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Thread: Food at Easter Road
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07-10-2011 07:51 PM #61
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07-10-2011 10:01 PM #62
TBH - I would rather Hibs did all fans a service and stop the catering. It is a bigger pi55 take than what we have been served up on the pitch since CIS victory in 2007. Absolutely disgusting and so over priced i have refused to purchase for many years. Someone said earlier what do we expect at the football. Well my friend I expect at the football what I expect elsewhere - reasonably good service, reasonable prices and reasonable food. If not then my pennies stay in the pocket and I will take my own food in as usual. I hate to criticise anything to do with the club but if the board think the catering is acceptable then they obviously do not give a 5hit about the fans.
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07-10-2011 11:34 PM #63
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If I take the kids to the football then they get their lunch before the game and their tea afterwards. If I'm out on a bevvy, I get my breakfast before the game and a takeaway when I get home. No need for food at the game.
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07-10-2011 11:40 PM #64
The young untrained staff are another way of them saving money because the minimum wage for U18s and U16s is lower than that for those over 18...
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07-10-2011 11:56 PM #66
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Anyone that is expecting some gourmet effort served up by some kid with marbles in their mouth, either wants to get real, I dont even think you get that at the cricket.
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08-10-2011 07:02 AM #68
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08-10-2011 07:09 AM #69
I think you've all forgotten that the club simply do not give a flying one about the 'matchday experience'.
Pre-match 'entertainment' - players stretching and punting shots high into the stands accompanied by pish music and some babbling on the PA that you can't really make out.
The match - er, mainly pish.
Food - absolute gash, too expensive, supplied by 12 year old jakeys who can forget about a career in hospitality.
Half time - see 'pre-match entertainment' above, plus the occasional rubbish competition, usually trying to boot a ball into an empty net to win 100 quid or something.
Full time - some more gash music to walk out of the ground to.
About 25 quid for all of the above - BARGAIN!
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08-10-2011 07:51 AM #70This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
You may not expect edible food but some of us are a little bit more fussy than you and refuse to shell out £15 so that our kids can eat ***** we wouldn't feed them elsewhere. What does it say about Hibs attempts to attract families along when they can't even give them an adequate snack?
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08-10-2011 08:20 AM #73
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Here is one to chew over for y'all. The caterers will have submitted their bid based on the assumption of X numbers attending the games. With that number decreasing they will have to put their prices up to compensate and make sure the old P&Ls look good.
As an aside, personally I rarely eat anything there, preferring a bit of wholesome food (whatever the heck that is) but I do like my Bovril. An idea I have had for years but never done anything about is to open a stovie shop, selling the various varieties, with maybe a portable stall (like the Yanks hot dog stalls) outside the clubs at night. I love stovies I have to be honest, but one of the biggest arguments we always had at sea was which stovies were the right stovies!!! For me, square sausage are the best, closely followed by corned beef.
As an aside, which company has the stalls? Not Azure is it?
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08-10-2011 09:48 AM #75
If the fans stopped buying the pies burgers etc the club would surely take notice and try to improve the services?? A sort of food boycott at the Motherwell game
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08-10-2011 09:52 AM #76
The Steak Pies are wonderful. They were probably the only entertainment available at ER last season
The beer on the other hand
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08-10-2011 10:44 AM #77
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The food is more than edible, my point is this is another .net thread about wanting hibs to give the fans something for nothing/or in this case vastly improved quality at a reduced price....lets be honest, I wish a lot more things in the world were a lot better for a lot cheaper before I would start thinking about the pies at easter road!
Well feed them elsewhere so you dont need to feed them at the game. It says it is not a restuartant, if you want a snack there is a variety of things you can have. If not have an extra apple before and then get yourself and the kids to Rhubarb on the way back down the road.
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08-10-2011 11:04 AM #78
Don't actually buy the food, not cos of the quality, just because it's so expensive! Will have the occasional Bovril on a cold January Wednesday in a all-or-nothing, do-or-die top of the table clash with St Mirren
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08-10-2011 11:05 AM #79This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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This isn't a forum about 'a lot more things in the world', this is a forum about Hibs. No-one is asking for 'something for nothing'. Folk are, justifiably, saying that the products sold are not value for money and that they should either be cheaper or better quality.
I do feed them elsewhere but thanks for all the handy parenting advice. It's always good to get some pointers from an expert. Although you evidently don't get it, the food on offer is part of the 'matchday experience'. If Hibs really want to tempt families, they need to offer facilities, food and entertainment on a par with competing attractions. The facilities cut the mustard - nothing else does.
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09-10-2011 08:27 AM #81This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
And, can get beer there too...ER can't beat that!
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09-10-2011 09:48 AM #82
TBH on the rare occasions that we buy pies at the match I have never found them to be as bad as described by some on here, maybe that's because they meet my expectations of a pie at a football match! They are expensive in comparison to what you can buy outside but it's always the case with a captive audience just look at motorway service stations. My only real gripe is why they don't sell chips in the West Upper but they do in the lower.
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09-10-2011 10:08 AM #83
A revelation in the food industry would be a ruling enforcing manufacturers or caterers to reveal the cost price of ingredients for producing food stuffs, but that's a different argument for another day. However, we'd truly see how much we're being ripped off in this country.
Don't like the food? Don't buy it. They'll soon sit up and take notice.
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09-10-2011 10:22 AM #84This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Every manufacturing industry is the same!
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09-10-2011 01:19 PM #86
We should have a facility whereby we can phone in our order while watching the first half and be able to collect it during the interval.
Simples.
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09-10-2011 01:28 PM #87
The standard of food on sale at football matches hasn't realy improved in real terms since the 70s. It was crap back then and is still crap, just much more overpriced nowadays. I got food poisoning at the Hibs v Meadowbank cup game that was played at Tynecastle back in the early 80s and am amazed that there is not more stories of food poisoning when you see the standard of caterers at ER.
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The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game
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09-10-2011 02:40 PM #89
There's so many cheap and tasty things they could do that'd be better than the slop they serve.
Stovies is one, scotch broth the other, proper bridies or sausage rolls, decent pies - I'd imagine you'd sell more if they were tasty. I know I get myself two pies if I'm at Killie.
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