A home game once every other week isn't going to sustain a Box Park type deveolpment. Yes nicer space for mobile street food vendors and some covered areas would be good, but there just wouldn't be the custom for a permanent leisure venue here.
Quote from: chrisw1 on March 30, 2021, 11:30:51 AMA home game once every other week isn't going to sustain a Box Park type deveolpment. Yes nicer space for mobile street food vendors and some covered areas would be good, but there just wouldn't be the custom for a permanent leisure venue here. Pre-lockdown, what was the demand for that Digbeth Dining Club thing once the novelty had worn off?
Quote from: dave.woodhall on March 30, 2021, 11:39:49 AMQuote from: chrisw1 on March 30, 2021, 11:30:51 AMA home game once every other week isn't going to sustain a Box Park type deveolpment. Yes nicer space for mobile street food vendors and some covered areas would be good, but there just wouldn't be the custom for a permanent leisure venue here. Pre-lockdown, what was the demand for that Digbeth Dining Club thing once the novelty had worn off?You mean in the North Stand car park? Always seemed very busy, but not sure how many fans are up for paying £8-9 quid for pre match food in the long run. Of course the club loose money on their own catering too. Still, I thought it created a good atmoshere and in a more structured environmemt with access to bars and toilets etc it could be very good.
It's a balancing act. Some years ago under Lerner the healthy food options were announced and someone on here charmingly replied that there were too many wankers going to football now and lads wanted pies and burgers. Equally, the loud minority believe that everybody wants the sort of expensive stuff that they do. I've long thought that the biggest problem in getting supporters spending time and money at the ground is that there's nothing else around Villa Park for miles so we've got used to the idea of meeting away from there and arriving at the match later.
Having lived in North America for a long time the one thing that is glaringly different is the choice of food inside and outside of the ground vs what we see out here. Football grounds have always been about getting as many people in, serving them a basic menu as quickly as possible in a compressed amount of time. A part of the solution is changing the overall experience of coming to be sports event versus focusing on one thing. From what I have read it apppears Spurs have gone down that road, but then their new stadium allows them to do that versus older stadiums across the country.
Food is far more important for Americans, what ever they do wherever they go there is food available and usually lots of it. Only in the US will you see someone go to the bar and order shit loads of food and then say as an afterthought, “does anybody want any drinks”