Center Ice Café

Center Ice Café is a defunct college cafeteria, formerly located on the southwestern side of the campus of Ferris State University in Big Rapids.

Fall 2006
This easily became a preferred secondary dining location for the Dozerfleet founder in the fall semester of 2006, offering generally better food offerings than the Rock offered. However, it had to compete with Westview for his time. This was due to the simple fact that most classes were being held in either the center of campus or on the northeast side, whereas Center Ice was out of the way on the southwest side. The Rock was the most convenient location, on the central southern side of campus right across from Brophy and McNerney Halls.

At one point, there were four major noteworthy cafeterias on campus: The Rock Café, Center Ice, Mascar, and Westview. Center Ice was included in |a paper comparing and contrasting it with the Rock for an ENGL 250 assignment.

Fall 2007
A move by the Dozerfleet founder from McNerney to North Bond, combined with the needless drama caused by deranged staff at the Rock in the summer, made Center Ice a favored new destination. A lot of pizza was eaten from this location, as well as the Thai cooking. A favorite video to eat that pizza to was "Operation Overkill: Get the Parchment" by BagOfMagicFood, which comedicaly mashed up clips from Power Rangers Operation Overdrive with Spaghetti-O commercials and clips from Pepper Ann and the 2003 Ninja Turtles cartoon - along with clips from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. The compilation was hilarious, albeit utterly nonsensical.

Spring 2008
With Mascar being shut down, the Rock, Center Ice, Quiznos, and the Market were about all that remained for dining centers.

Summer 2009
Center Ice finally closed its doors after the summer of 2009, forcing Bond Hall students in love with the diner to adapt to walking an extra 8th of a mile uphill to eat at The Rock instead. Last-minute snacking at 10:00 PM was no longer an option.

Ultimate fate
Center Ice was briefly was brought back as the Westside Cafe, but was then converted to the Southwest Commons. The on-campus Quiznos would later shut down in 2014, as the company at its corporate level restructured under chapter 11 bankruptcy. Westview was finally closed when the Rankin Center was taken down and replaced with the University Center, some time after the Dozerfleet founder graduated.

New places to purchase food on campus would eventually arrive, including a Starbucks in the fall of 2009 inside of IRC.

Trivia

 * Center Ice was themed heavily around sports, especially the campus' Bulldog hockey team.

Further viewing

 * Southwest Commons on Google Maps