Food & Drink Prices - Next Season

[Ducado]

I really don't like mass catering at any event, it's all the same expensive and not very good, the coffee is not that bad though

 

[urmston]

I have not bought any food or drink in the stadium since 1973ish when I was a young lad easily parted from his money.

In recent years since we've all been forced to sit down I've taken a small flask of coffee and a Kit Kat, changing from white coffee and a 4 finger Kit Kat to black coffee and a Chunky Kit Kat in about 2002-2003.

 

[stonerblue]

It's football . Who cares?<br /><br />-- Fri May 31, 2013 7:18 pm --<br /><br />

The Price, quality of service and food make me cringe,
there seems to be a lot of fans with the same grievance.
would it not be worth staging some kind of protest via the clubs tweet or other social network they use. maybe even flood every social inlet they use to try and get the message across.
Ive tried writing emails myself, but im convinced they just go straight to the delete box.

maybe try and hit them where it really hurts and organise a "no eat at the stadium" protest for 2 or 3 games. It would be amusing to see all catering stands void of us mugs whilst the half wits behind the counters stand there picking thier noses or comparing the love bites on thier necks... trying not to be too offensive but these people would'nt even get employed by mac donalds.

Is that your first post??

jesusfuckinchristonabike!!!!!

 

[LoveCity]

What's the food like at sporting events in other countries? Anyone?

 

[Bill]

Not being funny but the food is made as well as it can be on such a rush, like to see one of you lot being put to the test of cooking the food or even being a till worker

nothing much wrong with the food on the whole. its the presentation and price that needs looking at.

as for the tills don't make me laugh, a brain dead donkey can press 3 or 4 buttons. the management of each and every kiosk is a joke, there seems no team leader, no runners, no stock control. I could run that kiosk in my dinner hour. I would hire my own staff, I would train them in customer care, in awareness and job satisfaction. I would have the same staff at the same kiosk every game. there would soon be an understanding of the customer you are serving which i'm sure changes from stand to stand.
people buy from people, a relationship develops and people begin to care about each other. on both sides of the counter.
people WILL pay those prices if they are served in the right way and enjoy their experience of visiting the ground.

 

[hoyage]

Not being funny but the food is made as well as it can be on such a rush, like to see one of you lot being put to the test of cooking the food or even being a till worker

nothing much wrong with the food on the whole. its the presentation and price that needs looking at.

as for the tills don't make me laugh, a brain dead donkey can press 3 or 4 buttons. the management of each and every kiosk is a joke, there seems no team leader, no runners, no stock control. I could run that kiosk in my dinner hour. I would hire my own staff, I would train them in customer care, in awareness and job satisfaction. I would have the same staff at the same kiosk every game. there would soon be an understanding of the customer you are serving which i'm sure changes from stand to stand.
people buy from people, a relationship develops and people begin to care about each other. on both sides of the counter.
people WILL pay those prices if they are served in the right way and enjoy their experience of visiting the ground.

That's like when I used to work behind a bar. You knew what they was going to have the moment they walked in the door. Half the people who came in we referred to by what they drank because we didn't know there names. The only think that confuses me is all this talk of Jamie Oliver I though he was running the posh food side and us commoners where being served by the American firm?

 

[ballinio]

The Price, quality of service and food make me cringe,
there seems to be a lot of fans with the same grievance.
would it not be worth staging some kind of protest via the clubs tweet or other social network they use. maybe even flood every social inlet they use to try and get the message across.
Ive tried writing emails myself, but im convinced they just go straight to the delete box.

maybe try and hit them where it really hurts and organise a "no eat at the stadium" protest for 2 or 3 games. It would be amusing to see all catering stands void of us mugs whilst the half wits behind the counters stand there picking thier noses or comparing the love bites on thier necks... trying not to be too offensive but these people would'nt even get employed by mac donalds.

i`ve been doing this `no eat at the stadium` protest for 10 years , doesnt work mate. Can never understand why people cant go without food or beer for just 2hours while in the ground & then moan about the prices ? just eat before & after , not hard is it ffs

 

[andyhinch]

Not being funny but the food is made as well as it can be on such a rush, like to see one of you lot being put to the test of cooking the food or even being a till worker

nothing much wrong with the food on the whole. its the presentation and price that needs looking at.

as for the tills don't make me laugh, a brain dead donkey can press 3 or 4 buttons. the management of each and every kiosk is a joke, there seems no team leader, no runners, no stock control. I could run that kiosk in my dinner hour. I would hire my own staff, I would train them in customer care, in awareness and job satisfaction. I would have the same staff at the same kiosk every game. there would soon be an understanding of the customer you are serving which i'm sure changes from stand to stand.
people buy from people, a relationship develops and people begin to care about each other. on both sides of the counter.
people WILL pay those prices if they are served in the right way and enjoy their experience of visiting the ground.

Exactly this, you run a business to maximise turnover as long as you know your profit margins, why have people queuing up getting pissed off for something you want to sell and they want to buy?

 

[Bill]

Will they rise from next season under Jamie Oliver and the Yankee catering co.??

Any ideas on the quality of food?

Will the service improve?

Thoughts...

Let's hope so, I find the catering at city is a total shambles from start to finish.
If I retire anytime soon I'm going to offer to run that department at city free of charge. It is a complete and utter disaster. Food is OK ish, prices are where football has been heading for a while but the organisation and general running of the operation is pure amateur.

One little incident on the last game v Norwich. Wife wants food so I pop down to the concourse, its around ten mins before half time, I hate missing the game but as we all know once half time arrives you can't get served ( again badly run)so I legged it down sharpish. there was NOTHING to buy, nothing on the shelves. I hear them talking behind the counter that some chips were ready, that'll do I'll have chips and curry. When I asked for a fork they said they'd "ran out sorry". Ran out? I'm possibly the first half time customer how could they "run out"? If they knew they'd ran out why not restock whilst the game was on? Are we saying there's no plastic forks in the stadium? How do they expect a customer to eat chips and more so curry, with their fingers? In the end I found a disgarded One nearby and asked them to wash it for me.god knows how other customers went on at the half time rush. Not that there was anything to buy.

Amatures.

How on earth we are going to meet the financial targets set I'll never know.

there was no food BEFORE KICK OFF at the Norwich game, I can`t see any excuse even though its end of contract etc... The club seem to put a lot of emphasis on catering but generally its disappointing. Was incredulous at Norwich game esp as my 4 year old son was hungry as f..k., at least hes too young to remember.

I realise it was end of contract but what you do is you send two vans to the cash and carry with club credit card and you bang five grands worth of pies in the place. Spread them over the kiosks.add 500 kit kats and thats something.OK you Dont make as much, you may break even or lose a few bob but you still offer the service.that way you keep your customer. Next time he'll think "best take our own food, theyll have nowt in" and an awful lot of revenue has gone.

There's a fuck off asda across the street ffs, send someone there for a van load of multi buys.

There really is no excuse for empty shelves.

 

[greeny-ctid]

It will probably be the same shit prices for the same 'ok' food! And also the same useless staff that have got a 'gcse' in being absolute tits that can't find their arse from there elbow. Apart from that everything's good haha, hope it anit £4 a pint though! If it is the club are really bending us over on this one!