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Aug 30, 2024 12:14:39 GMT
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Post by blue4life on Aug 30, 2024 12:14:39 GMT
The kiosks are an absolute embarrassment. Not helping the matchday experience at all It's no better if not worse than last season, why won't anyone from the club respond? They have the legends lounge, they won't be arsed about the kiosks. |
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Aug 30, 2024 12:50:47 GMT
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Post by Frank Owen’s Paintbrush on Aug 30, 2024 12:50:47 GMT
It's no better if not worse than last season, why won't anyone from the club respond? They have the legends lounge, they won't be arsed about the kiosks. Has felt that way for years regardless of the supplier, tbh. The riff raff don’t bring the big cash in do they. |
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Aug 30, 2024 12:58:32 GMT
Post by Harry Lime on Aug 30, 2024 12:58:32 GMT
Have people considered that maybe no-one else has tendered to run the kiosks? Unless there's a choice of providers, the club is limited on what they can do.
It keeps being mentioned at cfu meetings, but as you say, nothing seems to change. If we had a decent offering I'd use them. Don't bother at the moment due to all the criticism. Not going to turn up then find I can't get anything to eat as they've run out
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Post by Imperial on Aug 30, 2024 15:23:49 GMT
They’re really not that bad. I’m not sure what people are expecting from a football club snack kiosk.
As far as the club is concerned they just want someone to deal with it so they don’t have to, which is completely understandable.
It’s there as an option if you want something hot to eat, if not bring your own.
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Aug 30, 2024 15:44:54 GMT
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Post by yoshimitsu on Aug 30, 2024 15:44:54 GMT
They’re really not that bad. I’m not sure what people are expecting from a football club snack kiosk. As far as the club is concerned they just want someone to deal with it so they don’t have to, which is completely understandable. It’s there as an option if you want something hot to eat, if not bring your own. Agree with this (although I have to admit to not being at the ground all that often). The price is OK for a footy ground. I’ve generally been able to get stuff and it’s been good quality I think for the last few years. The queues haven’t been too bad and are comparable to other footy grounds. Having said all that if there’s only one kiosk open for an entire stand that’s proper poor. |
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Post by milnerisgod on Aug 30, 2024 16:56:50 GMT
They’re really not that bad. I’m not sure what people are expecting from a football club snack kiosk. As far as the club is concerned they just want someone to deal with it so they don’t have to, which is completely understandable. It’s there as an option if you want something hot to eat, if not bring your own. They really are that bad. People don't expect much from a football club snack kiosk. Just pies, perhaps a burger, or a hotdog at half time. Even that seems beyond the talents of the current incumbents, who are often out of hot food 15 minutes into the game. It's increasingly not 'there as an option if you want something hot to eat', which is surely the bare minimum we should be expecting? |
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Post by borussiachester on Aug 30, 2024 17:19:35 GMT
I used to use the kiosks pretty religiously, but haven’t bothered in the last couple of years, and now just bring stuff from home every game. Never really had an issue with the quality of the food, but the two major gripes for me were (and, judging by everyone’s comments, probably still would be if I were to use the kiosks again) the price and the service.
The price might not be out of the ordinary for the standards of football grounds in general, but I think it is for non-league standards - most away grounds I’ve visited have offered better value, and often more varied, food and drink options. By all means, the Coward’s pies are nice, if we still do them, but I also liked the Hollands fayre we used to sell, and wouldn’t object to those returning if it would slash the prices by a couple of quid.
The service is/was an even greater issue - I’d inevitably be queuing for 20-25 minutes, meaning I’d miss part of the second half even if I immediately made a beeline for the kiosk at the start of half-time, only to be greeted by a an announcement that there was no hot food left. Staffing issues also seemed to be becoming increasingly common, as there’d often only be two people on duty - one taking orders and the other preparing. This is mostly based on my experiences in the northern half of the main stand, but when I’ve been on the Harry Mac, it’s been even worse.
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Aug 30, 2024 17:28:59 GMT
Post by Curva Nord on Aug 30, 2024 17:28:59 GMT
They’re really not that bad. I’m not sure what people are expecting from a football club snack kiosk. As far as the club is concerned they just want someone to deal with it so they don’t have to, which is completely understandable. It’s there as an option if you want something hot to eat, if not bring your own. They really are that bad. People don't expect much from a football club snack kiosk. Just pies, perhaps a burger, or a hotdog at half time. Even that seems beyond the talents of the current incumbents, who are often out of hot food 15 minutes into the game. It's increasingly not 'there as an option if you want something hot to eat', which is surely the bare minimum we should be expecting? Always manage to get one at half time, and tbf, if I were them, I'd rather run out of stock, than have to much gone to waste. |
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Aug 30, 2024 20:28:13 GMT
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Post by Imperial on Aug 30, 2024 20:28:13 GMT
Fair enough, I sit in the East Stand & rarely if ever have to queue at all & only once or twice have they run out of steak pies which is what I usually have.
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Aug 30, 2024 21:18:51 GMT
Post by oldsealandroadender on Aug 30, 2024 21:18:51 GMT
Fair enough, I sit in the East Stand & rarely if ever have to queue at all & only once or twice have they run out of steak pies which is what I usually have. Different East Stand to me then! |
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Aug 30, 2024 21:20:43 GMT
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Post by Frank Owen’s Paintbrush on Aug 30, 2024 21:20:43 GMT
The other thing that hasn’t been discussed in this thread - can people genuinely not go a couple of hours without hot food? You have dinner at 12/1pm and tea at 5.30/6pm. Do you need to also have a hot dog and a pie in-between? Fat bastards the lot of you!
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Aug 30, 2024 21:29:38 GMT
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Post by lincolnexile on Aug 30, 2024 21:29:38 GMT
The other thing that hasn’t been discussed in this thread - can people genuinely not go a couple of hours without hot food? You have dinner at 12/1pm and tea at 5.30/6pm. Do you need to also have a hot dog and a pie in-between? Fat bastards the lot of you! So says the bloke who turns up at the game with a bag of snacks 🤣🤣🤣 |
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Aug 30, 2024 21:30:50 GMT
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Post by Frank Owen’s Paintbrush on Aug 30, 2024 21:30:50 GMT
The other thing that hasn’t been discussed in this thread - can people genuinely not go a couple of hours without hot food? You have dinner at 12/1pm and tea at 5.30/6pm. Do you need to also have a hot dog and a pie in-between? Fat bastards the lot of you! So says the bloke who turns up at the game with a bag of snacks 🤣🤣🤣 If you could read posts properly you would’ve seen the snacks are for my primary school age children 👍🏻 I’d expect fully grown adults to be able to go two hours without needing a hot dog or a meat and potato pie. Then again, only takes a quick glance around the ground and maybe I need to lower those expectations… |
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Post by oldsealandroadender on Aug 30, 2024 21:35:42 GMT
The other thing that hasn’t been discussed in this thread - can people genuinely not go a couple of hours without hot food? You have dinner at 12/1pm and tea at 5.30/6pm. Do you need to also have a hot dog and a pie in-between? Fat bastards the lot of you! Less of the fat please! |
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Aug 30, 2024 22:53:36 GMT
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Post by Imperial on Aug 30, 2024 22:53:36 GMT
Fair enough, I sit in the East Stand & rarely if ever have to queue at all & only once or twice have they run out of steak pies which is what I usually have. Different East Stand to me then! I sit in the end closest to the South Stand but I suppose it depends when you go. There’s always a queue at half time of course. |
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Aug 30, 2024 23:19:49 GMT
Post by whitey on Aug 30, 2024 23:19:49 GMT
So says the bloke who turns up at the game with a bag of snacks 🤣🤣🤣 If you could read posts properly you would’ve seen the snacks are for my primary school age children 👍🏻 I’d expect fully grown adults to be able to go two hours without needing a hot dog or a meat and potato pie. Then again, only takes a quick glance around the ground and maybe I need to lower those expectations… Part of football for us oldies was a pie and a beer or two, keep eating your salad but f**k off insulting other people. Very tired of you again |
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Sept 2, 2024 5:25:38 GMT
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Post by jamieablock on Sept 2, 2024 5:25:38 GMT
No problem. As Si says above, these rules clearly don't apply to bringing your own bottles in. Everyone should take their own food and drink in That would solve the problem of the kiosks Would take money out the club. |
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Sept 2, 2024 9:33:29 GMT
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Post by Frank Owen’s Paintbrush on Sept 2, 2024 9:33:29 GMT
Everyone should take their own food and drink in That would solve the problem of the kiosks Would take money out the club. Which would then prompt the club to source a better supplier. |
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Sept 2, 2024 9:47:37 GMT
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Post by southernseal on Sept 2, 2024 9:47:37 GMT
It's ridiculous. I bought a Fanta at the Brackley game and just before I'd got to the kiosk one of the stewards had come in to make sure the staff were taking the lids off. It's not easy to take them off as they have been designed to stay on, so clearly the H&S guidelines are now outdated. I felt sorry for them having to constantly wrestle with plastic lids, and there's no doubt it had a knock on effect with the queue. Last 2 games I've taken my own bottle in and put it in my pocket walking in, problem solved but the kiosks lose out on a few quid off me, and I can still nip to the toilets and fill my Pepsi with the lid on and launch it at the ref if I like. I don't get this whole joined plastic bottle top thing. It just seems like Coca-Cola and other companies giving themselves a pat on the back for their environmental efforts when actually they're doing nothing. Wouldn't most people recycle the lid and bottle together anyway? Seems odd that you would put one in the recycling and not the other. And doesn't it use even more plastic to create the bit that keeps the top attached to the bottle. If they're really bothered about the planet, maybe they should stop using so much plastic? Recycling plastic is inefficient, with some studies saying as little as 5% of it actually gets reused. Plus we're all ingesting too much plastic in the food and drink we consume. It’s an EU directive that makes it mandatory. A lot of drinks companies are multinational and there would be added costs to make detachable caps for the UK market only so we get the crap caps as well It’s for recycling reasons but a lot of drinks companies use black plastic caps and black plastic is non-recyclable 🤷🏻♂️ |
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Sept 2, 2024 10:32:09 GMT
Post by Si on Sept 2, 2024 10:32:09 GMT
The other thing that hasn’t been discussed in this thread - can people genuinely not go a couple of hours without hot food? You have dinner at 12/1pm and tea at 5.30/6pm. Do you need to also have a hot dog and a pie in-between? Fat bastards the lot of you! We're in the entertainment industry, and providing hot and cold snacks are the norm. Same as if you went to the cinema or Blue Planet aquarium etc. I'm more than happy to go for a couple of hours without a pie, but the option should at least be there, and if we are doing hot food then we should be doing it better. I haven't even got much gripes about the quality of the food to be honest, I think the pies and hot dogs are fine but it's the fact that they run out before half time or there's massive queues so you miss chunks of the game. Lets face it, we've never managed to do it well at the Deva, it just isn't set up right for it - we badly needed concourses like Telford to give us the room to do it properly rather than shitty little areas in the corner of the ground. |
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Sept 2, 2024 14:01:01 GMT
Post by Lobster on Sept 2, 2024 14:01:01 GMT
I don't get this whole joined plastic bottle top thing. It just seems like Coca-Cola and other companies giving themselves a pat on the back for their environmental efforts when actually they're doing nothing. Wouldn't most people recycle the lid and bottle together anyway? Seems odd that you would put one in the recycling and not the other. And doesn't it use even more plastic to create the bit that keeps the top attached to the bottle. If they're really bothered about the planet, maybe they should stop using so much plastic? Recycling plastic is inefficient, with some studies saying as little as 5% of it actually gets reused. Plus we're all ingesting too much plastic in the food and drink we consume. It’s an EU directive that makes it mandatory. A lot of drinks companies are multinational and there would be added costs to make detachable caps for the UK market only so we get the crap caps as well It’s for recycling reasons but a lot of drinks companies use black plastic caps and black plastic is non-recyclable 🤷🏻♂️ If Brexit is actually about having a higher standard of living than the EU, why don't we get the drinks made and bottled here, use green materials, standardise recycling throughout the country and actually be a leader in something?
I've always been open minded to the idea that there might be benefits of being outside the EU, but all it actually seems to be about is gloating at foreigners and continuing to moan about EU directives, even though we don't have to follow them anymore.
Sorry, politics again, I know.
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Sept 2, 2024 16:08:35 GMT
Post by oldsealandroadender on Sept 2, 2024 16:08:35 GMT
We've got a leader now who's doing his best for non British and trying to take us back into the EU by the back door, sneaking us back in and hoping no one will notice.
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Sept 2, 2024 16:53:42 GMT
Post by TheatreOfHate on Sept 2, 2024 16:53:42 GMT
Overpriced, refuse to buy off them.
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Sept 2, 2024 16:56:06 GMT
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Post by boughtonbliue on Sept 2, 2024 16:56:06 GMT
We've got a leader now who's doing his best for non British and trying to take us back into the EU by the back door, sneaking us back in and hoping no one will notice. I bloody hope so 🤣 |
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Sept 2, 2024 18:19:43 GMT
Post by PhillippeDuLait on Sept 2, 2024 18:19:43 GMT
We've got a leader now who's doing his best for non British and trying to take us back into the EU by the back door, sneaking us back in and hoping no one will notice. Oh no. What's he done? |
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Sept 2, 2024 19:24:24 GMT
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Post by RonD on Sept 2, 2024 19:24:24 GMT
Getting the thread back on track, how on earth do they justify £4.75 for a pie. Must be some mark up there!
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Sept 2, 2024 20:41:26 GMT
Post by PhillippeDuLait on Sept 2, 2024 20:41:26 GMT
Getting the thread back on track, how on earth do they justify £4.75 for a pie. Must be some mark up there! We did insist on pies with sides. This is the cost of that extra pastry. |
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Sept 2, 2024 20:51:05 GMT
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Post by Frank Owen’s Paintbrush on Sept 2, 2024 20:51:05 GMT
We've got a leader now who's doing his best for non British and trying to take us back into the EU by the back door, sneaking us back in and hoping no one will notice. And I’m not allowed to call an Irish team Irish? Selective moderation and proves that when people moan about seeing politics on the football chat they’re actually only really moaning about seeing political views they specifically disagree with. |
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Sept 2, 2024 21:51:37 GMT
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Post by hackett on Sept 2, 2024 21:51:37 GMT
We've got a leader now who's doing his best for non British and trying to take us back into the EU by the back door, sneaking us back in and hoping no one will notice. And I’m not allowed to call an Irish team Irish? Selective moderation and proves that when people moan about seeing politics on the football chat they’re actually only really moaning about seeing political views they specifically disagree with. Don't think it's necessarily the politics they disagree with Nathan, just you. Even in this thread you've gone off topic to be insulting. Words don't bother me by the way, you just come across as a cunt. |
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Post by Deva Chanter on Sept 2, 2024 22:10:09 GMT
Not been back since the grifters tried to charge me 10p for a sachet of shite ketchup to go with an overpriced Rollover hot dog.
For me, one of the benefits of this level when travelling away is experiencing the surprisingly good catering at some grounds.
I do think the club falls down quite badly on this - hardly screams community football club to have such a generic, overpriced offering with pretty poor service to go with it.
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