MCG lowers food prices

[kirky]

People really will whinge no matter what...

I think Gil is doing a fantastic job and it's OK to say so...

Reduced ticket prices
Abolished blockbuster tariff
Less unpopular fixture times
Allow fans onto the ground and now,
Significantly reduced food prices

This covers most of the things that fans (and particularly families) have been complaining about.

Don't see the need to have entitled whinge about health or what else he could have done just yet.

Agreed, people are bloody whingers - if they sold it for free they would still complain.

He is doing something about the cost - we should rejoice in that he is actually doing it, more so than his predecessor who was token in his actions.

 

[Dan]

Good on the AFL for making a difference but the food is still expensive and shit. Eat some Nandos or a feed at the pub before a game.

 

[Richo83]

beer tray castle/fort ?

Your authority is not recognized in FORT DRUNKEN DISORDERLY CONDUCT.

 

[dylan93]

About bloody time!!!

 

[X_box_X]

So is the AFL planning on subsidising venue catering Australia wide, or is it just at the MCG?

Silly me, of course it's just the MCG.

My understanding is that this is just an MCG thing.

Good luck getting Delaware North Services to come to the party. They are a massive catering company that was established by three brothers in the USA in about the 1930s. They are an International catering company that cater for some of the world's biggest airports and sporting venues. I can't imagine them agreeing to take any sort of hit, regardless if the AFL is subsidising some of the cost.

 

[Shane Hird]

Leaked pic of new chip sizes approved by the AFL.

MCG.. Pay less- eat less.

 

[Falchoon]

Fantastic initiative!

 

[Schauermann]

A tray full of beers for nothing?

[x] Like.

 

[dazbroncos]

So is the AFL planning on subsidising venue catering Australia wide, or is it just at the MCG?

Silly me, of course it's just the MCG.

don't you have a living allowance up there?

sorry …bad joke….

should be at proportional at all AFL venues.

GO Catters

 

[The_Wookie]

So is the AFL planning on subsidising venue catering Australia wide, or is it just at the MCG?

Silly me, of course it's just the MCG.

Theres 2 things here.

1) The AFL has so much more bargaining power at the MCG and Etihad than it does anywhere else from the sheer number of games those stadiums host.
2) Different stadium managers. Different scenarios. Different negotiations. Im sure the AFL would like one set of pricing across the board if it could be done.

Ill be further interested to see just how much the AFL pays the MCG this year, and whether theres a corresponding increase in its annual MCG payments.

 

[damochandler]

snitzel burgers are top notch. if you want to drink piss. go to a pub much cheaper

 

[BEEG]

They will just go up next year anyway

 

[X_box_X]

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Leaked pic of new chip sizes approved by the AFL.

MCG.. Pay less- eat less.

Is that 30 cents for a chip, or $4 for a ticking time bomb to a heart attack?

 

[Andrew Mc]

Not sure why people think this is an AFL thing:

"MCC CEO Stephen Gough said $2 million a year would be spent by the club and the catering company Epicure to subsidise the price cut until 2022."

It's the MCC behind this. Prices won't change anywhere else.

 

[Harry Yorkie]

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Leaked pic of new chip sizes approved by the AFL.

MCG.. Pay less- eat less.

"Food sizes will remain the same despite the drastic price change."

From the article on the AFL website.

 

[boncer34]

So is the AFL planning on subsidising venue catering Australia wide, or is it just at the MCG?

Silly me, of course it's just the MCG.

AFL aren't subsidizing shit.

 

[HolyWars]

Price drops.



People still whinge and ****ing moan.

 

[Shane Hird]

"Food sizes will remain the same despite the drastic price change."

From the article on the AFL website.

Thanks for clearing that up. Appreciate it.

 

[Blackas87]

I'm over in Perth and they have just mentioned on the news WA stadiums which haven't released their prices this year could be dropping their prices as well, although subi have said things like hamburgers will remain similar to last year but things like chips could be slashed

They also mentioned etihad stadium will be releasing their prices soon and they have also been slashing their prices.

 

[robaba]

It's a supply and demand thing. A lot of people are wising up about eating healthy and have stopped buying the crap they sell at the footy. The food companies should pay a huge tax for creating the obesity epidemic. Our hospital wards are filling up with big fat people brought up on a diet of rubbish.food . how can a salad cost $8? There is more profit in serving sugar and fat.

 

[00Stinger]

snitzel burgers are top notch. if you want to drink piss. go to a pub much cheaper

I love the schnitzel burgers

 

[Tas]

The price wasn't the problem with Docklands food, the problem was it was barely edible, that and Docklands is raping the clubs so I refused to buy anything there until the AFL acquire the stadium.

Have a meal at a pub and drink a few ales before the game, watch the game and then go for a few more ales if you are an alcoholic. The more lucrative food and beverages are for them, the less likely they are going to sell it back to the AFL early.

 

[The Passenger]

no change to beer prices, mcg pls

The beer prices aren't too far above what you would pay in nearby pub's in Richmond. I think it was $7 or maybe $7.20 for a schooner at the Australia England game. Afterwards at the pub we were paying $9 for a pint, which is the equivalent of a $6.75 schooner.

The fact you can't get full strength beer is a major campaigner, but the wowsers have won out there and it's unlikely to be reversed any time soon.

The food prices, however, have always been insanely overpriced at sporting venues, and the quality deplorable.

 

[Mervyn Beasley]

The beer prices aren't too far above what you would pay in nearby pub's in Richmond. I think it was $7 or maybe $7.20 for a schooner at the Australia England game. Afterwards at the pub we were paying $9 for a pint, which is the equivalent of a $6.75 schooner.

The fact you can't get full strength beer is a major campaigner, but the wowsers have won out there and it's unlikely to be reversed any time soon.

The food prices, however, have always been insanely overpriced at sporting venues, and the quality deplorable.

Not one to protect a wowser generally, but it's the idiots who can't handle their piss who lost out for all of us rather than wowsers winning.

 

[The Passenger]

Not one to protect a wowser generally, but it's the idiots who can't handle their piss who lost out for all of us rather than wowsers winning.

Yeah, in fairness, you are probably right.