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The Catering

Baldybonce
Baldybonce Posts: 9,664
edited January 2012 in General Charlton
Had a pretty manky quarter pounder with cheese yesterday.
Wouldn't it be nice to have some Indian, Chinese, Thai stalls like the ones in Greenwich market.
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  • pork_pie
    pork_pie Posts: 452
    You get what you pay for. Football stadia are not the place where you expect fine cuisine. Have lunch beforehand somewhere or at home..
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,664
    I don't want fine cuisine but at £3.25 a pop i expect something a bit decent. I did have lunch at home but i'm a greedy b/stard.
  • pork_pie
    pork_pie Posts: 452
    lol £3,25 is cheap for Charlton catering. You seen how much they charge for hot drinks?! Thieving b*stards. Try a pie next time - they seem to be popular. COYR
  • pickwick
    pickwick Posts: 1,649
    Stick to the pies, the burgers are awful
  • CrayAddick
    CrayAddick Posts: 3,913
    The ques are a joke
  • kings hill addick
    kings hill addick Posts: 5,781
    It's very expensive and average at best, but if you are hungry at half time it's nice to be able to get hot food.
  • Plaaayer
    Plaaayer Posts: 9,002
    Must be doing alright in the league people have reverted to moaning about the food.
  • CrayAddick
    CrayAddick Posts: 3,913
    Sunday Moan before the football on tv.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,664
    What football on TV?
  • MattD
    MattD Posts: 1,530
    Burgers in the east stand on the slope used to be fit.

    Since i moved to the west 2 years ago the ones outside the north stand are average..

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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,074
    Odd experience yesterday. I bought a pint of lager and handed over a tenner. The guy that served me entered £5 on the till register. I noticed this, and told him that it was a tenner not a fiver, at which point he called over his supervisor to cancel the sale and put the correct amount in. I told him that that was unnecessary and that all he had to do was add five pounds onto my change, the result would be the same, but without any messing about. I then had three of them arguing that that would put the till out. Am I missing something? No wonder the service is so slow.
  • jamescafc
    jamescafc Posts: 1,832
    The service is useless and the food/drink terrible quality and ridiculously overpriced.

    It is so badly done I'm pretty sure the revenue it provides must be fairly minuscule or the club would sort it out.
  • jamescafc
    jamescafc Posts: 1,832
    Do the catering company just pay the club X amount a year to serve food and drink and they keep all profits?
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,834
    Sad to see in Bart's and the concourses how much money we do ourselves out of each week because the service cant cope. Cant blame the people working as they graft non stop but there must be a better system as we must lose out on hundreds if not thousands each week in lost revenue with people giving up on getting served.
  • jamescafc
    jamescafc Posts: 1,832
    First easy solution was to make all items 1, 2 or 3 quid to save the buggering about with small change.

  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,834
    Could even have an oyster card type thing loaded up with cash
  • jamescafc
    jamescafc Posts: 1,832
    I guess it depends on the margins made. We're always reading how pubs makes so very little profit on a £3.00 pint a lager so perhaps no point the club bothering
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,118
    We're cheap compared to Fulham. Dick Turpin served me at the Cottage...
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,834
    Even more reason to maximise volume of sales then id say.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,664
    Food has huge profit margins thats why shops are all becoming Kebab/indian etc.

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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,074
    It doesn't have massive margins for outlets that only open once a week though. The fixed costs are the same but the returns are small.
  • harveys_gardener
    harveys_gardener Posts: 7,038
    Two gorgeous women working in North upper yesterday, bubbly one serving, the other pouring.
  • Riscardo
    Riscardo Posts: 2,338
    Go on a diet
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,050
    I can't believe our club struggle to potentially serve 20,000 people in a 15 minute period. Poor, poor, poor :-)
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,395
    Agree the food quality is pretty bad, I had a burger at half time as I was feeling a bit dknur and it was one of those where you could feel it slowly making it way down when you swallowed a chunk.

    It doesn't actually cost that much more to produce food with fresh ingredients, and of course the increase in sales volume would more than make up for that. But your staff costs would practically double as you'd have to have a prep kitchen. It's a lot of work to cater for thousands of people - Not forgetting that these people who have to be chefs rather than catering outlet assistants or whatever they're currently called, further increasing costs.

    Can't ever see it happening. Captive audience and all that.

    But a high-quality van outside the ground would do a roaring trade.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,664
    Chunes
    that's what i was thinking, outside or inside behind the east stand some quality thai or chinese.
  • Plaaayer
    Plaaayer Posts: 9,002
    edited January 2012
    Love a proper moan up
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,771
    Our burgers must be the worst on the country - They really are vile.
  • Plaaayer
    Plaaayer Posts: 9,002
    Shock.
  • O-Randy-Hunt
    O-Randy-Hunt Posts: 10,696
    @harveys gardener

    The brunette one pouring caught me giving it a 'ppwwwooaaaarrr'

    Very nice. Very nice indeed

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