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Now you'd think they would have had discussions with Marshall about the average amount of hotdogs sold during games for home openers, homecomings, per month, and overall season to gauge how many they would require.
Do you really think "marshall" knows the number of hot dogs sold? Or just their typical $$ take?
FFS. Give a small business a break. It's week 1. Stewarts had 30 years to figure out how to sell their shitty 2-3 day old dogs (and then reuse the ones they didn't sell).
FFS. Give a small business a break. It's week 1. Stewarts had 30 years to figure out how to sell their shitty 2-3 day old dogs (and then reuse the ones they didn't sell).
Yea. Actually I would think items sold in the stadium are tracked. Most arenas and stadiums keep track of things like that.
And no I won't cut them a break. They stepped up to the plate to take the contract. They should have been prepared for what they were getting into. Most people, successful people anyways, are prepared what they're doing. And if Marshall doesn't have the information that would have helps them figure out what they might sell there is definitely information on the google machine that could have helped.
Not a real good look to drop the ball on day 1.
Shoot at least ask Marshall how many tickets were sold and how many were expected to be sold and multiply that number by 2 maybe 3 if you want to be safe. We are in WV and there are a lot of fats.
What kind of technologically-advanced, space age stadium do you think we have?... You want people in concession stands to be able to boil water. C'mon man.
Next you will want Croc pots to be plugged in and filled with actual cheese for the "nachos" as opposed to the permanently congealed 4 a.m. gas station yellow rubber substance we currently use.
Always gave Frostop the edge over Stewarts or Midway!
Agree. Surely the school has data on this stuff. Well, it is Marshall, maybe they don't.
Bullshit. Marshall can barely keep the stadium clean and painted. No way the University is counting individual hot dogs sold by a vendor from a single location like Midway is using. They most likely have historical sales $$, but highly doubt Stewarts ever provided individual hot dog # sold. PNC Arena (Raleigh) didn't even have vendor individual item #s sold a couple years ago. All they cared about was total $$$ sold event night, so they could collect their "royalty". Google?? LMAO. Good God.
Most successful food businesses when stepping into a new location (which this is) will always have a hiccup or two at the start. This is no different. In fact, this type of location is more difficult to estimate because it is a unique type of single location inside a stadium with constantly changing head count.
Like I said. Stewarts had 30 years to figure out pre-making enough hot dogs stadium wide 2-3 days in advance of gameday and then reselling what they didn't sell on gameday later. Midway's set up is completely different model from Stewarts and a completely different model than their own single Midway location across town.
That's not even necessary with the premade, reheated food you get in most of the stadium.
IMO a perfect formula for exploding "shrink/cost" and increased risk for big loss early in the operation.
Running out of food early on (in a stadium location) is always a safe preference to having hundreds of unsold items early on in the startup phase.
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Depends on what you're dealing with. Considering that Game1 and Game2 are in back to back weeks and hotdogs last longer than two weeks any unsold hotdogs could easily be carried over to Game2. It's far worse to run out than it is to have left overs. At least from the standpoint of public perception.
Just blame covid for shortages I guess. Everyone else does.
I’m not so sure about the claim that week old hot dogs would still be good.
I’ll defer to the Herd Nation expert on wieners, @herdfan06.
I’ll defer to the Herd Nation expert on wieners, @herdfan06.
he stopped attending games because they ran out of foot longs
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This company badly needs a food stylist.That's gross. I guess if you like eating this, it's ok....
A cooked hot dog will not hold a week even with out the bun.
i used to cook 200 hot dogs in 2 big stew pots every Sunday morning for home midget league games. No excuse to run out of hotdogs. I would say it was more of a finical gamble, not wanting to get stuck with food they would have to pitch.
Should have had someone cooking at the restaurant if more dogs were needed. Run them up in 15 minutes. Not well managed but hopefully they learn.
i used to cook 200 hot dogs in 2 big stew pots every Sunday morning for home midget league games. No excuse to run out of hotdogs. I would say it was more of a finical gamble, not wanting to get stuck with food they would have to pitch.
Should have had someone cooking at the restaurant if more dogs were needed. Run them up in 15 minutes. Not well managed but hopefully they learn.
Lol. Sure. An uncooked hotdog doesn't look like that after a week in storage.That's gross. I guess if you like eating this, it's ok....
I never said cooked. You're telling me they cook every single hot dog before arriving to the stadium? I seriously doubt that.
Uncooked and stored correctly yes. They could order over what they expect and have anything uncooked and unsold carry over the next game.
Given that hotdogs take all of about 5 minutes to cook I seriously doubt their cooking their entire stock prior to kickoff.
You posted “Most successful food businesses when stepping into a new location (which this is) will always have a hiccup or two at the start.” I’d say they dropped a big turd and not a hiccup. Midway was tee-totally underprepared. They best get their act together for this Saturday’s game with ECU which the crowd should be larger. They bid on being the hot dog vendor. Now they need to step up.
Let’s see, take the average home attendance, take the average sales of hot dogs per game. Divide that number by the cost of the dog. That should get you a pretty good number of dogs to start with.
The Cheesesteak I had on the east side concession stand from Truckin' Cheesy was very good. I had it for my pregame meal last Saturday and I will again today.
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