Stadium food

TheLuker said:
I'm a Blackpool fan and my expectation is that the players and all behind the scenes try their best to be as competitive as they can be on the pitch. Thay, in a nutshell is it.

If, as you say, the fanbase expects better quality and wider variety of food thenwhy have the initiatives such as Macros health wraps and the biryianis failed?

And why should you get "value for money" from the food and beverage offerings? If i want value for money I buy at Lidl. I would never expect value for money from food and drink bought at an entertainment venue.

I hope to God that BST doesn't raise this nonsense with the club as they have enough on their plate and shouldn't be expected to be serving a variety of nutritious, value for money meals and beverages for the needy few.
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I don’t disagree that all the players and staff do whatever they can to make the team as competitive as possible - that should always be a given.

Football clubs operate in the hospitality sector providing food and refreshment to paying customers - the fans . Therefore the fans have the right to say what they do and do not like in terms of price, quality and choice etc.

The ‘food’ prices are ridiculous at the club, a slight increase on shop prices is to be expected but the club prices far exceed that So, and I hope you can get this, by value for money I mean providing a wide variety or good quality food at competitive prices which many many other clubs of all sizes do up and down the country. Maybe the ‘needy few’ you alude to are more than you think and are slightly more discerning that the ‘happy with a cheap pint’ brigade and want more than cheap beer, a pie and a packet of crisps from Lidl 😂
 
Seasidedaz said:
I don’t disagree that all the players and staff do whatever they can to make the team as competitive as possible - that should always be a given.

Football clubs operate in the hospitality sector providing food and refreshment to paying customers - the fans . Therefore the fans have the right to say what they do and do not like in terms of price, quality and choice etc.

The ‘food’ prices are ridiculous at the club, a slight increase on shop prices is to be expected but the club prices far exceed that So, and I hope you can get this, by value for money I mean providing a wide variety or good quality food at competitive prices which many many other clubs of all sizes do up and down the country. Maybe the ‘needy few’ you alude to are more than you think and are slightly more discerning that the ‘happy with a cheap pint’ brigade and want more than cheap beer, a pie and a packet of crisps from Lidl 😂
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All entertainment venues have significant mark up on shop prices to cover things like rent, rates, utilities, staff, insurance, taxes etc etc. Why should our club be any different?

And with the club already losing millions of pounds a year, who do you want to subsidise this incredible food offering that you demand?
 
TheLuker said:
All entertainment venues have significant mark up on shop prices to cover things like rent, rates, utilities, staff, insurance, taxes etc etc. Why should our club be any different?

And with the club already losing millions of pounds a year, who do you want to subsidise this incredible food offering that you demand?
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Dear me, I’m not asking anyone to subsidise a good food offering. Good quality food, with well sourced ingredients and reasonably priced will sell in high volumes and make profit. How do you think good restaurants and even blooming McDonalds make big profits .
 
Seasidedaz said:
I don’t disagree that all the players and staff do whatever they can to make the team as competitive as possible - that should always be a given.

Football clubs operate in the hospitality sector providing food and refreshment to paying customers - the fans . Therefore the fans have the right to say what they do and do not like in terms of price, quality and choice etc.

The ‘food’ prices are ridiculous at the club, a slight increase on shop prices is to be expected but the club prices far exceed that So, and I hope you can get this, by value for money I mean providing a wide variety or good quality food at competitive prices which many many other clubs of all sizes do up and down the country. Maybe the ‘needy few’ you alude to are more than you think and are slightly more discerning that the ‘happy with a cheap pint’ brigade and want more than cheap beer, a pie and a packet of crisps from Lidl 😂
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What utter utter Rollocks do you ever go to an away game where the prices are often dearer than us?

Name all these clubs that are charging less for a Pie(not early bird deals) because I don't see it.
 
poolseasider said:
What utter utter Rollocks do you ever go to an away game where the prices are often dearer than us?

Name all these clubs that are charging less for a Pie(not early bird deals) because I don't see it.
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I have never said clubs are charging us less for a pie etc - if you read my post I have said clubs up and down the country are offering a far better quality and choice of food than us.
 
Seasidedaz said:
I have never said clubs are charging us less for a pie etc - if you read my post I have said clubs up and down the country are offering a far better quality and choice of food than us.
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Which clubs?
The majority it's bog standard pies,hot dogs and beer.

PL newer grounds sometimes offer something different .

You also said reasonably priced where does that happen even Fleetwood charge more than us.
 
poolseasider said:
Which clubs?
The majority it's bog standard pies,hot dogs and beer.

PL newer grounds sometimes offer something different .

You also said reasonably priced where does that happen even Fleetwood charge more than us.
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Have a look at Footie Scran on Twitter or even the post at the top of this thread my friend 👍
 
Seasidedaz said:
Have a look at Footie Scran on Twitter or even the post at the top of this thread my friend 👍
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A lot of those are served OUTSIDE the ground on that site or some type of corporate or fan zone that ain't served in-
a.majority of the ground.
b.To away fans

Sadler has enough on his plate with training ground and East Stand without spending hundreds of thousands doing up the concessions so they can serve chips.👍
 
Seasidedaz said:
Dear me, I’m not asking anyone to subsidise a good food offering. Good quality food, with well sourced ingredients and reasonably priced will sell in high volumes and make profit. How do you think good restaurants and even blooming McDonalds make big profits .
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I think the only thing that a football club should focus on sourcing well is players.

And now you want the club to offer food that is reasonably priced and sells in high volumes so that the club is profitable like McDonalds? Jeez...
 
JJpool said:
Maybe if you'd have launched the recently acquired hotdog at Danilo things might have been different.
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At £4.50 a pop! Have a word… The hot chocolate would have scolded too. I only managed to drink that 10 minutes into the second half… of extra time! 🤣
 
poolseasider said:
A lot of those are served OUTSIDE the ground on that site or some type of corporate or fan zone that ain't served in-
a.majority of the ground.
b.To away fans

Sadler has enough on his plate with training ground and East Stand without spending hundreds of thousands doing up the concessions so they can serve chips.👍
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I don't think there's any harm in looking to improve where possible and if viable.

As said earlier in the thread, it may be a limitation somewhat of the poor facilities inherited that limits some things, but it will be interesting to see if they go a fanzone route eventually or when the east is built what they plan to do there. I doubt it'll be as unambitious as an Oyston stand.

SS won't get involved in every aspect of the club, that's why he has suitable people in positions to do these things.
 
TheLuker said:
I think the only thing that a football club should focus on sourcing well is players.

And now you want the club to offer food that is reasonably priced and sells in high volumes so that the club is profitable like McDonalds? Jeez...
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Oh dear !!!! 😂😂😂 heaven forbid the club should run on a sustainable basis !! Some people deary deary me 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
 
Parky1953 said:
At £4.50 a pop! Have a word… The hot chocolate would have scolded too. I only managed to drink that 10 minutes into the second half… of extra time! 🤣
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Maybe just a quids worth of crust, might have attracted a flock of seagulls to ruin the moment for him.

Be like a scene from the birds.
 
JJpool said:
I don't think there's any harm in looking to improve where possible and if viable.

As said earlier in the thread, it may be a limitation somewhat of the poor facilities inherited that limits some things, but it will be interesting to see if they go a fanzone route eventually or when the east is built what they plan to do there. I doubt it'll be as unambitious as an oyston Stand.

SS won't get involved in every aspect of the club, that's why he has suitable people in positions to do these things.
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I agree the Heineken and Morreti (the one I use) lounges are a brilliant addition to the ground that's an improvement and brings in money.

We had problems in the North getting served and they opened a bar outside in the smoking area.

The club will be looking for new ideas but do I really think that doing a wrap,curry,Pizza etc will make much difference not sure.
 
poolseasider said:
I agree the Heineken and Morreti (the one I use) lounges are a brilliant addition to the ground that's an improvement and brings in money.

We had problems in the North getting served and they opened a bar outside in the smoking area.

The club will be looking for new ideas but do I really think that doing a wrap,curry,Pizza etc will make much difference not sure.
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A bit like the beer upgrade will have more people buying the beer so would certain food upgrades.

It's about getting the most out of what we have too, some still can't get served at HT, I know they brought in those machines in the North but no idea how that went, remember reading some issues still.

Just on a side point I'm in the north but enter in the west and use that concourse. What you do notice is the beer que is usually pretty quiet and the food one always busy.
 
Tangerine Tractor said:
Should clubs look to make big profits on stadium food and drink? Or should it be priced to encourage fans to use it? And what about the choice and quality? Is getting some decent food at the ground part of the matchday experience? Does it make a difference as to whether some people attend matches?

Brentford charge £6.95 thr this burger and waffle fries. We charge more than that for two bags of Maltesers.

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Doesn’t the club tender the food and drink out,to outside caterers,maybe upstairs is kept in house,I don’t know.
 
More outside caterers if they are paying rent to club. Let them bring the food into ground if they get their hand stamped. Beer festival at each home game, get into the german/fans zone life.
 
Tangerine Tractor said:
One of the issues is the price of chocolate and crisps and stuff for kids. You expect to pay a premium inside the ground, but it’s more than double what it is in the shops. It’s blatant profiteering. And parents are under pressure from the kids.
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Get yourself in B & M or Home Bargains then pre-match to stock up and save yourself some £££ or if you can’t be arsed doing that just pay the prices in the ground.
 
Tangerine Tractor said:
Should clubs look to make big profits on stadium food and drink? Or should it be priced to encourage fans to use it? And what about the choice and quality? Is getting some decent food at the ground part of the matchday experience? Does it make a difference as to whether some people attend matches?

Brentford charge £6.95 thr this burger and waffle fries. We charge more than that for two bags of Maltesers.

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How the Hell do you eat that at a game! Bad enough when we went to an Everyman theatre recently and had a burger and chips brought to our seat - looked like the Boston massacre down my shirt by the time the film had finished!
 
The clubs local to me here in Birmingham do a really good job on their food offerings and have attracted some of the best street food vendors. A few years ago Villa partnered with the big local street food organisation, Digbeth Dining Club, who got a number of decent offerings inside the stadium (the chicken tikka in naan bread and seekh kebabs are good, Pietanic do amazing pies 100 x better than the bog standard meat and potato etc) ,whilst Birmingham City has attracted a number of decent vendors around the stadium (although the same dodgy hotdog and burger vans are still there too). Not being local I don't know if there's an equivalent Blackpool based version of Digbeth Dining Club that the club could partner with to curate some better food options.
 
Seasidedaz said:
I have never said clubs are charging us less for a pie etc - if you read my post I have said clubs up and down the country are offering a far better quality and choice of food than us.
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I haven’t been to any grounds where the food offering is better . It’s snack food .
 
TwelveAngryMen said:
I agree with Phil that the club should look to make a decent profit on refreshments

Equally the choice at BFC is pretty uninspiring

As an aside the one place you can't buy food is in the Moretti ( and presumably Heineken ) Lounge

You can have your free pie but that's your lot even if they have spare

Bit bizarre
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They've seen the state of you lot and they're attempting to look after your wellbeing - very public spirited if you ask me 👍
 
Not a fan of the meat and potato pies this season, but the steak pies are OK (still not got over the absence of the pasties from last season)

Had a steak pie and a pint of Cruzcampo (decent pint) on Saturday for £5.50, and I thought that was pretty good value.
Even places outside the ground would struggle to compete with that offer?
 
Tango1953 said:
Whether you understand why they do or not, people do, for a huge variety of reasons. As for who goes for the food, no-one, certainly not with the current Bloomfield Road offerings.

You don't go for the food, but having a tasty palatable option at the ground is useful for a wide range of people.

-Dads taking their kids to the game as part of a day out. They'd need to eat anyway, so somewhere convenient to do it at the ground if there's a good option would reduce the logistics of the day.
-People traveling from outside Blackpool, their day isn't as simple as leaving home at 2.30, walking to the ground, and being back by 5.15pm. They may leave their home at 12 and get back at 8, specifically to go to the ground to watch the game. Giving them a convenient food option would maybe give them one less stop off in their day.
-People on shift work who finish work just before the game starts, or start just after the game ends, can head straight to the ground, get their food, and watch the game.

I',m sure there's plenty of other demographics and routines I haven't considered. And that's quite aside from just getting people to want to go there because the food and drink options are worth it.
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On a home matchday, I usually leave the house at 11.15 and get home around 7.30.

Night games I don't normally get back until after midnight. I appreciate being able to get something to eat.

I'd do it in the Armfield but they stopped doing pies😉
 
I think some healthy options would be welcome, like a fruit stall selling tangerines. We could have sold apples as well, but that's too last season.
Snake butties anyone?
 
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