Do they donate any of the excess food? There’s visibly a ton sitting there completely prepared at the end of games. I’d really like to think it’s not being thrown in the trash.
2019 Season Ticket Thread
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You'd be surprised how many placed don't donate excess food. My company's reason is "if someone gets sick, we don't want to be the blame" which is one of the dumbest things you can say, because 1) it's donated food and 2) why would you be so afraid your food is undercooked or badly prepared?
Nope. I worked at the stadium for about 4 years and all of that food gets thrown out.
I worked at a restaurant in MA during college, and food was generally thrown out. Some reasons for this
1. Liability risks for food served, and more importantly handled, off premises.
2. No shelters or food banks accepted pre-cooked foods for multiple reasons. Either for their own liability issues or the lack of resources for storing and reheating the food.
I'm not sure if any organization would come and collect and serve all the unhealthy stadium food after a game, but if it could work anywhere, I guess it would be NYC.
1. Liability risks for food served, and more importantly handled, off premises.
2. No shelters or food banks accepted pre-cooked foods for multiple reasons. Either for their own liability issues or the lack of resources for storing and reheating the food.
I'm not sure if any organization would come and collect and serve all the unhealthy stadium food after a game, but if it could work anywhere, I guess it would be NYC.
To piggyback on what 413Blue said there’s a lot of risks involved with precooked foods. We donate a lot of food including expired products (nothing wrong with it if it’s raw product such as salad that the food bank can visibly inspect, but we can’t donate expired processed products such as dressings).
Prepared food such as at a hot bar has to meet food safety requirements established by the CDC. You have a maximum of 4 hours that a food can be out of temperature before it must be spoiled. The second it’s out of it’s hot holding temperature zone of 135 or above its in an environment conducive for bacterial growth.
Even for cold items we required our food banks to have refrigerated trucks to accept the donation as they usually spend hours driving around collecting from different places.
Technically the cold products (milk/salad/yogurt) you buy at a supermarket must uphold the same standard. From the moment it’s produced it’s granted only 4 hours of time in the ‘temperature danger zone’ which if it exceeds is then labeled as potentially hazardous.
There’s a lot of windows the food isn’t in refrigeration. When it’s received, going from truck to cooler, being stocked, in your cart, in your car and finally on your counter before it’s put away.
I guess that's true, yes, but it just feels like too much of a waste... :c
Definitely agree. That’s up to the venue to control cost. It doesn’t make sense to produce 20lb’s of something if only 10lb’s is eaten on average.
Not sure if they have a system for monitoring production vs consumption. If they do and they still continue to produce and waste the same exact product week after week then that’s just poor management.
Guessing my three tickets don’t hit the minimum price point they set to earn the wine opener. With an alcohol theme, they should have sent me a beer bottle cap remover.
I'm no longer a premium STH and still got it today, so not sure who got it for what reasons.
It’s the typical corporate sales MO. They want you back. They crap on current suckers. Just like cable companies - they’ll give you massive discounts to hook you, but if you’ve been loyal for years, they still charge you 5x more.
Maybe this is why the pitchside STH packages were late?
It's not. This was in a separate package.
You got this but still waiting for STH package?
The process has been atrocious and still ongoing. I'll leave it at that for now.
Anyone sell any ticket on Stubhub yet? Are they charging 15% fee this year? FFS, I think im done buying tickets after this year. I can't hold on for stadium news while they progressively make it harder each year. I just want a SSS in NYC proper. That's all I've ever wanted from this club.... way before city ever got involved. I'm tired of yankee stadium. I'm holding on to my founding member status for the lifetime of savings, cause i hope to be a STH for life, but the way its going I don't know if they'd even honor that. I feel like I am going to get a bait and switch in the end and all i'll have is a place in line for my choice of seating at the new stadium if that day ever comes. But after they alienate everyone what line would even be in front of me if i walked away now. So what am I holding on for?!
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Just got this wine thing. Season ticket box delivery apparently pushed to tomorrow.
Mine were 13%.
Let's just say I have my SS tickets listed for $25 and SH telling me they are overpriced. Definitely going to trade-in all my higher-tier tickets.
I'm working under the assumption that I will not get the variable pricing price for ANY tickets this year. Not even RBNJ.
As I said before, I think they boxed themselves in with the variable pricing trying to get everything to add up to the prices we paid. It doesn't reflect the stinker of a season we were handed with all these midweek games and honestly only like 3 very interesting matches (one being RB on a sat, the other being LAFC on a sat but its too early/cold, and the third atlanta season closer but on a wed and we or they could be uninteresting at that point). I downgraded to nosebleeds, my package costs $408. If you let me make the schedule I could make a lineup of games worth $600. I could also make a lineup worth $200. Unfortunately, they were priced $408 per-schedule and then the league handed us a lineup closer to the lower end.
So, they know off the bat that the packages is probably already worth 90% of what we paid, and they have to put that 10% somewhere or it looks bad admitting the ST are overpriced. They also know the RB game on Saturday is the gem of the season tickets (with current knowledge, obviously could change if like somehow HOU get Neymar, but i think we know how likely that is) and how bad the mid week draws are. They couldn't just make the RB's game 20% of the total price and midweek games 2%. It would be too lopsided and an admission that STH are getting the shaft vs these à la carte 3-6 match packages they sell. So they ended up trying to make a flatter price structure, thus overvaluing the midweek games and undervaluing the RB match. For me the best deal is turning 8 bad overpriced "bronze" games in 1 underpriced 'platinum" match and upgrading my section to legends seats, for net zero cost. Effectively making the STH a large à la carte package but allowing you to retain Founding member status.
