re: Tiger Stadium concessions

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First of all, I love Tiger Stadium. Have been going with my family for as long as I can remember. Some of my fondest memories occurred in TS from as far back at Auburn ‘88 to Florida in ‘97, to as recent at beating Bama in OT this year.

However, last night with multiple vendors running out of cups for hot chocolate made me think about my experiences from high school to professional, specific to concessions.

If we want to continue claiming TS is one of the best stadiums in all of CFB, we’ve got to step it up in this area. Concessions play a large part in people’s experience. Granted, some of the lines seem to move faster this year when they let you put the beer on the auto check out machine or when 2 or 3 employees are assigned to scanning your items and taking your credit card for payment.

I realize this isn’t a new gripe from the fan base or TD boards. And I remember Woodward pounding his chest that he revamped concessions with Aramark shortly after he arrived. Unfortunately, it fell short. Way short.

This off season would be a great time for some short to long range planning specific to concessions / stadium experience.

Allow more restaurants to sell their food? Cane’s , Rotolo’s, or Couyon’s just to name a few.

And what about finding a way to enhance the beer garden experience and get it closer to the action in the stadium near the south end zone? Offer more seating with stand up tables in the end zones?

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