A lesson in catering

[Skin]

RFC please take the caterers to Villa so they can see how it should be done!!!!!
Not just the speed, efficiency, damn good HOT food, but the prices and choice. £2 for the best pie I've ever had at a football ground, chips and curry sauce were available too with or without jumbo sausage, all cooked through properly as well. I'd eat it again now.
Saw the que and thought sod it at first, but compared to our catering staff they seemed to be able to add up quickly and also recognised we wanted to get back to our seats quickly as possible. like shagging, 3 mins in and out.
Very very good, puts ours to shame if we ever needed reminding.

[Row Z Royal]

I'm sure that the pies were lovely, but still being in the queue 5 mins into the 2nd half, still having 40 people in front of me and the lad behind the counter telling everyone that they'd run out of change, I wouldn't know.

I was too keen on spending £10 on a pie and a coke.

Aston Villa take note - your food mught be great, but you haven't got enough refreshment counters.

[Skin]

I'm sure that the pies were lovely, but still being in the queue 5 mins into the 2nd half, still having 40 people in front of me and the lad behind the counter telling everyone that they'd run out of change, I wouldn't know.

I was too keen on spending £10 on a pie and a coke.

Aston Villa take note - your food mught be great, but you haven't got enough refreshment counters.

ok maybe I was lucky, still was a superb pie though.

[STAR Voice]

I did notice the safety stewards outside Villa Park diligently removing the lids from anyone who tried to take a bottle in, with the explanation that "when they've got the lids on you can throw them and they make excellent weapons" - and then the catering people inside quite happily selling people bottles with lids on.

[Row Z Royal]

I did notice the safety stewards outside Villa Park diligently removing the lids from anyone who tried to take a bottle in, with the explanation that "when they've got the lids on you can throw them and they make excellent weapons" - and then the catering people inside quite happily selling people bottles with lids on.

The bottles I could see being placed on the counter (through my binoculars) had had the lids taken off. Coke and Fanta in this instance.

[papereyes]

They took the lid off my bottle.

The bastards

[anR]

They took the lid off my bottle.

The bastards

Tip for the future. Go to football with a spare one in your pocket.

[Reading Abbey]

They took the lid off my bottle.

The bastards

Tip for the future. Go to football with a spare one in your pocket.

Good thinking

[Row Z Royal]

They have one of those airport-style portable scanners that is specifically set to search for bottle tops. THEY WILL CATCH YOU!!!

[comeonthebiscuitmen]

They took the lid off my bottle.

The bastards

The first time that happened to me was at Elm Park in about '92

Because of course a Ten year old kid will use a coke bottle as a rudimentary mace to assault fellow supporters.

[Dirk Gently]

Also, did anyoen have a chance to get one of those massive steak burgers from he vans in the streets outside the ground?

They were fecking lovely, and cheap too - just goes to show that if you have different organisations in competition the quality and service to customers is superb.

In fact, the exact oposite to giving just one organisation a monopoly situation....

[RoyalBlue]

In defence of ther caterers at the Mad Stad (shock horror) their hands may be well and truly tied by their deal with RFC.

If fans are having to pay through the nose for everything associated with the club, it would be no surprise at all if the caterers were having to pay an absolute fortune for the catering rights. This would no doubt lead to them having to cut corners/costs/quality in order to make some money out of their operations.

[Dirk Gently]

In defence of ther caterers at the Mad Stad (shock horror) their hands may be well and truly tied by their deal with RFC.

If fans are having to pay through the nose for everything associated with the club, it would be no surprise at all if the caterers were having to pay an absolute fortune for the catering rights. This would no doubt lead to them having to cut corners/costs/quality in order to make some money out of their operations.

Absolutely - it's not the caterers I was criticising....

[Row V]

The 'Best' bitter tasted like complete piss on Sat at the MadStad. Made me feel sick enough not to try any more.

[Jerry St Clair]

A steward at the Madejski last season tried to prevent me taking plastic bicycle pump into the ground on the basis that I could "club someone over the head with it".

Thankfully a tango (of all people) intervened saying that "no, it would disintegrate on impact, so he can take it in".

[Dai Brainbocs]

He was really afraid you would stuff into someone's @rse and inflate them.

[M4 Junction 11]

RFC please take the caterers to Villa so they can see how it should be done!!!!!

Anyone know why the catering staff at Villa were behind that chicken wire?
I agree the food was much better quality than we get at home

[Jerry St Clair]

Anyone know why the catering staff at Villa were behind that chicken wire?
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Because they are really giant chickens?