Pizza at Aberdeen game

[Scouse Hibee]

The La Favorita pizza trailer will be located in the West Stand car park on Saturday serving before and after the game.

[Dashing Bob S]

If this is even partly edible they will deservedly clean up.

[SirDavidsNapper]

Pizza or Piazza? Ive heard of this Hearts invention. It's very similar to Hibs traditional queue area.

[Hibernia&Alba]

So I'll have to walk all the way around to the West Stand? Do they dae delivery?

[Jamesie]

Will be interesting to see how it compares to the pizza slices :greengrin

[Juice-Terry]

La Favorita make EXCELLENT pizza. Great idea.

[eastcoasthibby]

På Favorita make EXCELLENT pizza. Great idea.

Depends if they put the same football match inflated prices ...then it will be £4 a slice ...I totally welcome the competition but its the prices charged by current outlets not just the quality ...

[Hibbyradge]

Nae chips?

[Salt N Sauzee]

Does this spell the end of the Prawn Sandwiches in The West?

[Hibee87]

Does this spell the end of the Prawn Sandwiches in The West?Yes, upgraded to a prawn and mussle pizza

[Billy Whizz]

Do you get discount if you show your season ticket card?

[Scouse Hibee]

Do you get discount if you show your season ticket card?

No mate.

[LaMotta]

The La Favorita pizza trailer will be located in the West Stand car park on Saturday serving before and after the game.

Excellent news!

[hughio]

Excellent news!

ANYTHING edible would be a huge improvement.
The club have an utterly rank rotten approach to serving fans reasonable food at reasonable prices.

[LaMotta]

ANYTHING edible would be a huge improvement.
The club have an utterly rank rotten approach to serving fans reasonable food at reasonable prices.

I sometimes enjoy a wee pre match trip to the burger van on Hawkhill avenue for a 15% meat content burger ( from which animal I'm not quite sure), but more enjoyable than the fare inside ER nonetheless.

[Albanian Hibs]

I sometimes enjoy a wee pre match trip to the burger van on Hawkhill avenue for a 15% meat content burger ( from which animal I'm not quite sure), but more enjoyable than the fare inside ER nonetheless.

The burgers there are fab. Much better value and taste than the crap pies at the game.

[macca70]

Depends if they put the same football match inflated prices ...then it will be £4 a slice ...I totally welcome the competition but its the prices charged by current outlets not just the quality ...

It will be £4+ a slice from the La Favorita Van!!

[Scouse Hibee]

It will be £4+ a slice from the La Favorita Van!!

Wanna bet ;-)

[macca70]

Wanna bet ;-)

£3 for margarita slice and £3.50 others

[Sammy7nil]

The La Favorita pizza trailer will be located in the West Stand car park on Saturday serving before and after the game.

Do they sell chips :wink:

[Scouse Hibee]

£3 for margarita slice and £3.50 others

Spot on.

[Billy Whizz]

Spot on.

Are you on commission SH😎

[Scouse Hibee]

Do they sell chips :wink:

You could maybe get wood chips from the fire :-)

[Scouse Hibee]

Are you on commission SH😎

No a salary!

[staunchhibby]

Get my pies from Boghall butchers they are ace.

[Scouse Hibee]

A steady start, was reasonably busy when I passed. I think folk appreciated the option.

[Pretty Boy]

Good to see a bit of choice on offer even if it is outside the ground.

I know we have all had a laugh about Hearts and their 'chips will be served' but since they have brought their catering in house the range on offer has improved. They still do the usual pies etc but also have a curry stall and will be introducing noodle boxes as well. I believe they have also taken on a couple of other catering contracts (a rugby club and a golf club).

I suppose it all comes down to whether there is a business case for it but the catering options at Hibs are garbage. I went straight to the recent Livingston game straight from work so grabbed a steak pie from the kiosks and it was absolutely rank. I threw half of it in the bin.

[staunchhibby]

The choice on offer is abysmal and i believe they ran out out of steak pies in ffs.Time that mob were emptied.Get some decent caterers in and charge reasonable prices.

[Lancs Harp]

it is an area the Club could improve massively on (and make some revenue out of it at the same time), the standard offered at the moment, inline with most other football clubs incidentally, is pretty poor both in terms of choice and quality. I think the club recognise this hence the trail last season with a local pie supplier (sorry forgot the name) and now this pizza trail. You have a huge amount of people looking for food and drink before the game, you only have to look at how US sports clubs have recognised this and catered for it and then look what is on offer at British sports clubs, there is just no comparison. A club in the UK will wake up to this one day.

[Mibbes Aye]

it is an area the Club could improve massively on (and make some revenue out of it at the same time), the standard offered at the moment, inline with most other football clubs incidentally, is pretty poor both in terms of choice and quality. I think the club recognise this hence the trail last season with a local pie supplier (sorry forgot the name) and now this pizza trail. You have a huge amount of people looking for food and drink before the game, you only have to look at how US sports clubs have recognised this and catered for it and then look what is on offer at British sports clubs, there is just no comparison. A club in the UK will wake up to this one day.

I agree with this but I think it's tougher at football grounds. Most US sports and cricket matches over here last for much longer periods - at the Test grounds you have various stalls doing fish or scampi and chips, Indian food, Chinese food, burgers and hotdogs, bratwurst and pizza etc etc as well as places doing doughnuts and other sweets. The market is there because you have people in relative captivity for several hours.

With football here you have two real pressure points - just before kick-off and half-time, with some sales during the first half. It's also much smaller numbers generally. The other factor is that at the cricket, the concourses usually allow you to walk right round, so they don't face the issue at Hibs of having to provide numerous sets of catering facilities for each stand/tier, doing relatively small business.

[Lancs Harp]

I agree with this but I think it's tougher at football grounds. Most US sports and cricket matches over here last for much longer periods - at the Test grounds you have various stalls doing fish or scampi and chips, Indian food, Chinese food, burgers and hotdogs, bratwurst and pizza etc etc as well as places doing doughnuts and other sweets. The market is there because you have people in relative captivity for several hours.

With football here you have two real pressure points - just before kick-off and half-time, with some sales during the first half. It's also much smaller numbers generally. The other factor is that at the cricket, the concourses usually allow you to walk right round, so they don't face the issue at Hibs of having to provide numerous sets of catering facilities for each stand/tier, doing relatively small business.


Good point mate but going forward its part of improving the match day experience. You mention the two real pressure points, well the first pressure point before kick off, why not make this part of the match day experience, get people in far earlier, entertain them, feed them water them, especially families that may not want to attend the various local breweries pre match, or even offer something to entice those that do want to attend local local alehouses pre match. Go to match in Germany for instance to see how tis can work. Its win win. The fan gets better service and a better Hibs experience and club makes more money. The game in the UK is really backward at this. Decent at catering for corporate but what about the rest of us?

[Mibbes Aye]

Good point mate but going forward its part of improving the match day experience. You mention the two real pressure points, well the first pressure point before kick off, why not make this part of the match day experience, get people in far earlier, entertain them, feed them water them, especially families that may not want to attend the various local breweries pre match, or even offer something to entice those that do want to attend local local alehouses pre match. Go to match in Germany for instance to see how tis can work. Its win win. The fan gets better service and a better Hibs experience and club makes more money. The game in the UK is really backward at this. Decent at catering for corporate but what about the rest of us?

Would agree with that. Been to see Bohemians in Prague a couple of times, they have a small stadium, maybe 4-5,000 but have a couple of beer stalls and klabasa vendors in the space outside the stand. It’s always stowed out with all age groups in the run-up to kick-off. You've scanned your ticket before you get there though so I’m not sure how practical it would be here?