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Thread: Catering at Easter Road
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09-10-2018 12:36 PM #61
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09-10-2018 01:42 PM #62This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
It will take a hard parent to say no to their kids at the football.
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09-10-2018 02:02 PM #63This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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09-10-2018 02:31 PM #64This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
We’re playing the best football we’ve seen at ER for years. Winning games, scoring goals. Forget about the catering and enjoy how Stevie Mallan strikes a ball instead.
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09-10-2018 03:00 PM #65
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I completely hear what you are saying, (and it's fantastic that we have nothing else to moan about other than crap pies)
But in an ideal world this would be my match day experience (I know everyone differs, but this is mine)
Arrive nice and early to meet up with friends and enjoy a nice drink in a supporters bar, owned by the club where the profits go to the club. Then take my seat and watch Hibs score a goal or two up to half time. Have a little comfort break and buy a snack and a drink (cold on a hot day, hot drink on a cold day) from in-house caterers run by the club where the profits go to the club, or from a vendor that pays something to the club for the privilege.
Return for the second half to watch Hibs play more classy, silky football and win the match comfortably, keeping a clean sheet, hear the final whistle, give the boys a good ol' cheer, then return to the bar to regale with friends over how superb the game was over a few more drinks, which results in more cash going to the club. Then go home nice and happy.
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09-10-2018 03:07 PM #66
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£2.50 For a Capri Sun is shocking when you can buy a multi pack of the stuff for the same price. The pizzas look shan, hotdogs look anemic and pies are dug ****.
Can't really go wrong with a bovril. Or can they.......
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09-10-2018 03:18 PM #67This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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09-10-2018 03:34 PM #68
Buying bovril cups are quite cheap.They certainly do not cost £2-50 each as charged
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09-10-2018 03:49 PM #69
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My main gripe on Saturday though was not the pies but the sauce - ie ALL the sauce in the East Stand had run out long before the end of half time with no-one bothering their erse to replenish them.
I went over to the counter and complained about this as it happens EVERY week without fail and gets right on my thrupennies as it's purely down to lack of foresight and/or care or just plain laziness and is entirely preventable.
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09-10-2018 04:00 PM #71
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There's no excuse for the crap football fans are offered as "catering". Most of the stuff is a health hazard that would be classed as abuse if offered to those in 3rd world countries.
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09-10-2018 04:03 PM #72
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BAD IDEA - it was absolutely bowfin! The horrible dried milk in it tasted like it had been lying about too long and each taste of this so called tea made me feel just a little bit more ill. So I ended up ditching it - not much cope considering the extortionate prices charged for such utter crap.
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09-10-2018 04:18 PM #73This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
PS The pies in the West Upper are tremendous. Piping hot and decent quality. I always get one before the game starts.
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09-10-2018 06:06 PM #74
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09-10-2018 09:53 PM #75
Given how often we are reminded about the importance of income generation to the club, you’d think improving the catering would be a fairly easy win.
Better offer = higher earnings.
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09-10-2018 09:57 PM #76This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
As it stands, it makes no financial difference to the club how much the food is, or how crap it is.
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09-10-2018 10:40 PM #77This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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09-10-2018 11:01 PM #78This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Well there’s your problem then.
If I were running the club I’d be wanting out of that contract pronto.
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10-10-2018 12:00 AM #79
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Obviously it’s not the highest of priorities in regard to running a football club, but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t discussed at boardroom meetings.
Even a topic that could be raised at the AGM........it’s about providing a quality match day experience...obviously results are the most important by far, but incidentals like catering, seating, ticketing etc, etc are all part of the tapestry of a football club
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10-10-2018 02:06 AM #80This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Regardless of whether it's a contract with outside catering and Hibs make no money etc, it's about perception really - i.e. the perception currently being that the food 'Hibs' serve up is rubbish. Nobody really cares that it's some contractor or any such details - it's served up at Hibs games inside Hibs' stadium, and the buck does stop with the club.
In Wellington it's a slightly different scenario where various sports/clubs play at the stadium, but there were similar complaints about the quality of food / beverages on offer for a long time. They then changed tack from the standard catering / rubbish beer (yes, beer at the football!) and got local independent caterers on board. You can still get the same old rubbish you always could, but there are loads of different choices from a variety of stalls throughout the concourse - i.e. gourmet pizza, gourmet hot dogs, gourmet anything(!) as well as local craft beer, proper barista coffee etc etc. The complaints have stopped and everyone has a choice - also good marketing and exposure for the local companies involved, so win-win.
Hard to see why similar arrangements couldn't be made at Easter Road really?
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10-10-2018 05:30 AM #81
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I very much doubt whether it's discussed at Board Meetings. They've given a contract to whoever offered the most cash, and they won't bother thinking about it again until the contract is up for renewal.
Fans are taken for granted and in all my time watching football, I've never seen many instances where the owners bother about us.
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10-10-2018 05:33 AM #82This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
If I remember correctly the catering was supposed to be brought in house 2 seasons ago. That was LD that said that unless I’m mistaken.
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10-10-2018 05:45 AM #83
I love these threads. They always bring out at least one poster who gets uppity because some have the temerity to eat outside ‘proper’ meal times.
‘Sad!’ as one cretinous leader of the Free World may tweet.
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10-10-2018 05:52 AM #84This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I work permanent night shift. My meal times are different to most people’s.
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10-10-2018 06:14 AM #85This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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10-10-2018 07:15 AM #87
That some folk on here spend over 5 quid for a bad pie and bovril is amazing,really, 5 quid, when yi kin buy it 200 metres fae the stadium before the game for a couple of quid, mair money than sense. How many great smelling, small queued local bakeries or chippies do you pass on the way. Each tae thur ain ah suppose.
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