The catering thread

[ngood77]

Walked into ESU about 7.15, and there were no queues for beers or food. The 3 mini-bars (2 Harverys, 1 Dark Star) literally had nobody queueing. Left 2 mins before HT and again no queues at mini-bars at all, and small queues at kiosks. These queues did get bigger though, but nothing like NS/WSL proportions. Hope it stays like this.

 

[TheMajor]

No Chicken & Ham pies in South Stand.

 

[middletoenail]

Loving the price increase and no Kronie option, didn't have to queue for longer than about 3 minutes at any point. Used my smart card and it cost me £3.12 for a Harveys before the game and less than £3 after. Happy days!

 

[Blackadder]

How were the pies tonight?

Got up to the WSU at 7. The bar I went to only had veggy pies left.

I thought, "Why not? a lot of people on NSC have said they are really good and it's the only one I haven't tried".

I can tick that box now. Won't be having another.

Agree on earlier comments that the price rises didn't appear to affect demand.

I still think it's a cash cow and the club must be doing well out of it (unless they have a poor contract with the caterers - and I doubt that).

 

[Woodchip]

His business model, you would hope he was a day me his product.

Crikey, BoF's been on the sauce!!!

 

[Box of Frogs]

The service is worse than ever tried to get served at half time and it took them 15 minutes to serve 8 people think I will eat before I go from now on

Out of breath reading that. Try using some punctuation next time!

#grammarpolice

 

[Captain Sensible]

Loads of staff in ESU - no queues.

Mind you took guy 5 mins to serve me with 2 cokes a tea and a pie.
Came to £10.20 - when I gave him a 20 note and a twenty pence his brain nearly imploded.

Good to hear, not the exploding brain but the ESU no ques. Are the kiosks bigger up there?

 

[Frutos]

No Chicken & Ham pies in South Stand.

There were about 45 mins before kickoff if that helps at all.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

7.00pm. Having decided Pies & Pies beyond regular match budget, eventually succumbed to queuing for a coffee in WSL. 5 minutes later, queue hadn't moved, so wandered off without buying anything.

 

[Gazwag]

Chose a free NS W till before the game, started to order and was asked "do you want the meal deal" when I answered yes I was told "sorry you can't use this till"

 

[greyseagull]

Bottle of Pepsi seems to have gone up from £1.60 to £2.20!!!!

£2.50 for me. Bought two bottles for a fiver. Another inconsistency in Azure's pricing noted.

 

[red star portslade]

No complaints from me about the catering as my self imposed ban started last night.

 

[bennibenj]

Loving the price increase and no Kronie option, didn't have to queue for longer than about 3 minutes at any point. Used my smart card and it cost me £3.12 for a Harveys before the game and less than £3 after. Happy days!

Would have to agree with you too

 

[Tory Boy]

No complaints from me about the catering as my self imposed ban started last night.

That makes two of us.

TB

 

[bhawoddy]

WSL Hotdog stall!!! A bun, a frankfurter - no ketchup or onions available. WTF!!!! And a price hike of 40p to £3.90 thrown in. How hard is it to organise some onions and ketchup. Never again!!!!
Are the hotdog sellers part of the Stadium catering or an outsider unit with a years contract?

 

[keaton]

Walked into ESU about 7.15, and there were no queues for beers or food. The 3 mini-bars (2 Harverys, 1 Dark Star) literally had nobody queueing. Left 2 mins before HT and again no queues at mini-bars at all, and small queues at kiosks. These queues did get bigger though, but nothing like NS/WSL proportions. Hope it stays like this.

ESU was excellent last night, no queues, lots of staff, lots of shelving to rest and my pie was bloody lovely.

Only off point was when it started flooding

 

[kingcole]

ESL it was a breeze. In fact I left my seat bang on the half time whistle, direct to a kiosk, one in front. Had beer, inspected the new divide between us and cardiff, had a pee and was back in my seat a good 2 mins before the players came out.

Last year I could do one of 3 but never 2 of, buy beer, drink beer or pee. And drinking was difficult without buying.

In the ESL I think we have been lucky as we have lost 2 blocks to the away fans but the most southerly of the 3 kiosks is just our side of the divide.

 

[Butch Willykins]

WSL Hotdog stall!!! A bun, a frankfurter - no ketchup or onions available. WTF!!!! And a price hike of 40p to £3.90 thrown in. How hard is it to organise some onions and ketchup. Never again!!!!
Are the hotdog sellers part of the Stadium catering or an outsider unit with a years contract?

The Hot Dogs looked terrible last night. Gone is the english sausage in favour of a frankfurter. Ikea knock these out for less than £1. £3.90? No thanks.

 

[fly high]

from the lack of people on the NS concourse eating & drinking I'd say Azure/club have shot themselves in the foot with their price increases & revenue will be seriously down. Last season before the match & at half time you could hardly move on the concourse, last night it was easy moving around, by last seasons standard it could be described as near deserted.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Sounds like from this thread and my experience last night that all stands apart from the West Stand Lower were good.

They ran out of Harveys at the portable beer pump we bought our first pint from, then the kiosk that sells bottled Heineken ran out of change. My cousin was told that his meal deal was £7.80, he reminded the girl it was £7.50 as it said on the sign, she replied: "the Balti pies must be more expensive than the others then". Supervisor came over to sort the problem out. Could see no Dark Star on sale down our end either.

Azure haven't learnt from last season, well in the West Stand Lower they haven't!