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BEER BIG BUSINESS AT BALLPARKS
The New York Post ^
| 7-4-2003
| Phil Mushnick
Posted on 07/05/2003 3:10:17 PM PDT by jmc813
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:15:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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LIQUID Gold: According to local beer industry sources, the Mets' and Yanks' concessionaires purchase half-kegs in bulk for approximately $29 per half-keg, roughly half the cost charged to bars and restaurants. Each half-keg holds 1,984 ounces, or 124 16-ounce servings. So, if the teams sell 16-ounce servings for about $6.50, which they do, the profit over the initial purchase price of each half-keg begins when the fifth beer is sold and that profit, per half-keg, is nearly $800.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: americaspasstime; baseball; beer; captiveaudience; cityownedparks; highprices; highwayrobbery; holdmuhbeer; pricegouging
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To: husky ed
see = buy
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posted on
07/05/2003 3:38:01 PM PDT
by
husky ed
(FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
To: Dont Mention the War
I'll see your Nickel Beer Night. Cleveland. 1974.
And raise you Disco Demolition Night. Chicago. 1979.
The PEN-ULTIMATE "Hold Muh Beer" event of all time.
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posted on
07/05/2003 3:38:21 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: xrp
Overpriced food and overpriced tickets -- how long until MLB collapses?A long time - if you go by Steinbrenner's bank account growing with the Yanks' latest attendance #s.
To: Senator Pardek
and the NBA?
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posted on
07/05/2003 3:39:23 PM PDT
by
xrp
To: xrp
and the NBA?Never followed it - I'm short.
To: 1rudeboy
And raise you Disco Demolition Night. Chicago. 1979.Disco Demolition Night didn't have Billy Martin!
To: jmc813
$6.50 for 16 ounces? What ballpark is that? Last time I was at Fenway it was 7 bucks for 12 ounces!
To: anncoulteriscool
I don't know about that, I think that the food vendors have a contract with the team owner (they give a flat fee for the year). ARA has the contract at some parks.
I went on an 8 ballpark tour in 2001 (just before 9/11). The most expensive beer I saw was in NYC (Houston is right up there now). Pittsburgh had the best selection.
Montreal had the lowest price (ballpark attendance was around 3500) (selection was limited to Molson and something else but it came in sizes up to 44 ounces).
Toronto had a Hard Rock Cafe that is flush with the ballpark (no entrance to the park fromt the restaurant but it provides an inside view of the park). I think that it cost $20(CND) to sit inside during the game but then most if not all of that was credited back in food/drinks.
In Houston, there are some bars right across the street from the new park (at home plate) and there are in/out priviledges so it is simple to go outside, catch some beers, and then go back into the park. I never did this but I would go to one of the bars where a friend would comp me some pints of Bass before going to the game.
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posted on
07/05/2003 3:43:02 PM PDT
by
weegee
To: Dont Mention the War
I'll see your Billy Martin.
And raise you Billy Veeck.
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posted on
07/05/2003 3:43:13 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: weegee
And don't forget Earl Weaver!
PacBell Park has Anchor Steam ...mmmm!
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posted on
07/05/2003 3:45:04 PM PDT
by
bootless
(Never Forget)
To: jmc813
$29 for 1984 ounces?!?
Wow.
I can tell you that you ain't getting all-malt brew at that price.
It costs me $20-50 to brew 640 ounces of real beer.
But, then again, it's worth drinking, unlike that corn/rice brew that they're selling at the ball park (although you can get Alaskan Amber (altbier) at Safeco).
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posted on
07/05/2003 3:46:13 PM PDT
by
B Knotts
To: husky ed
You can buy a Big Glup for $0.50 but it's $5.00 if you see it with the Matrix. Not if your wife has a purse big enough to hold several cans and a couple of bags of candy
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posted on
07/05/2003 3:46:34 PM PDT
by
SauronOfMordor
(Java/C++/Unix/Web Developer looking for next gig)
To: speedy
"The way the Yankees have been playing against Boston this weekend, they're going to be selling a lot more beer at Yankee Stadium."
George is preparing for "Hard Liquor and Handgun Night" at the old ball yard!
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posted on
07/05/2003 3:49:10 PM PDT
by
lawdude
(KAKKATE KOI!)
To: husky ed
So what's the difference between this and movie theater's?You can buy a Big Glup for $0.50 but it's $5.00 if you see it with the Matrix.
The theaters don't make their money from the movies (upwards of 90% go back to the distributor). They make their business on the concessions.
It's still only a nickel's worth of syrup regardless of what they price it at. Notice how they upsell popcorn and soda by offering free refills on the largest sizes only. It would seem that they are "giving away" more snacks this way cutting into profits but since the raw materials are dirt cheap, they win in this transaction.
Baseball teams make their money on the tickets, licensing deals, and concession contracts. The stadiums are publicly owned and while there may be a clause for maintainance, some team owners don't fullfill this part of the bargain.
Here in Houston, the owner of the team got the stadium rental for a nominal $1 fee and got additional revenue from renting the venue out for concerts.
I don't know of city owned movie theaters.
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posted on
07/05/2003 3:50:44 PM PDT
by
weegee
To: husky ed
"You can buy a Big Glup for $0.50 but it's $5.00 if you see it with the Matrix. "
Not to condone the outrageous prices at the movie theater, but an owner of a movie theater told me that the theaters get 0 profit from the movies, and their only profit margin is from the concession stands.
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posted on
07/05/2003 3:53:31 PM PDT
by
M. Peach
(eschew obsfucation)
To: weegee
You beat me to it....What's your source?
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posted on
07/05/2003 3:54:24 PM PDT
by
M. Peach
(eschew obsfucation)
To: husky ed
I also prefer to go to the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. Normal ticket prices and yet they have a kitchen and bar (beer/wine). A beer is only $2.25 for a can of Schlitz up to $3.50 for a pint of Newcastle Brown Ale.
A bottle of wine is around $11 and there are even nights with reduced prices.
Makes those high priced cokes seem really high.
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posted on
07/05/2003 3:54:58 PM PDT
by
weegee
To: lawdude
George is preparing for "Hard Liquor and Handgun Night" at the old ball yard!Great idea. Maybe the Padres could do the same thing. Outside of staging a trainwreck in real time at second base, that's probably the only way they'll ever draw a crowd this year.
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posted on
07/05/2003 4:01:00 PM PDT
by
SamKeck
To: jmc813
So, if the teams sell 16-ounce servings for about $6.50, which they do, the profit over the initial purchase price of each half-keg begins when the fifth beer is sold and that profit, per half-keg, is nearly $800. The reason I no longer go to games....I hate getting robbed...
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posted on
07/05/2003 4:03:03 PM PDT
by
Joe Hadenuf
(RECALL DAVIS, position his smoking chair over a trapdoor, a memo for the next governor.)
To: xrp
Yep '94 put a dent in my loyalty to baseball. I stop collecting cards and keeping up with all the stats of the players in baseball after that BS. I went to a free(paid for by the Chamber of Commerce) Ranger game earlier this season. There couldn't be more than five thousand fans, but because the Rangers always count the season ticketholders( I think about 12,000) irregardless if they are there or not. So the official attendance was like 17,000-20,000. Form what I understand this is what it is every night. Needless to say the Fort Worth Cats of the Texas League are becoming more popular. It only cost a buck or two to park and the best seat in the house is $9. The beer and food is reasonable, too.
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posted on
07/05/2003 4:09:16 PM PDT
by
neb52
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