Opinions:
Via email we were told the grass lots were closed and we'd have to park in vet med. Turning onto S 16th, they waved us into the student lots to park. Never actually used my parking pass. Not a big deal, but just seemed disorganized.
Beer lines: we were the people that did wait in line for an hour for beers. What looked like it would be maybe a 20-30 minute wait just kept going. When you feel like you're always 5 minutes away from getting your beverages, that's why people waited so long. Honestly terrible organization to not think a large portion of the crowd would want a beer. Chalk it up to Jack Trice not knowing how to run alcohol sales? IDK. Disappointed we missed a good part of Stapleton. At least for a concert you can still heart the music unlike a football game where you want to see what's happening on the field.
We dipped during George's set and we beat traffic. Glad we did.
When I went to the restroom, I looked at the beer sales areas and what I could see was that it was basically disorganized. They had too many counter people and not enough bar backs. Most of the counter people were running out of product and bar backs were scrambling hard to just push product to the counter people. Bad bottlenecks.
Then you had people trying to stock those fridges at times when people were pulling it at the same time. If you are pulling it from the cooler, just push product from the stacks and use the coolers to buy time when the bar backs are bringing more.
Most efficient I’ve seen at places are ones that have an ID line and you get banded, then a ticket sales line where you buy however many tickets you need. Then the beer line is walk up say I want two whatever and you hand them the tickets.
Ticket lines are usually nasty at the beginning but one positive is that you can buy several and you don’t have the pay line to contend with later. Also, most people buy a couple extra tickets just so they don’t have to stand in line so you will have hundreds of tickets not used which is 100% pure profit.
