Skip to main content

Catering.

Catering.

Poll Poll Who would you trust to run the catering to a decent standard at Deepdale?

  • Total voters
    60
  • Poll closed .
Jack Daniels

Jack Daniels

PNE-ONLINE Boxing Expert.
Joined
Jun 7, 2004
Messages
55,149
Location
PR2
We all know how bland ours is.

Here is a look at the very good - and very bad - of the football catering world.

Here are a few quick selections of British fare to be found, 2 good, 2 bad. Shows what can be done with a little imagination. I selected food that I would eat at the footy although many would absolutely love the food that Villa serve up. The Arsenal one though is in based upon its scandalous pricing.

Facebook

www.facebook.com www.facebook.com

Cheeseburger and chips at Arsenal women today
💷
£21.50
🤯


1664353777573.webp


Bulpit beast with chips at Hungerford Town -
💷
£8.50
1664353847766.webp



BBQ pulled pork and cheesy chips at Hull City -
💷
£4.50
1664353889560.webp



Cheeseburger at Millwall -
💷
£5
1664353994898.webp
 
Cheesy nachos at Blackburn Rovers -
💷
£4.70
1664354260675.webp




Pork and stuffing bap with roast potatoes at Barnsley FC -
💷
£5
1664354299616.webp



Chicken strips and chips at Tottenham Hotspur -
💷
£7.99
1664354364069.webp




Bacon Roll at Reading FC -
💷
£4.60
1664354449438.webp
 
That Hull City one looks good and I don't even eat meat. No idea which league Hungerford Town are in but that looks alright, aside from unmelted cheese, wholesale chips and the last shavings of a lettuce.
 
The good thing with that Hull offering is that if you miss your mouth there's usually only a 50% chance you'll stain your home shirt. Screwed if you drop a bit of chicken at Spurs though. Yikes 😬
 
To be fair, PNE could serve absolutely banging food and I wouldn't bother queuing up for it anyway.

They need to sort out how they do drinks, pouring one pint at a time on the slowest pumps I've ever known.

Surely they know how much they sell on average? Just pre pour them, it's garbage beer anyway so no one will care if it's sat there for a couple of minutes.

Serve the beer quicker, sell more of it. Dumb fucks.
 
SF said:
To be fair, PNE could serve absolutely banging food and I wouldn't bother queuing up for it anyway.

They need to sort out how they do drinks, pouring one pint at a time on the slowest pumps I've ever known.

Surely they know how much they sell on average? Just pre pour them, it's garbage beer anyway so no one will care if it's sat there for a couple of minutes.

Serve the beer quicker, sell more of it. Dumb fucks.
Click to expand...

The problem is, they clearly don't care how much they sell. If we had our own in house catering team who's job was to maximise revenue for the club you'd suddenly see things like this happening. Lets hope once the Heathcotes deal ends they do something different, no way I'd eat any of the food they serve or queue for it and I rarely have a pint due to the issue you mentioned.
 
Exactly this ^^^

For the first time this season we decided on trying to get a pint at half time on the town end (sheff u)

Went down at 3.41pm

Queue wasn’t wasn’t horrific by any stretch

I’ve never seen pints poured so slowly , it was painful , finally got to the front at 4.02pm to be served by the most disinterested person on the planet .

Abandoned the idea of a pint and ordered a half pint , threw it down my neck and straight back to my seat having missed the first 5 mins of the second half .

First and last time I bother , they really don’t care how many people they serve , they simply can’t be arsed either way.
 
There's lots of good bottled canned types of Beer/ Lager. It has a shelf-life of several weeks/months as a rule.
And there has been a wide choice of tastes for many a year now.

Get rid of this stupid nonsense of Kegs anyway - at half-time, time is at a Premium for Customers anyway !!
 
Pennyhome said:
Exactly this ^^^

For the first time this season we decided on trying to get a pint at half time on the town end (sheff u)

Went down at 3.41pm

Queue wasn’t wasn’t horrific by any stretch

I’ve never seen pints poured so slowly , it was painful , finally got to the front at 4.02pm to be served by the most disinterested person on the planet .

Abandoned the idea of a pint and ordered a half pint , threw it down my neck and straight back to my seat having missed the first 5 mins of the second half .

First and last time I bother , they really don’t care how many people they serve , they simply can’t be arsed either way.
Click to expand...
Agree same in Inv Pav as well to slow poring a pint. By time they finish game ends lol.
 
It's a challenge.

Part time staff with irregular shifts on weekends and minimum wage is never going to attract high achievers. The service suffers as a consequence.

The service is so sloooooooooooooow.

If we put our minds to it, we could create the best half time hospitality experience in the league. Anyone could. And even if we didn't, we could improve things if we tried.

Our fastidious cost monitoring and timely tax paying will always top trump that I'm afraid.
 
Back
Top