Very long lines with Chik F closed as was the concessions on the first base side. Finally late in the game the 1b side opened but it was a little late. Had to be really hungry to wait in those lines.....and a lot of folks did! Crowd was outstanding but not close to what SEC weekends will bring. We got some kinks to work out, but I am certain it will happen.
Concession stands at Dudy were crazy today....
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Don’t know how much this will change a big SEC weekend, but I heard concessions was short staffed due to the girls BB game at same time. I know video crew was short staffed also.
Give them a break guys, some of the folks working concessions were a little late from church that afternoon***
The chairback seats outside the Triple Crown Club are very cushy. Outstanding comfort and location behind home plate. I was there an hour Saturday and saw 2 Southern fans for about ten minutes. I saw four Southern fans today in the TCC. They all were with State friends. No big deal.
The lines were long, but the price and selection is making it more appealing to fans. Count me as one who will be more willing to eat at the new dude, as opposed to avoiding it at all cost before. It’s a double-edged sword for the school, though. Food is cheaper, but lines are longer.
ETA: We will get the kinks worked out. I'm surprised most things have appeared to go smoothly. It would be nice to have tables by the condiments so you can actually put you food down to dress your burger. As it is, there's not enough space to rest a thimble.
ETA: We will get the kinks worked out. I'm surprised most things have appeared to go smoothly. It would be nice to have tables by the condiments so you can actually put you food down to dress your burger. As it is, there's not enough space to rest a thimble.
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Would make sense to see Chick-fil-A booth used as a generic express concession stand with drinks and popcorn only (or whatever they decide) for Sunday games as that’s what they do at other ballparks like Mercedes-Benz Stadium in ATL.
Let's weigh the pros and cons:
Cons: you might have to wait 10 min for your turn at a juicy jumbo.
Some wealthy sack is sitting at home while you should be sitting in his chairback
Pros:
best NCAA stadium ever conceived
No more crooked neck or numb-*** syndrome
Baseball water is basically at-cost assuming you aren't a dumbass
Taj Mahal of college baseball sights everywhere
Thunder
Lightning
Smoke wafting all over the place
Winning
Top balcony blowjobs
The PROS have it.
Cons: you might have to wait 10 min for your turn at a juicy jumbo.
Some wealthy sack is sitting at home while you should be sitting in his chairback
Pros:
best NCAA stadium ever conceived
No more crooked neck or numb-*** syndrome
Baseball water is basically at-cost assuming you aren't a dumbass
Taj Mahal of college baseball sights everywhere
Thunder
Lightning
Smoke wafting all over the place
Winning
Top balcony blowjobs
The PROS have it.
What.... There is only room for 11 people in the The Triple Crown Club? Man that’s disappointing.
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Can you blame them?
They only wanted to see what a first rate facility looks like since they will NEVER have one in any sport.
Yeah I walked by twice and thought no way I would stand in a line like that for popcorn popped Thursday night or a nasty Polk's hot dog. In the "Old Dude" though you missed two innings of the game at the concession, at least now you can stand in line and still see the game.
I swear you troll this board looking for chances to trash Cohen or the baseball program.
Is it that hard to avoid the topic? You obviously know very little about it. Just post on something else.
Lines were long
1. Chick Fil-A and LC Pizza have more "window space" than they need. We are not utilizing the excess space well.
2. Concessions need a kiosk/table setup down both left and right field that has candy, bottle drinks, peanuts and popcorn.
3. I didn't see any outfield concessions when I walked around the other day. A simple booth for items like drinks and popcorn would help thin that out too. I may be wrong on that though. If they were there, I missed it.
4. The athletic department needs to make a push to ask people to bring cash only. Cash only transactions move at twice the rate card transactions do. It would speed up time. I know it is impossible to eliminate card transactions but if you could get a larger percentage using cash it would help.
5. They need to address the condiment situation a poster above mentioned.
That said, the ballpark is awesome. And it feels good to be complaining about concession stand lines in week two. It will sort itself out in time. This week provided the university a good sample size of traffic/transaction numbers. I also thought the skeleton crew at the baseball game in concessions was probably the result of the basketball game next door. That makes sense.
For the record, it is awesome to see a February baseball weekend have long concession lines. The attendance was great even with the threat of weather.
1. Chick Fil-A and LC Pizza have more "window space" than they need. We are not utilizing the excess space well.
2. Concessions need a kiosk/table setup down both left and right field that has candy, bottle drinks, peanuts and popcorn.
3. I didn't see any outfield concessions when I walked around the other day. A simple booth for items like drinks and popcorn would help thin that out too. I may be wrong on that though. If they were there, I missed it.
4. The athletic department needs to make a push to ask people to bring cash only. Cash only transactions move at twice the rate card transactions do. It would speed up time. I know it is impossible to eliminate card transactions but if you could get a larger percentage using cash it would help.
5. They need to address the condiment situation a poster above mentioned.
That said, the ballpark is awesome. And it feels good to be complaining about concession stand lines in week two. It will sort itself out in time. This week provided the university a good sample size of traffic/transaction numbers. I also thought the skeleton crew at the baseball game in concessions was probably the result of the basketball game next door. That makes sense.
For the record, it is awesome to see a February baseball weekend have long concession lines. The attendance was great even with the threat of weather.
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Not true at all. When everyone was melting down about the hitting Friday night, I posted that we're taking the right approach at the plate and I like what I've seen from Lemonis so far. The stadium overall is incredible. Just could have easily been better in a couple of areas and it's frustrating they didn't pay attention to those details. If I can easily get a ticket to grandstand seats, I plan to make it up for a game or two this spring.
Remember how bad the concession lines were in the Hump at the beginning of the season? Cohen heard our complaints and fixed that problem. I'm sure he will do something about this as well.
In my opinion, there are a few different ways to fix the problem. One would be to open up the Chick-Fil-A stand with regular food on Sundays. We also have plenty of room to bring in more of the portable rolling food stands. All they had out there this weekend was a Lemonade stand and a popcorn stand. Neither took cards, and both ran out of product very early in the day. Also, they could set up more drink stands with a large ice chest and a table. Simple solution really. And what about hiring some high school kids to walk up and down the steps with drinks like they do at minor league games?
They need to have more food options and that can be fixed with roll up food carts. If we're going to make GA people stand the entire game because we didn't add enough GA seating, then we at least need to have more food options.
In my opinion, there are a few different ways to fix the problem. One would be to open up the Chick-Fil-A stand with regular food on Sundays. We also have plenty of room to bring in more of the portable rolling food stands. All they had out there this weekend was a Lemonade stand and a popcorn stand. Neither took cards, and both ran out of product very early in the day. Also, they could set up more drink stands with a large ice chest and a table. Simple solution really. And what about hiring some high school kids to walk up and down the steps with drinks like they do at minor league games?
They need to have more food options and that can be fixed with roll up food carts. If we're going to make GA people stand the entire game because we didn't add enough GA seating, then we at least need to have more food options.
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That's because you have no choice. There's nothing to complain about. Anybody melting down about this team, after last year, should be regarded in the same light as Stingray.
Nice bait, but the program will be just fine without your attendance. You're the exact type fan that we should NOT be catering to. It's still hilarious to me. Let's put another 5-6 million into a stadium so patdog can "easily get a chairback once or twice". EL OH EL. Of course, at this point I think you're trolling, so I guess the joke's on me.
I’m not gonna ***** too much about long waits for concessions, as I’ve kind of expected that at most every sporting / concert / other special event that I have ever attended. That being said, why in the hell would the 1B concession stand (as well as all others) not be open starting at minimum of 2 hrs before first pitch and going through the whole game? That makes no sense at all. All major concession stands should be open all game and every game, without exception. That’s just stupid and piss poor management for that not to be the case in any game, let alone in a weekend series against an in-state rival.
In the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, on Sundays the Chick-Fil-A storefronts are leased out to the vendors who use the space when Chick-Fil-A is traditionally closed. Can we do something similar at the dude?
So you're contending that we need the same amount of concession stands open for Tuesday against Jackson State as we do Saturday against Ole Miss?
As for the timing during the game, I would expect that not very many people are there buying concessions 2 hours before the game. Certainly not as many people are trying to buy a hot dog around the 8th inning.
I do like the idea of having "express stations" for bottled drinks and peanuts, candy, and other grab and go items. You could add those as needed based on expected demand.
Yes, I am. At least initially....for the major full service concession stands. Event management can always close one up if it looks like they aren’t needed about halfway through or so. A major concession stand has maybe 8-10 people making 8 bucks an hour for 4-5 hours. At the high end, that’s about $400 in labor costs per game to keep a given stand open. That’s about $12,000 per season per concession stand....at most. Chump change.....no reason not to offer up the best service for the folks that are now paying a much bigger premium for their seats than in the past. Some guy sitting in the end section at the top of the 1B side isn’t gonna want to walk all the way around to the 3B side for food....even if it is a Tuesday game against Jackson State.
No, they did not. Several were empty the entire game on Sunday. I sat in one around the 7th inning and was immediately asked for my ticket by staff. She said they are being very protective of those chairbacks. I went back to standing. No big deal, but I did think it was kind of dumb.
Some thoughts: *not bitching about stadium at all, best ballpark in College baseball, period.
1) the Sunday concession lines were inexcusable, I went to look 3 different times and wasn't about to stand in that line. There is no way those lines were any shorter than 30 minutes.
2) the Chick Fil A is kindof a waste honestly. I was wondering why they have had no line while the Little Caesars is stacked up. Then I noticed that you can only get a chicken sandwich and chips, that's it. As others have mentioned, it will also be closed for 1/3 of games that have decent attendance.
1) the Sunday concession lines were inexcusable, I went to look 3 different times and wasn't about to stand in that line. There is no way those lines were any shorter than 30 minutes.
2) the Chick Fil A is kindof a waste honestly. I was wondering why they have had no line while the Little Caesars is stacked up. Then I noticed that you can only get a chicken sandwich and chips, that's it. As others have mentioned, it will also be closed for 1/3 of games that have decent attendance.
If only we had an industrial engineering program to help with efficiencies...
My non-PE suggestions:
1) They should take your order and your $/credit card while you are in line and then will call your name/order # when ready. Takes too long for same person to take your order, take payment and make change, then fill your order while everyone else just waits behind you. Take note of how Disney handles short order concessions.
2) Have someone just filling drinks and placing them in a groove of Cokes, Diet Cokes, Sprites, etc. and they hand one from that when you order, rather than waiting and dispensing the drinks as you order. There would also be the same for popcorn, hot dogs, etc. (like they do the sliding burger rack at McDonald's) so the person filling orders is just grabbing the items on the order receipt and then calling your #.
At a recent basketball game, I watched and there were ~8 people in concession stand with 3 people doing most everything and 5 standing in the back waiting for someone to tell them what to do. It not a shortage of employees, there are just no real systems or efficiencies in place like it's a Starkville 7th grade basketball game concession stand.
My non-PE suggestions:
1) They should take your order and your $/credit card while you are in line and then will call your name/order # when ready. Takes too long for same person to take your order, take payment and make change, then fill your order while everyone else just waits behind you. Take note of how Disney handles short order concessions.
2) Have someone just filling drinks and placing them in a groove of Cokes, Diet Cokes, Sprites, etc. and they hand one from that when you order, rather than waiting and dispensing the drinks as you order. There would also be the same for popcorn, hot dogs, etc. (like they do the sliding burger rack at McDonald's) so the person filling orders is just grabbing the items on the order receipt and then calling your #.
At a recent basketball game, I watched and there were ~8 people in concession stand with 3 people doing most everything and 5 standing in the back waiting for someone to tell them what to do. It not a shortage of employees, there are just no real systems or efficiencies in place like it's a Starkville 7th grade basketball game concession stand.
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