<p>Haha, </p>
<p>So you can just designate the money to be charged to your bursar bill when you create an account?</p>
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<p>Yep! You can either charge the money to your bursar bill or to your credit card, whichever you prefer.</p>
<p>Can we use debit cards? If not, then how do you set up an account?</p>
<p>Citybucks can be used in collegetown, when you order stuff to your dorm via campusfood.com (thats the main food delivery website for Cornell - pizza, chinese, anything unhealthy basically). You can’t use citybucks on campus. It basically just works like Big red bucks or cornell card but for restaurants in ithaca. </p>
<p>I barely used it as a freshman, but used it quit a bit once I moved off campus. When I moved off campus soph year I had no meal plan, and my parents just gave me the money to use for food on campus, at the grocery store or restaurant, or had me use Cornell card/citybucks to charge it to my student account. </p>
<p>A lot of kids take advantage of city bucks because their parents see it as a dining charge on the busar bill and don’t know that it is to restuarants. I know people that would buy beer cases with citybucks at Jason’s, or even use it at Ruloff’s or stella’s when out at night drinking. I am definitely guilty of going out to get sushi/saki bombs at Plum tree on city bucks. </p>
<p>So just be sure not to abuse it. If you use it for the occasional take out meal or dinner instead of your meal plan then it is a good option. Just like cornell card, city bucks aren’t really necessary if you have a credit card. </p>
<p>Here is a list of restaurants that accept citybucks:</p>
<p><a href=“Residential Life | Student & Campus Life | Cornell University”>Residential Life | Student & Campus Life | Cornell University;
<p>thanks so much for your input, jcas! i’ve decided not to add money to my citybucks account yet…as a freshman with the 14 meals/week plan, ill probably stick to the dining hall and BRBs. i can see citybucks becoming really useful in the future, though.</p>