When I was a kid my mum used to take 2 thermoses- 1 with hot water and hot dogs in it so she could make them at the game, the other with hot water for a cup of tea. I once asked her if she ever got the two confused and my father's face lit up and my mother shut him down quickly and said "NO!".Originally Posted by YvonneH
I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time
Essentially the way stadium deals work is the catering contract goes to the company that offers the largest upfront and/or guaranteed
payment to the stadium. Then it's the usual race to the bottom as the company that ends up with the deal attempts to recoup their investment
as fast as they can by offering the lowest levels of service and quality at as high a price as they can get away with from the captive market
at a game. These big catering companies are so large I'd be surprised if the people "running" these businesses in the US, or UK or France
even knows their organisation has the contract at the SCG. Basically no one cares.
The quality and price is one thing, but it's the slow service that doesn't make sense. The bar is the worst. It's like they have a system: a person taking money and a person pouring. But they swap around, watch each other, do nothing, etc. Useless.
I assume its in the caterers interest to sell as much food, beer etc as possible, so the faster they go, the better for everyone.
This is certainly the case for the bars in the Bradman concourse. Staff there are almost always hopeless - slow, inefficient, and it's nigh on impossible to get a beer during the match without missing at least half a quarter. They've been like that since the stand opened and a reason why I'm looking at sitting elsewhere next season.
I gave up before the game and came back at quarter time. There was NOTHING ready and the line was crazy long as everybody waited for warm food. Quarter time, there was nobody there and plenty of food.
Life's not a spectator sport
You think your experience will be different in any other part of the ground?
Yep, don't come to the O'Reilly, at a big game like Saturday it's hopeless.
(although if you walk round the old hill, you can get real beer)
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way you'll be a mile away and he'll be shoeless.
Lol please don't ruin my delusion!
There is a nice little bar at the back of the Trumper stand, upstairs, which is quite good for a quiet beer before the main game, ie Ressies half time, but I'm not sure how busy it gets during the match. I'm aiming for that direction next year - also away from the sometimes odious visiting fans that are most concentrated in the Bradman concourse.
This year is the worst it has ever been, and that is saying something.
Today's a draft of your epitaph
Longmires fault!
No point in having a catering plan b if the team can't/won't implement it under pressure 😉Longmires fault!
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