Students express frustration with long dining hall lines

By Luke Haworth, Contributing Writer • September 22, 2021
Some Ithaca College students are expressing frustration with the long lines and wait times at the campus dining halls and retail dining options.
In an April 12 email to the college community, the college stated that some students have received phone calls from an unknown number stating that the college is concerned by the number of green boxes — the to-go containers used for dining — that they are taking.

Dining halls adjust procedure as students return to campus

By Alyshia Korba, Assistant News Editor • February 14, 2021
Dining Services is changing its procedures to follow COVID-19 health and safety guidelines as students return to campus.
Sophomore Ali DeRagon, freshman Drew Martin, sophomore Henry Sauer and junior August Bish play at the IC Jazz Club’s open mic night. The event happens Thursdays in the Towers Marketplace.

Students jam at Towers every Thursday night

By Ryan Bieber • February 18, 2020

Walking through the Ithaca College Towers Marketplace, it’s not uncommon to hear the sweet sizzle of burgers and the crisp crackle of fries emerging from the kitchen. But on Thursday nights from 9 to...

Sophomores Drew Jacobson and Michael Le test out the new GrubHub preorder system on Jan. 21 at the Towers Marketplace.

Grubhub to come to Towers Marketplace

By Alex Hartzog, Staff Writer • January 29, 2020
Towers Marketplace, a retail dining location at the top of Ithaca College’s campus, has partnered with Grubhub.
Dave Prunty, executive director of auxiliary services, discusses the changes made in Dining Services at an open forum held Oct. 15. Four students attended the event.

Dining Services holds town hall for student critique

By Ryan Bieber, Staff Writer • October 22, 2019
Four students attended an open forum to offer feedback about the change in meal service providers hosted by Ithaca College Dining Services Oct. 15.
From left, junior Maria White and sophomore Peyton Fleming eat in Towers Marketplace, formerly Towers Dining Hall. Ithaca College has brought in more retail dining locations as part of its new self-operated dining program.

New college-operated dining services dishes out changes

By Madison Fernandez, News Editor • August 29, 2019
In three months, Ithaca College started its own dining program, transformed its dining halls and brought in local businesses.
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