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Local Businesses, Cornellians Kick Off Super Bowl Festivities
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Collegetown restaurants are reporting higher demand and full capacities as students make preparations for watching the Super Bowl with friends.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/wings-over-ithaca/)
Collegetown restaurants are reporting higher demand and full capacities as students make preparations for watching the Super Bowl with friends.
From stocking up on popular food items to increasing staff, many local Ithaca eateries have begun preparations for Super Bowl celebrations ahead of Sunday.
Right after college friends’ Dan Levya ’14, Kevin Mok ’14, Raunak Nirmal ’14 and Mike Wang graduated from Cornell and moved to New York City, their dream was to bring their favorite Cornell restaurant into their adult lives and open a Wings Over branch in The City. After several events — restaurant closings and openings and franchise takeovers — they are now business partners and in charge of the entire Wings Over corporation.
It’s basically a ritual for newly arrived, over-eager freshmen: Flock into Collegetown on a blustery weekend night and live it up in one of the many fraternity annexes surrounding Eddy Street. After we’ve had our fill, this sizable portion of the Cornell population stumbles back to Collegetown’s late-night cafes and restaurants, exhausted and ravenous from a long day of studying and partying.
The four Cornell alumni who purchased and revived their favorite Collegetown restaurant now own the entire Wings Over brand after purchasing the franchise this week.
I was lucky enough to have a taste at their pre-opening, and their wings are as succulent and crispy as ever. If you’re one of the unfortunate people who have never tried their wings, you are in for a treat, because they certainly exceed those of any other restaurant in Collegetown.
While the full hours and menu aren’t yet set in stone, Leyva said the restaurant will have a similar menu and keep serving wings past 2 a.m. on weekends.
“I just ordered my favorite buffalo chicken wrap the other day,” she said. “I had no idea that that would be my last ever Wings Over Ithaca order.”
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