Villa Park Catering.....

[eamonn]

Moet's more suited to a Night at the Opera.

Queen?

[eamonn]

One of the advantages Spurs have got, and I've said this many times about different places, is that theirs is the sort of ground where people have always got there early because there's a lot of choice close by. We don't have that - our tradition is to eat and drink well away from the ground and get close to Villa Park comparatively later.

I'm not sure Spurs is the best example of that, Arsenal is probably better. Spurs is in a pretty shitty area with not that much around it, London-wise anyway. Arsenal's got a massive area between Islington and Finsbury Park on its doorstep with hundreds of pubs, cafés and restaurants.

Yes, parts of Tottenham are more dodgy/disadvantaged than areas around VP.

[London Villan]

My mate tried to buy a coffee and a bar of chocolate last night - tried three different kiosks in the Lower Trinity and failed... didn't have any, pies only, only one place to buy a coffee with about 30 people in the queue.

[dave.woodhall]

They get told regularly and they know it's not good enough.

[Towser]

Upper Trinity last night, went to the counter, asked the guy if he was serving and he said he was, I asked for a coke zero, he took the top off and gave it to me and asked if I wanted anything else, my Wife asked for a tray of chips, he told me he couldnt server those and I had to go to the next counter (I could reach the counter from where I was, as could he), under no circumstances would he budge, the next queue had about 20 people in it, I said they are only there (pointing at them) he flaty refused to get them, said he wasnt allowed. We got in the next queue and waited and waited, when we eventually got to the front the girl said, I saw you in that queue, why didnt you get them there it would have saved you waiting, when I told her, she said something to a guy behind her who in turn went to the guy I first spoke to and asked him why he was only selling bottles of pop, his reply, I havent been shown how to serve anything else.

[Simon Page]

Moet's more suited to a Night at the Opera.

Queen?

1975 album. Had quite a big hit on it. The film was better, but so was everything with Margaret Dumont.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Can't we do the catering in-house? Or at least get some fans who haven't got season tickets to staff kiosks? I'm game.

[Pat Mustard]

For balance, the touch screens in the Lower Holte seemed to be working better last night (or maybe we have got used to using them more) - it was pretty quick ordering and collecting beers.  They also had the new Beerjet system being used that pours 6 pints at a time - although after years of saying they should pre-pour a load of beer and let people collect it, last night it ended up with a load of pints just sitting there not being bought at half-time.  I suspect once all of the new arrangements are in place in the Lower Holte things will be a lot better, and the same systems will be rolled out in the rest of the ground eventually.

[LeeB]

Can't we do the catering in-house? Or at least get some fans who haven't got season tickets to staff kiosks? I'm game.

There's a thought, some kind of indentured servitude for those on the waiting list. As a season ticket holder I'm all for it.

[eamonn]

Can't we do the catering in-house? Or at least get some fans who haven't got season tickets to staff kiosks? I'm game.

There's a thought, some kind of indentured servitude for those on the waiting list. As a season ticket holder I'm all for it.

With payment being given a boost up the queue.

[amfy]

When I was a student I did this and it was a way of seeing the last 20-30 mins of a game when I couldn’t afford to.
The facilities made serving a total car crash mind. Nothing worked like it should. You’d just get through it by knowing that it was 2 intense bursts of activity….about half an hour before KO & half time were absolutely bonkers, but other than that it was a total doss of tbh.
I used to sometimes work at St Andrews when we were away from home, & there it was much harder because they literally didn’t stop eating for the whole game!

[Pat Mustard]

When I was a student I did this and it was a way of seeing the last 20-30 mins of a game when I couldn’t afford to.
The facilities made serving a total car crash mind. Nothing worked like it should. You’d just get through it by knowing that it was 2 intense bursts of activity….about half an hour before KO & half time were absolutely bonkers, but other than that it was a total doss of tbh.
I used to sometimes work at St Andrews when we were away from home, & there it was much harder because they literally didn’t stop eating for the whole game!

Not surprising really, considering the alternative would be having to watch them play.

[VILLA MOLE]

A friend of mine runs a catering Firm and tendered for Villa a while back    His companies looks  for a longer term contract where they  heavily invest on the infrastructure of the

catering etc

However Villa were not really looking for a long term partnership

[Rudy Can't Fail]

That's strange given who has the contract.

[pauliewalnuts]

Who has the contract?