Utah Hockey Club announces reduced concession prices for popular items

[The Hockey Tonk Man]

That is ridiculous! The Lays chips are a dollar a bag at Dollarama, and fountain pop averages 30-50 cents per serving for the seller.

Don’t forget your 15%-20% tip also!

I’m a pretty decent tipper. But I’ll never tip at places that charge that. Or charge you $16/tall can of beer

 

[DudeWhereIsMakar]

Truly is a generous owner that's for sure.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Don’t forget your 15%-20% tip also!

I’m a pretty decent tipper. But I’ll never tip at places that charge that. Or charge you $16/tall can of beer

I’m a decent tipper, and even I’ve all but stopped tipping on iPads. If I’m signing on an iPad, there’s a good chance I’m standing at a counter being handed stuff out of a fridge or fryer, not receiving actual tip-worthy table service. Counters are for tip jars and spare change, not full-blown percentage tips. We lost the plot on this at some point.

Obvious exceptions for places like bars, but even then — I’ll toss a bartender a buck for pouring a beer, but a percentage-based gratuity for that is laughable. There’s a difference between hand-mixing a cocktail and operating a beer tap (or worse, just pulling a bottle out of a bucket and handing it to you). That’s like tipping at McDonald’s because they poured you a soda.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

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Adorable!!!

 

[vipera1960]

Ya never understood people shitting on purified water. Like it's just water with a tiny bit of salts added.

Dasani isn’t even purified water. It’s just Atlanta tap water put into bottles.

 

[Ciao]

These absurd prices are why people sneak shit in. Or try to.

And rightfully so.

Good on Utah.

. . . or better yet, just stay home and watch the game on your big screen TV with a fridge nearby.

Watching sports on a big flat-screen TV is much better than the 26" colour cathode-ray tubes some of us are old enough to have grown up with.

Quite aside from the high prices for everything -- tickets, parking and food -- and the travel time, I was turned off of live MLB games for a few years when a drunk fan behind me barfed down the back of my neck.

This isn't the 1960s anymore. We can watch these games pretty well and much more comfortably at home.

 

[joestevens29]

People who didn’t have time to eat beforehand is common, and also some people view a trip to the game as a one-off event where the food is part of the fun. If you’re only doing it once in a rare while, the exorbitant prices aren’t any more of a big deal than they are at a theme park.

But this dynamic does go a long way to explain why football tailgating makes so much sense. Get to the event early, make a full-blown picnic out of it on your own budget. Unfortunately it only works on weekends and only in places with plenty of space around the arena.

Anyway, good on Utah for catering to rhe fans early. Pull people in and let them fall in love with the game instead of grousing about getting gouged at every step. They’re not dumb, they now the price increases are coming, but at least let there be a honeymoon first.

Honestly when I go it's as if no one has time before the game or it's a one off event. The concessions are so jammed at games. Just blows my mind

Yikes!!! I have not been to a game since the pandemic, so this is shocking.

Lol that picture is at least a year old already, maybe two. Either way it is what it is I guess.

 

[TGWL]

Meanwhile in Edmonton

MGS has that combo 1 as well.. Only it doesn't come with any food, just the drink and cup combo.

 

[Bjornar Moxnes]

This should be common sense. You know how many $10 hot dogs I've bought in my life? None.

How many $3 hot dogs have I bought? Well, still none. Because I don't eat hot dogs. But if I did, you know damn well it would be more than zero.

Phil Kessel, we know it's you. Just admit it. The truth will set your wallet free!

 

[TD Charlie]

Not sure why more arena concessions don't follow this. There is argument to be made that concessions would be almost as profitable by reducing cost while increasing sales. Selling two pops as a dollar profit is just as good as selling one pop at two dollars profit.

At a certain point they literally can’t sell any faster than they already are. It’s all about finding the equilibrium, which I’m sure they pay a numbers guy on finding the sweet spot for pricing

Selling two drinks at a buck profit is NOT as good as selling one drink to make two bucks. Efficiency matters.