Hilton genuinely has the worst concession stands I've ever experienced at a college/professional sports venue. Most high schools can do better.
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Is it the stands? Or the food? I would say the food needs a huge upgrade. Can't so anything about the stand itself until the renovation can start.
You could've stopped at "Wrigley blows"
Good point. We are in the RV Village, so I forget about how they use the Alumni Center on football gamedays for the band stepshow and more. My main point was more about doing it for basketball too.
My understanding is the stands cause issues as well as Levy is just bad at their jobs. Blum says they can figure out how to sell pizza in the current set up.
you will have a new vendor next year for Trice and Hilton
One middle store would be a SMOKE/VAPE shop that still sells pagers.
What about an Auto Parts store? Ames needs another one of those.
@CoachHines3 i can’t find it yet but there’s a joke in here regarding your close relativeWhat about a mattress store? Or are we past that boom now?
Ticket demand one could say was as strong or stronger before Campbell. Considering the expansion was in 2015 and Rhoads was averaging in the mid 50Ks, much of which the capacity was below 55k, Campbell averaged Mid to upper 50Ks, when the capacity is now 61.5K.
ISU has always done a really good job of putting butts in the seats regardless how bad the product on the field was. I am not sure why it is but you can look at some of the worst years and see our attendance was better than most schools out there even with better teams. Considering most years we are probably in the 90-95% capacity range, looking back through history. That is pretty much unheard of even in places with much better history than ISU.
Everyone else probably knows way more about this than I do, but I would have to agree with this.
For a while, it felt like concession stands out of the 80's (except for the prices, of course) were part of Hilton's charm, but we are WAY past that point, especially when you factor in what other organizations (even comparably-sized ones) are doing. The concessions would be more appealing if they represented better value or were of better quality, but I think they miss the mark on both. The Bird and I generally are at the point where we opt for dinner at a restaurant or home, before or after the game, with the exception of a soda if the line doesn't seem too crazy.
I personally would like to see them grow a bit in both areas. A few high-quality local or unique options with a more family/budget-friendly version of gameday "staples" would hit the mark for me, but I'm not sure how feasible that is in the CyTown era. I have concerns about the university's ability to draw high quality food options into CyTown, which would only be amplified if changes to Hilton's concessions made it a viable dinner option.
The idiots complaining about CyTown are also the ones that complained about SEZ being built and the RV Village being built. They lack vision and any sense at the impact this project when completed will be for ISU... Remember that Hilton is surrounding buildings are constantly holding events and Trice is even being used for concerts again.
I’ve become more skeptical on cytown but never once complained about SEZ or the RV Village. The rv village was practically a necessity because of the cytown construction. Your general statement makes you the only idiot here.
If you can't see the growth and expansion happening with the fanbase then you're blind. The company behind building CyTown has done the research and wouldn't be putting up tens of millions just to see it fail. And you don't have personal investments into its building so why not be positive about it? Nah, seems like you want the overall AD to struggle more without it.
