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| Quote: Itchy Arsenal "For me I want the the club to maximise it's revenue streams whilst giving fans something different. Having a burger isn't different and I'm unsure how much the club will earn from this type of sale if the burger vans are 3rd party traders.
IL/SF need to be talking to and if required paying hospitality experts. No disrespect but most fans, myself included, have little or no knowledge on hospitality particularly where it will need to cover dispersed internal and external areas. I had one drink there last Friday outside near to the running track. I got there late and it was quite quiet but I still had to wait for my pint as there was one area with one tap serving lager. Ideally I'd like to get to the ground at least an hour before kick off but if I have to queue for long periods to get served I'm more inclined to go/stay in the pub.
My grandson loves it primarily due to meeting and have photos with players. This is great but I'm sure after a while the appeal will decline.
As I've said previously the concept is first class but if this is to be a long term success the club may have to invest and take a few risks accepting that some new ideas will fail but when the club do get it right the financial benefits could be significant.
We need activities to keep the kids happy whilst serving up drinks/food/music that will ensure that adults keep wanting to go back for every home game.
Kingfisher appear to be the beer sponsor so I'm not sure how feasible it would be to get say Real Crafty or the owners of The Central involved on match days even if its for a limited number of games.
It's early days and I'd like to think that the club can build on what seems to be a very popular concept with a lot of regular fans.
A great pity we couldn't have bought Sharpies(?) as this would have been perfect.'"
Excellent post & already there have been some good suggestions/ideas within the thread.
Look forward to seeing the fan village go from strength to strength in the future.
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| Quote: MattyB "Not what I saw earlier on in season and last at that top bar. Team of four, black t-shirts on with white branding (can't remember the name of the company). This time all staff had Wigan Polo tops and lanyards, one girl was a player.
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Deffo same people as last 3 games, deffo the same lads serving at that top bar were I saw you.
Didn't go last year so can't comment if they're the same as last year
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| Quote: cherryandwhitedavid06 "Are they going to open the new sports bar Whelan’s before the rugby too?'"
Give it a wide berth, the Warriors get zero income from it!
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| Well surely most Warriors fans will? It's not like there's no other option nearby.
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| Quote: Jukesays "Deffo same people as last 3 games, deffo the same lads serving at that top bar were I saw you.
Didn't go last year so can't comment if they're the same as last year'"
Definitely up until the long gap away from the DW cause I was talking to the main chap regards lack of cash payments.
Point now being its great things seem to be more 'in house' than previous. I can understand why they did it until they had the infrastructure in place.
Just need get rid of "Benny Burgers" and we'll be reet! ![Mr. Green icon_mrgreen.gif](images/smilies//icon_mrgreen.gif)
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| Quote: MattyB "Went into the fanzone again pre and post match. Very busy inside and a good number of people outside on the running track as it was a pleasant evening.
Once noticeable difference I saw was the running of the bar, in games prior the bar was run by a third party company.
For the Wire game both bars were ran by Wigan staff (at least one of them was a player from the ladies team). Great to see as hopefully all takings and profits go directly to the club.
With regards to the food we had Ben Westwood's burger van outside. So plenty to work on from that respect. I believe it is work in progress and will only get bigger and better for the remainder of this season and into next but it must be having a positive ÂŁÂŁÂŁ going into the club which is great.'"
I went with my nephew who was up from Dorset with his son. He absolutely loved the concept.
We didn't buy a burger from Ben's van ![Laughing icon_lol.gif](images/smilies//icon_lol.gif)
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