ANDY Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 Do centreparc supply any other clubs facilities ? How do they compare/perform. surely a lucrative contract like swfc would have companies fighting over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paolo Di Catio Posted July 22, 2016 Author Share Posted July 22, 2016 Quite a few, Bradford, Celtic, Donny, Sunderland, Portsmouth, Bury, Ipswich, Millwall, Toytown, Inverness, Hibs Few rugby & cricket teams, And surprisingly Liverpool Arena. How on earth have they managed to make such a boobies up at ours? http://centerplate.co.uk/venue-partners/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANDY Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 3 minutes ago, Paolo Di Catio said: Quite a few, Bradford, Celtic, Donny, Sunderland, Portsmouth, Bury, Ipswich, Millwall, Toytown, Inverness, Hibs Few rugby & cricket teams, And surprisingly Liverpool Arena. How on earth have they managed to make such a boobies up at ours? http://centerplate.co.uk/venue-partners/ Wow that has surprised me. Are they all as Shi'ite as what we get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paolo Di Catio Posted July 22, 2016 Author Share Posted July 22, 2016 Mackems have got a fan park and Portsmouth have got their own beer! A world away from our sold out pies and standing around for 20mins to get a pint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modboy Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 All they need is fast beer service and pies. No one goes to a footy match for owt else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mirodo Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 3 hours ago, areNOTwhatTHEYseem said: Who provides the buns and sauce? Evening all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspector Lestrade Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 6 hours ago, elyowl1 said: Scunthorpe away last pre season , foot long Lincolnshire hotdog with onions for £4 , far better than anything we serve up £4 quid for a crappy a sausage, is poor value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sMacLean Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 Lot of food places have the Rollover hotdogs now at £1.75 -£2 each Think MK Dons are the only Champ side that has them but at £3.60 stadium price , make them £2.50 or so and they'd be an improvement. Other than that if they get the drinks and pies amounts/timings right imagine most will take that as a start. At Northampton we've got Centerplate on a 10 year deal from 2014, poor too and so expensive that even a lot of London away fans refuse to buy anything, including the lukewarm foil bag burgers.Luckily lots of food chains and good food right outside so think they give up competing.Think we should have in house catering to have control over it and with a franchise system or just some good products it can be so much better.Centerplate seem to be pot luck as to what they do for you, their Sunderland guy won a big national catering award last year and they seem to do a lot for Portsmouth in the lower levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coyt Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 7 hours ago, ANDY said: Do centreparc supply any other clubs facilities ? How do they compare/perform. surely a lucrative contract like swfc would have companies fighting over it. Do they supply swimming pools and family bike rides? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manila_Owl Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 Generally it's the same comments. Speed and price. 1) More staff/better system of ordering/delivery. The fact a steward has to help pour pints at the tiny kiosk on Lower kop is laughable. Pre-pour drinks - if someone asks for a fresh one then make it, but I would guess not many would be bothered to ask. 2) More simple, easy to serve food. Pies and sausage rolls are ideal as you can just bung in a bag and serve. I hate being stuck behind someone that decides to order 3 trays of chips which takes the teenager 10 minutes to plate up. 3) Sauces/seasoning in sachets - You want ketchup? here's a sachet now do one. Salt? take this sachet and gtfo of the queue area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VictoryBell Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 7 hours ago, modboy said: All they need is fast beer service and pies. No one goes to a footy match for owt else I sometimes watch the match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANDY Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 If it's gonna cost £1m to cancel the contract. Id rather stick with it and put that money in the squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james o connor Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 Wouldn't eat any of that tat , Tbf I don't see why people need to eat at the footy anyway. As for beer, the fan zone at man city is brilliant . Scares me to think what clubs like that make income wise compared to us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theowlsman Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 Noodle bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Maxine Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 Veggi pies. spicey wedges nachos cheese toasties pot noodles chips n cheese jacket spuds made myself hungry now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodger Wylde II Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 HOT, not lukewarm, drinks in winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick_Turpin Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 2 hours ago, folger said: No matter who provides the catering we will always be complaining. Ours is in line with the rest of the league. Everything's expensive and the staff are foetuses paid probably below minimum wage. The only possible way to improve would be to appoint a chain food company. If we took it in house we'd probably end up like tickets and the shirts - the most expensive in the division. Maybe categorise it - have premium pricing for big games. £5 a pie for the Villa game. £3 for Burton Albion. Get onto it DC - there's brass to be made. Might drop the relish though - not a fan of black shorts. Probably anti-black condiments too. So on second thoughts..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew_Owl Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 13 hours ago, jamese said: Staff who can actually add up This, bought a drink a few seasons ago, think it was £1.40 so I gave her £2, took her about 30 seconds to work out how much change I needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bing Cosby Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 I'm sorry if this is really boring but I'd like to give my two penneth... Now I don't have much experience in large scale contract catering but here are my thoughts... I've been working in the hospitality industry for nearly two decades and am still amazed that people can manage to do it so badly... A company like Centerplate will have a multi million pound turnover across numerous sites; this might lead you to thinking they know what they are doing... in our experience at S6, it really seems like they don't! It all works on the basis of economy of scale; they'll have huge centralised kitchens producing the majority of the food sold across their venues. Obviously the offering will vary slightly from place to place but ultimately the principle is to produce as much stuff at the lowest possible price. This also includes the employment of often young, untrained underpaid, demotivated people; it may look like they barely have a brain cell or control of their limbs, when in truth they are just suffering from the lack of investment from their employer (financial or otherwise). Centerplate won't care if the customer experience is poor or even if the profits are low at Hillsborough, if this is supplemented by the success of other sites. If we were to end the contract and put it out to tenure the chances are it would be taken over by a similar company who operate in pretty much the same way, the problems would persist... for me the club have 2 options which would work both for them and the fans 1. Take control of the catering themselves- logistically this would prove extremely challenging in the short term at least. It would require significant financial outlay (obviously nothing in comparison to first team costs but significant nonetheless) and the establishment of a clear system. I don't know how many clubs actually do this but I doubt its very many; the money made from matchday catering is obviously deemed insignificant in comparison to other revenue streams otherwise, so they think why bother? and contract it out to another company. However there is some money to be made otherwise no one would take the contract in the first place; a captive audience of 20k plus even just for a few hours a fortnight is still a really attractive market. Surely that money would be better going to the club than an outside entity that has no interest in the club or the fans? Clubs seem obsessed with the "matchday experience" these days, surely a deep filled pie and a pint served with a smile would add to this massively!? Also while everyone talks about price, I think what we all actually want as consumers is relative value, £4 for said excellent pie, efficiently served by friendly staff wouldn't seem so much and would represent a healthy profit margin for the club 2. Sublet kiosks to individual businesses - this would seem a much more straight forward option; what would be wrong with leasing kiosks to different companies on matchday!? A Beres stand? Owlsman's Noodle Bar? Wetherspoons on the South? This would lead to a healthy competition (to a point after stand restrictions) between vendors which would keep prices realistic, standards relatively high and add massively to choice for the fans. whatever anyone thinks the status quo is a shambles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modboy Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 at Tramlines last night it was 12.20 for three pints. Gave her 20.20 and her brain nearly exploded, bless her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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