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Post by johnstones on Aug 16, 2013 6:23:36 GMT
It does have a connection to the club, as the club needs to have such a food outlet a football ground. The club presumably have gone with this option of outside caterers to start with as it saved more costs and people and operation time while the stadium was being brought into use. If they end up wit a lot of dissatisfied supporters through poor food or high costs then it is not going to look good as part of the match day experience of coming to watch Maidstone play. There were a lot fathers who brought the children along last year because we were home again and in town and it saved a lot on costs in going up to London to watch who ever they went to see. We don't need them to feel they are being ripped off paying London prices as its a negative for the club if they see the food prices as being excessively high.
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Post by pete on Aug 16, 2013 7:38:29 GMT
It does have a connection to the club, as the club needs to have such a food outlet a football ground. The club presumably have gone with this option of outside caterers to start with as it saved more costs and people and operation time while the stadium was being brought into use. If they end up wit a lot of dissatisfied supporters through poor food or high costs then it is not going to look good as part of the match day experience of coming to watch Maidstone play. There were a lot fathers who brought the children along last year because we were home again and in town and it saved a lot on costs in going up to London to watch who ever they went to see. We don't need them to feel they are being ripped off paying London prices as its a negative for the club if they see the food prices as being excessively high. Exactly, and one would have thought that during the negotiations for how much rent the burger people pay the club there would have been some discussion about the prices they would be charging the fans? Not sure how long their agreements are for, maybe one season at a time, but if either party feels it is not working for them then presumably the club get someone else in. PS I have very rarely used it but then I don't often buy food in any football ground!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2013 8:04:05 GMT
Have to agree with Pete's "PS" (this along with my comment re beer consumption makes me look a right killjoy but...) what happened to lunch before a game, dinner after? I suppose it's the fact that if I go to a game I'm spending a bomb on petrol. Sittingbourne it used to be a McDonalds before the game. Or quick lunch before leaving Oxford at 1215. Dulwich away, didn't eat until half way home about 11 o'clock. No wonder I'm so svelte and elegant, is it? (I've got a colleague who moans every Monday about what he spent on snacks for his family at the cinema the day before...)
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Post by nws on Aug 16, 2013 9:51:48 GMT
Absolutely, Oxford. I rarely use football ground catering because of the prices. You could eat at 2pm and then again at 5pm and guess what you will have survived a whole 3 hours without food!
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Post by tim on Aug 16, 2013 12:56:25 GMT
But some people see it as part the whole match experience, beer, a burger and the match! If you applied that logic you might as well close all the restaurants and takeaway outlets as you could eat breakfast in the mornings at home, make sandwiches for lunch, and buy food to cook at home in the evening! Be a boring old world though
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Post by ipswichstoneden on Aug 16, 2013 13:03:18 GMT
I have to say that the only people to blame for food prices at football grounds are the customers. They are the only ones that can force prices down by voting with their wallet and not buying it! Some people can afford it and do so anyway but until people make a stand on this, they will continue to get ripped off. OK, I appreciate some people want to eat something at the match but what is so hard about taking a lunch box?
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