re: Concerning Concessions TAKE ACTION (updated with twitter info)

Aramark controls the concessions, but most are ran by travel ball teams, churches, and other non profit organizations. They receive a percentage of sales for their organization. They are trained before they can run them , but not nearly enough training!

Boycott is a good idea. Unfortunately, my wife and I must buy water at fball, MBB, and baseball, but we refuse to buy anything else. Its the best we can do.

We use to have awesome cheese for the nachos....the chit they are trying to pass off as cheese now is flat out disgusting.

Have people been blowing up Dave Wallace's phone line?

I fricking love tiger dogs


So no, enjoy your attempt at getting an entire stadium to boycott concessions though. Let me know how that works for you

The hot dog I got last week was colder than the flat soft drink they served me. You can have those nasty tiger dogs.

You triggered baw? Where in the frick did I take the stance that the concessions were adequate? You're the type of schmuck that sits behind his keyboard and pounds his little fingers away, whining like a mfer about the injustices.

You REALLY wanna make a difference? Carry your arse to the games with pickets signs and march out front if you want change. And make sure you're not alone...gather the troops with you! If you think 15 emails from tRant will effect change then you're even dumber than I thought. Otherwise, drop the self-ritcheous indignation Mr. Man of the People!

No offense, but do you go to the game to eat well? For instance, if LSU had ZERO concessions would it impact your decision to go to the ball game?

I've never gone to a ballgame with dinner/lunch being my primary concern. I know WELL ahead of time that if I plan on eating at the game, then I plan on eating overpriced stadium food. Maybe it's just the adult in me, but I tend to plan ahead and eat BEFORE I go to the game. I have to say, it's worked out pretty well thus far. Sometimes, and this is only when LSU has a 6:00 basketball game AND I get a wild hair, I live dangerously and choose to eat AFTER the game.

This whole topic makes me think of my Dad, who bitches every home game about the concessions. When I suggest "alternative solutions" such as eating before the game and/or just not buying anything, it's as if I have just asked him to explain the theory of relativity. Almost, as if he hadn't considered such options might be available.

I am in

The only easy day was. Yesterday

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What is your beef with Aramark exactly? Quality of food/price or what?

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All of the above. And more.

1. Quality is way down. Even the hot dogs are bad.

2. Service is atrocious. The employees are clueless and rude. They can't count change, they ignore you, they look disinterested. Its unbelievable how much worse it is.

3. Planning is even worse. They run out of concession staples before games begin. Auburn/LSU game they ran out of hot dogs and soft drinks in the 2nd quarter on the lower West side.

4. Prices are 25-50% higher on a lot of items...which would be ok if they were way better, but they're actually way worse.

5. They have no strategy regarding where they sell everything. Or at least its a bad one. They sell completely different items at every concession stand in the football stadium. You sometimes have to go to 3 different places for 3 different items that all used to be at every stand.