The latest plans for the hospitality area shows a fairly large kitchen of 95 square meters, I’m sure everything will be prepared in house.

I had to read that twice. I read it as meters square that would be a big kitchen

Not sure about the size of the kitchen but many sports venues outsource the catering side. I'm sure the club will make the right decision on whether to outsource or keep it in house either way it will be a good income stream for the club

Quote: Mable_Syrup "I had to read that twice. I read it as meters square The pink bit is the kitchen area https://planning.wakefield.gov.uk/onlin ... 986894.pdf

Quote: Mable_Syrup "I had to read that twice. I read it as meters square The pink bit is the kitchen area https://planning.wakefield.gov.uk/onlin ... 986894.pdf

Didn't we once outsource food and MC stopped it as we were loosing money from an income stream

I think you're right

My guess would be that the corporate meals will be in house.

I suspect the two concourse outlets on the lower concourse may be franchised out. I suspect there are a lot of companies that service these kinds of outlets as they are effectively only open matchday for a few hours.

The kitchens will hopefully be an all year round operation.

I am sure the Club will review everything, as the leap from where Hospitality is now and where it will be when the East Stand is open for business (as Vastman says to a year round operation) is pretty huge leap

Yep, It all boils down to what they were built for.

The south ends hospitality block is ideal for what it was built to be, a matchday venue. Once inside the facilities are more than adequate for most events, I'd go as far as to say it's quite luxurious. The problem is that it has none of the additions that would make it a fully useable year-round venue. It's tucked around the side of the ground with poor access and has no sort of entrance/reception. It's very industrial until you actually get in it. That's fine on match days and for a limited number of events but that's all.

Compare the to the new East stand with its direct road access into a large well lit and landscaped car park. Then enter it via the plush locking reception, Then make your way upstairs to the function area via a double staircase or what appear to be two lifts?? Enter a large well lit room with double aspect windows and a large capacity and excellent toilet facilities and a large kitchen.

The East stand is an easy sell for almost every type of function you can think of in a way the boxes aren't, other than on matchday.

I'd have never suggested the ground level hospitality suite of the flats to anyone for almost anything if I'm honest. But if the East stand matches the plans then I most certainly would. Parties, anniversaries, reunions, corporate events of all types you name it, you'd have to be an absolute snob not to consider it a very acceptable venue.

Not everyone wants or can afford a country house wedding either, there is a market for more affordable and functional wedding venues so long as the venue is smart and reasonably attractive, I believe the East stand will be fine for many. It's a very lucrative market.

In a nutshell, the East stand should be a salespersons dream.

Yes, a reasonable amount of money too IIRC.

If I remember correctly the monies from matchday catering were surrendered to some guy whose name escapes me in return for the prefab 'shop' in the car park. Turned out the guy was raking money out of us whilst the second's hand and portable building that he owned cost nothing like that much. He basically lent us something he owned and we handed over a top revenue source.

Probably more to it than that but that was roughly it, I think.

I've said it before Ted was not as bad as some make out, in fact, he saved the club when nobody else was interested, Please don't pretend they were because they weren't, it was all emotion and hot air.

However, Ted was in all respects a well to do market trader and his inabilities to run a more corporate club became exposed as the game moved on. He and his family simply didn't have the expertise to run the club in a modern way and this is a perfect example. Potential revenue streams became lost or grossly undervalued and in the end, we simply couldn't fund ourselves,

I really have a soft spot for Ted as people know, he wasn't a bad lad in his way. However, under the new regimes, you can clearly see where it was going wrong. There is nothing overly special about MC and the rest other than their apparent honesty and professionalism. He's just a proper and decent CEO used to running larger type businesses who just employs modern methods. Food/hospitality will have been one of the first things he would have looked at, I'd have liked to have seen his face.

PS: The best example is the Stadium. Under Ted and Sir Toad it would all have been done on drink-fuelled matey meetings with lots of funny handshakes and then right at the very end somebody would have realised that nothing was signed and nobody was accountable and well you know the rest. I may be being a bit unfair but you get the idea.

You’ve got to ask your self “why did rw sell us down the river “ when he was allegedly a trinity fan ? Beggars belief

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