Catering outside Stadium

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Re: Catering outside Stadium

by Dirk Gently » 19 Oct 2022 17:50

Forbury Lion I have a business plan.

Buy a load of Costco/Tesco oven pizzas for £2 each
Take orders and cash before the game at £8 a pizza
Cook them during the first half
Customers queue up to collect them at half time
Sell spare ones to walk up customers.

It's not difficult to heat a frozen pizza.


Don't forget your registrations for running a food business, your hygiene inspections, your liability insurances etc etc etc

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Re: Catering outside Stadium

by Forbury Lion » 21 Oct 2022 12:59

Dirk Gently
Forbury Lion I have a business plan.

Buy a load of Costco/Tesco oven pizzas for £2 each
Take orders and cash before the game at £8 a pizza
Cook them during the first half
Customers queue up to collect them at half time
Sell spare ones to walk up customers.

It's not difficult to heat a frozen pizza.


Don't forget your registrations for running a food business, your hygiene inspections, your liability insurances etc etc etc

Good point, I might just turn it into a food delivery service instead.

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Re: Catering outside Stadium

by RoyalBlue » 21 Oct 2022 14:10

Forbury Lion
Dirk Gently
Forbury Lion I have a business plan.

Buy a load of Costco/Tesco oven pizzas for £2 each
Take orders and cash before the game at £8 a pizza
Cook them during the first half
Customers queue up to collect them at half time
Sell spare ones to walk up customers.

It's not difficult to heat a frozen pizza.


Don't forget your registrations for running a food business, your hygiene inspections, your liability insurances etc etc etc

Good point, I might just turn it into a food delivery service instead.


The club don't seem overly worried about your 'Scores on the doors' though, given the score of their seemingly preferred caterer!
But a pizza delivery service from the nearby Costco could be both welcome by supporters and highly lucrative!

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Re: Catering outside Stadium

by Dave the rave » 21 Oct 2022 14:20

I'm going tomorrow with 6 hungry 10/11 year olds.
What sort of fayre can I expect?

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Re: Catering outside Stadium

by Hound » 21 Oct 2022 15:52

Dave the rave I'm going tomorrow with 6 hungry 10/11 year olds.
What sort of fayre can I expect?


Honestly just wouldn’t. Feed them before you come along or bring snacks

If you are very early then you’d prob be better off buying them shit food from McDonalds down the road rather than the catering


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Re: Catering outside Stadium

by RoyalBlue » 21 Oct 2022 18:35

Hound
Dave the rave I'm going tomorrow with 6 hungry 10/11 year olds.
What sort of fayre can I expect?


Honestly just wouldn’t. Feed them before you come along or bring snacks

If you are very early then you’d prob be better off buying them shit food from McDonalds down the road rather than the catering


Exactly what Hound says. Or if you are a Costco Member nip in there and pick up some much better 'junk food' at a fraction of the price,

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Re: Catering outside Stadium

by Zip » 21 Oct 2022 19:22

Hound
Dave the rave I'm going tomorrow with 6 hungry 10/11 year olds.
What sort of fayre can I expect?


Honestly just wouldn’t. Feed them before you come along or bring snacks

If you are very early then you’d prob be better off buying them shit food from McDonalds down the road rather than the catering


A big +1 unless you want to be ripped off and have shit good.

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Re: Catering outside Stadium

by AthleticoSpizz » 21 Oct 2022 20:10

Dave the rave I'm going tomorrow with 6 hungry 10/11 year olds.
What sort of fayre can I expect?

The food and the various options are better than they have been for years (and years), it costs an arm and a leg tho’, cheaper to eat at Miller & Carter en-route

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Re: Catering outside Stadium

by Hound » 21 Oct 2022 20:29

The pizzas in the fanzone aren’t at all bad (and friendly chaps) but it’s £10+, and will take a while

It’s prob your best bet if any I’d say for kids

The chips were appalling last time I bought them, and about £5 for a handful


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Re: Catering outside Stadium

by Dave the rave » 24 Oct 2022 11:05

Well I didn't get to read your replies before hand (thanks anyway) so just bought a load of chips from the van outside the north stand. They were ok but £4.50 a go was waaay too much for chips.

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Re: Catering outside Stadium

by Hendo » 24 Oct 2022 11:11

Dave the rave Well I didn't get to read your replies before hand


Absolutely textbook :D

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by Hound » 24 Oct 2022 11:25

Hendo
Dave the rave Well I didn't get to read your replies before hand


Absolutely textbook :D


Ffs :D

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Re: Catering outside Stadium

by Dave the rave » 24 Oct 2022 11:51

Hound
Hendo
Dave the rave Well I didn't get to read your replies before hand


Absolutely textbook :D


Ffs :D


It's the Hobnob way!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


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Re: Catering outside Stadium

by RoyalBlue » 24 Oct 2022 12:33

AthleticoSpizz
Dave the rave I'm going tomorrow with 6 hungry 10/11 year olds.
What sort of fayre can I expect?

The food and the various options are better than they have been for years (and years), it costs an arm and a leg tho’, cheaper to eat at Miller & Carter en-route


'Better than they have been for years (and years)' ? You weren't a fan of the excellent and varied, good value offering from Blue Collar then?

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Re: Catering outside Stadium

by AthleticoSpizz » 24 Oct 2022 12:35

Yes, and it was pretty much that, that I was referring too.
It left a ‘bit’ of a legacy.

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Re: Catering outside Stadium

by Nameless » 24 Oct 2022 13:02

Good to see a coffee van in the fanzone on Saturday.
Not so good that it was closed, due to
Unforeseen circumstances according to the note on the shutter.
Someone forget the milk perhaps.

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Re: Catering outside Stadium

by Green » 24 Oct 2022 20:17

Hound
Hendo
Dave the rave Well I didn't get to read your replies before hand


Absolutely textbook :D


Ffs :D


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Re: Catering outside Stadium

by JR » 24 Oct 2022 22:47

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Dave the rave I'm going tomorrow with 6 hungry 10/11 year olds.
What sort of fayre can I expect?

The food and the various options are better than they have been for years (and years), it costs an arm and a leg tho’, cheaper to eat at Miller & Carter en-route


'Better than they have been for years (and years)' ? You weren't a fan of the excellent and varied, good value offering from Blue Collar then?


I went to Blue Collar Corner for the first time before the game on Saturday - it was fantastic.

A great pint of craft beer, two really tasty bao buns, fair prices and a great outdoor seating environment. Surprisingly no queue for the bus from town either, so probably did all that in the same time I’d have queued for a beer and a pizza at the mad stad.

So if you can originate in town I’d really recommend it.

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Re: Catering outside Stadium

by Elm Park Kid » 25 Oct 2022 10:13

I used to just get a carvery from the upsey down! It was something ridiculous like £3.79 at one point.

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Re: Catering outside Stadium

by St Pauli » 28 Oct 2022 08:53

JR
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AthleticoSpizz The food and the various options are better than they have been for years (and years), it costs an arm and a leg tho’, cheaper to eat at Miller & Carter en-route


'Better than they have been for years (and years)' ? You weren't a fan of the excellent and varied, good value offering from Blue Collar then?


I went to Blue Collar Corner for the first time before the game on Saturday - it was fantastic.

A great pint of craft beer, two really tasty bao buns, fair prices and a great outdoor seating environment. Surprisingly no queue for the bus from town either, so probably did all that in the same time I’d have queued for a beer and a pizza at the mad stad.

So if you can originate in town I’d really recommend it.


Is there stadium bus pick up near blue collar corner, or did you have to walk to the station?

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