I went to St. Louis this past weekend for a Cardinals game, and it was mind blowing how easy and efficient the concession stands were. They had a bunch of hot dogs and other things ready, and all you had to do was walk up, grab what you wanted, and then go to the cashier to pay for it. It was so fast there was basically no line. It would be awesome if JTS could do the same.
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I was at a concert in Denver at Empower Field, and I could walk into a little section with coolers, grab beer/water, and walk out through a scanner that billed my CC. i didn't stop at a cashier.
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Sure, but is it impressive? No. Once again, I never said I’m against it. I’d still go out at half if that would still be allowed. Just merely pointing out reality of the profit situation. Also, as much as I may not like JP at times, he has my full confidence that he’ll be able to find other means that will be bigger than 5%.
Keep charging the consumer more is not sustainable.
This is where I'm at too. I'm a small donor season ticket holder who has seen all costs increase the last few years. JP needs to be careful, season tickets were down this year and that trend will continue if you he continues to go deeper into the fans pockets. I know several people who are/were donors that didn't renew their seats this year.
Not everyone tailgates for hours prior to the game either though. Like a lot of younger fans with families, we've had to show up right before the game because of kids activities etc. On those days I would love to be able to enjoy a beer or two at a game. Get off your high horse, not everyone is drinking to get sh!t housed.
If somebody is looking to get loaded, they aren't going to do it on $12 tall boys...
If you're not against it then I'm not sure what you're doing, everyone has been pretty reasonable in there estimates of how much/little it would bring in. Nobody seems to think beer sales wipes out the $20m shortfall.
For f*ck sakes now you're just making things up.
Fans have to pay a god damn processing fee for a grass lot parking pass, do you think that's not making money for the AD? It all adds up.
I agree, the school needs to look into it and I'm sure they are. But if Beggers can't be choosers- are fans fine when suddenly they are deprived of their historical trend to pound 3 quick $0.83 Busch Lights at their own tail gate at halftime and instead are now locked in the stadium and forced to buy $10 Busch Lights in the concourse. Because just a heads up- if JTS starts selling alcohol the first thing shut down the ability to exit and reenter.
Sporting KC has this set up too, it's really slick. The only way you could do this at Jack Trice would be to tear down the current stands and build new.
If JP doesn’t believe we can profit anything from selling beer in the stadium, then fine, don’t do it.
But I don’t think he has said that has he? He said it’s because of people over indulging or something? Which is total BS…. that’s all I’m saying. If that’s really what he’s worried about, then don’t let people drink in the tailgate lots… or the restaurants in CyTown…. or the south end zone, etc. He’s being hypocritical if that’s the reason he’s using.
But I don’t think he has said that has he? He said it’s because of people over indulging or something? Which is total BS…. that’s all I’m saying. If that’s really what he’s worried about, then don’t let people drink in the tailgate lots… or the restaurants in CyTown…. or the south end zone, etc. He’s being hypocritical if that’s the reason he’s using.
Last year as a season ticket holder I was able to purchase individual public parking passes. Is that not an option this year?
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No you can … its just annoying you have to do each game as a individual transaction.
