Winter weather is not keeping all students inside this season.

Many local bars and restaurants thrive on the year-round business college students bring, with winter being no exception.

The Gingerbread Man, 130 Hiester St., has yet to feel the burden of the cold weather, manager Ed Hess said. Late-night lines wrapping around outside the Gingerbread Man's doors are a familiar sight on weekends.

"We are still as busy as we ever were," Hess said. "We are actually doing better than last year at this time."

State College is not done with the harsh winter by any means, said Alex Sosnowski, senior meteorologist at AccuWeather, 619 W. College Ave.

"We get weather patterns like this every two to four years," Sosnowski said, noting the severe cold and wind is nothing new to the area. "We have just been spoiled the last couple years with unseasonably warm weather."

Most State College bars require customers to stand and wait outside and only let as many people in as are coming out.

"When it is this cold out, I won't stand in long lines at bars anymore," Dean Spiridon (junior-accounting) said.

Otto's Pub and Brewery, 2105 N. Atherton St., has no complaints about business, manager Kelly Garthwaite said.

"I can't say that it has affected us much at all. We still have a wait on the weekends," she said.

Even when employees plan for the worst because of weather, things just seem to pick up and surprise them, Garthwaite said.

Some people prefer to stay warm indoors and order food, said Susie Fuller (junior-psychology).

"It's so much easier to have someone else do the dirty work, and most of the time we feel bad and tip better anyway," Fuller said.

Jimmy John's, 220 W. College Ave., has experienced a lag in their dine-in customers, said manager Kristina Giles.

"It has been slower in shop, but the delivery has really picked up a lot," Giles said. "We have only been back a few weeks. ... People still need to get into the swing of things."

Sosnowski said locals can soon expect a brief break from the severe cold.

"The temperatures are going to gradually ease their way up, starting Wednesday," he said.