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All you can eat baseball seats
By admin | April 1, 2008
Many baseball stadiums are selling tickets that come with unlimited snacks. No longer do you fat hogs have to wait online for 30 minutes or more to get a hotdog, instead it’s provided throughout the ball game. You don’t even have to get up to use the bathroom, the stadiums updated seats easily turn into a toilet so you can take a crap and never miss a moment of the ball game!
Dozens of arenas, stadiums and tracks have offered tickets that come with unlimited snacks. The seats have been a hit with fans, a moneymaker for the venues and a worry for obesity-conscious health officials.
Instead of paying for a ticket and multiple trips to the concession stand, the ticket includes everything and costs about 50 percent more. Alcohol and desserts are sold separately.
“I don’t think you’re ever going to get your value from it food-wise, but convenience-wise, I think it is a heck of a lot nicer than waiting in line for 20 minutes,” said Drew Nurenberg, 30, of Malvern, Pennsylvania, who bought all-you-can-eat seats with his wife for a Philadelphia Flyers game last month.
Nearly half of the 30 major league baseball teams have added the all-inclusive seats, and others are looking into it. The NHL has nine teams offering the deal; the NBA has six. The idea has not caught on with the NFL, but NASCAR has put it in overdrive, selling the tickets at multiple racetracks.
Fans get bargain grub, and the venues are able to charge a premium for foods they already buy cheap in bulk.
The result is like a giant hot dog on a hook — a way for teams to lure new fans to their games or get old ones to switch to higher-priced sections. In the past, unlimited food and drink was reserved for luxury suites, which cost up to six figures a year.
The Los Angeles Dodgers first offered all-you-can-eat seats in their right-field bleacher pavilion last season. They averaged 2,200 fans per game in a section that typically opened only when the left-field bleachers were full.
It seems to me capitalism has no limit.
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