Pricing at Ewood.

[Hasta]

Does Fosters cost  £4.50 just 15 metres away in Blues?

[MCMC1875]

Just now, Hasta said:

Does Fosters cost  £4.50 just 15 metres away in Blues?

Can you believe they put prices up before the game and reduce them at 6pm.

[JHRover]

How hard would it be to put a real ale stall up in this new 'Jack's Fan Zone'?

A temporary bar, do a deal with 3 Bs or one of the many other local breweries who produce cask ale. Provide us with 3 or 4 ales, a few barrels of each, every home game, charge no more than £3 a pint. I know for a fact that ale from there costs about £1 a pint to buy from the brewery so £2.50 or £3 a pint is more than enough to make money on. 

I'd drink a few pints every game and go there rather than the pub. I'd sooner my money go to Rovers. But I'm not being made a fool of with the prices and choice available at present. 

Other clubs are realising that tastes are a changing, but seems we are in the comfort zone and that's all there is to it.

On a bigger scale I'd like to see the redundant Darwen End lounge converted into a 'pub' for pre and post match food and drink, again reasonably priced and good quality.

Can anyone tell me what the new fan zone is? Other than 2 or 3 banners I cant see any difference to last season?

[AllRoverAsia]

2 hours ago, Pedro said:

What a joke the pricing and quality is. I didn't have chance to eat before setting off so thought I'd grab a pie at the game. £3.60 or £5.50 for a pie and hot drink. I got the deal of the century and the hot chocolate was just hot, see-through fluid, the colour of shitty tea and tasted of nothing other than cardboard - so crap I even took a photo of it ?. 100% will not be buying another thing from the concourse. Whoever is in charge of that, needs to quickly snap back into reality as I've never seen the queues so small.

That truly looks revolting. 

[Mattyblue]

Just now, JHRover said:

How hard would it be to put a real ale stall up in this new 'Jack's Fan Zone'?

A temporary bar, do a deal with 3 Bs or one of the many other local breweries who produce cask ale. Provide us with 3 or 4 ales, a few barrels of each, every home game, charge no more than £3 a pint. I know for a fact that ale from there costs about £1 a pint to buy from the brewery so £2.50 or £3 a pint is more than enough to make money on. 

I'd drink a few pints every game and go there rather than the pub. I'd sooner my money go to Rovers. But I'm not being made a fool of with the prices and choice available at present. 

Other clubs are realising that tastes are a changing, but seems we are in the comfort zone and that's all there is to it.

On a bigger scale I'd like to see the redundant Darwen End lounge converted into a 'pub' for pre and post match food and drink, again reasonably priced and good quality.

Can anyone tell me what the new fan zone is? Other than 2 or 3 banners I cant see any difference to last season?

They had a chance to do just that with the ‘1875 Lounge’ last season, yet just had the same stuff on sale as everywhere else, therefore it was quickly dropped as an idea when nobody trapped.

It’s relatively simple stuff, yet there’s hardly been a new idea down there since the 90s.

Edited August 18, 2019 by Mattyblue

[Gary C]

For the Charlton game we tried the new Concorse menu and bought some dirty fries and they were ok but for 4.50 for how much we got was daylight robbery. We always take in our own drinks and snacks generally as when we do buy anything it's generally like the drink pictured in an earlier thread

[AllRoverAsia]

 

 

 

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4 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

not really. 

I bought the chips on the open fan day. The quality is miles better than last season. I tend to buy a burger from outside the ground at the burger van behind the club shop

how does our prices compare to other championship clubs? 

Whenever I'm over I buy from there, never a drink or food from inside Ewood. Burgers the size of plates and as much onion as I can handle.

I don't drink pre-game or at half time or I would be in the bogs too much and hate crowds and queuing in crowded places.

[Mattyblue]

Just now, AllRoverAsia said:

Whenever I'm over I buy from there, never a drink or food from inside Ewood. Burgers the size of plates and as much onion as I can handle.

I don't drink pre-game or at half time or I would be in the bogs too much and hate crowds and queuing in crowded places.

No issues at Ewood then...

[Oldgregg86]

1 hour ago, MCMC1875 said:

Can you believe they put prices up before the game and reduce them at 6pm.

Yes. Yes I can

typical waggot

[AllRoverAsia]

Just now, Mattyblue said:

No issues at Ewood then...

Not once I'm in my seat. LOL Just have to avoid a halftime pee.

[SamTheShrew]

My local club geographically now, Shrewsbury Town, have pop up Woods brewery bars in every concourse. £3.60 for a pint of real ale. My dad has MND so not made it to Ewood for a while now as I go with him to the Town games occasionally due to his reduced mobility. £4.50 for fosters would sadly not entice me back to Ewood sooner!

[Colt Seavers]

46 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

Not once I'm in my seat. LOL Just have to avoid a halftime pee.

So you literally won't spend a penny at Ewood Park ?

[AllRoverAsia]

Just now, Colt Seavers said:

So you literally won't spend a penny at Ewood Park ?

Well sometimes I've just had to, its an age thingy 

[Ossydave]

Regardless of how shite and expensive both food and drink are, they made a meal (no pun intended) of how it's all gone digital etc before the first game. Not sure how everyone else got on but they had literally one till accepting contactless in the bburn end.

[Oldgregg86]

It’s about time they sorted the WiFi’s out

[Crimpshrine]

Today's puzzle:

Blackburn Rovers charge £4.50 for a pint of beer and £3.60 for a pie, They have an average attendance of 14,000 at a home match.

If 1 in 5 fans buy a pint at each match and 1 in 4 fans buy a pie, how many matches will it take to recoup the £7,000,000 spent on a  non playing striker ?

[Stuart]

2,800 x £4.50 beer = £12,600

3,500 x £3.60 pie = £12,600 (!)

Total matchday takings, £25,200

£7,000,000 is 278 food/match days.

23 games per season = 12 seasons.

[Crimpshrine]

Just now, Stuart said:

2,800 x £4.50 beer = £12,600

3,500 x £3.60 pie = £12,600 (!)

Total matchday takings, £25,200

£7,000,000 is 278 food/match days.

23 games per season = 12 seasons.

Well done, gold star. ( assuming no interest on loan repayments !)

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

8 hours ago, Tom said:

Found this tweet interesting:

Spurs new stadium stays open after the game, people genuinely seem to stay around having a beer and socialising there 

Ewood was a state of the art Stadium about 25 years ago..now starting to look jaded.

The facilities at Spurs new ground are simply stunning,no equal in the UK.

[Tom]

And also assuming the club get the pies and beer for free 

[scotchrover]

Sadly, £4 odd a pint is the norm outside the Blackburn area nowadays. Even some of the nicer pubs within the area are charging around that now. Therefore, the price- although it’s not great- isn’t my main gripe. What does annoy me though is the quality of it.

The Fosters? It always tastes watered down.

The Guinness? Absolutely no attention paid to the rule of letting it stand, before topping it up. I know it’s from a can, but I still think it tastes better following the Guinness pouring rule! 

[Stuart]

9 hours ago, Tom said:

And also assuming the club get the pies and beer for free 

We kept our powder dry in January don’t forget.

Stocking up on 12 years worth of pies was the reason.

[Uddersfelt Blue]

Interesting debate.

Clearly drinks and food in or around the ground are going to be more expensive. They always have been and not much different to most football grounds. 

What I object to is the club increasing prices under the guise of improvements to service, digitalisation or whatever. Changing suppliers also doesn’t always mean better, probably just lower costs and more profit.

My son and I occasionally buy a pie but have stopped doing so after an increase of almost 20% in price. I’m pretty sure they were £3 last season and £3-60 this. Still overpriced when you can get the same in Leavers for under £2. 

Whether £4+ is good value for a pint of Fosters is a matter of opinion!!!

If fans want to overpay as part of their match experience then that’s fine and the club benefits, but it’s still individual choice. 

[Mercer]

Came across Sodexho and Compass a good number of years ago in a work capacity and I wasn't overly impressed with their approach.

Have also experienced their event catering etc on numerous occasions and although I recognise event catering at big events isn't easy, generally unimpressed with both their product and service.

At the end of the day, the buck stops with Waggott on this one as presumably he signed off on the deal with Sodexho and a key part of the deal should be to provide a quality product and service at a reasonable price for the supporters.  Supporters can and should vote with their wallets and support the many local businesses in the area that can provide good quality and value in their pre match refreshments whether it be a bag of chips, a pie, a sandwich, a lunch, a pint or even a nice glass of red! 

Edited August 19, 2019 by Mercer

[Darwen Rover 007]

3 x fries and a drink cost me £11 something..  I mean come on!! Daylight robbery!!