BFC Catering has yet again excelled itself toneet

There must be one hell of a profit margin ....... which beggars the question......?????

The caterers know days in advance what the anticipated crowd is going to be. Loads of kids coming. Loads of 'outsiders'. Weather good. Near hottest day of the year. A money making dream......

In Ponty at 7:45 normal ko time. No cold drinks left. No alcohol left. But theres still very limited choice of hot food(no pies, Saus rolls, chips or burgers!) tha couldn't make it up!

Whoevers job is 'stock ordering exec' is deffo got the easiest job in the world.

A near/full Ponty with money to burn and.........

 

East sold out

 

Don't worry.

I hear the Great Escape at Huddersfield has led Flitcroft to demand a new chief executive, to bring us kicking and screaming into the 21st century.

We're going to be more professional and start acting like the Championship club we are.

If this Under-21 game were taking place in, say, 2015 instead of 2013, then all these problems would be a thing of the past. This new guy will see to it.

 

Jase ****** up again?

Don't worry he will have an excuse and if not the happy clappers will defend him.

The buck stops wi him ....its his job to oversee things.

Hth

 

Jase ****** up again?

Don't worry he will have an excuse and if not the happy clappers will defend him.

The buck stops wi him ....its his job to oversee things.

Hth

 

evans has eaten all the pies..........lol

 

Are we back in charge of the catering?

 

North Stand also same! FFS

 

last season was Lindleys last on the concourses according to Ben, not sure of date contract runs/ran out with regards tonight though.

 

I've always been puzzled as to why people can't go a couple of hours without stuffing their faces at a game.

We still couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery stand though.

 

In mine & Juddy G's. We fancied a a bottle of cider before and at HT(£15 ish). Our two lads would have spent on food & drinks (£20ish). The kids love getting snap at the match cos it's part of the attraction. Going with their own money, bit of independence etc.

The ale que was 70-80 deep just in Ponty. Continuous.

The clubs missed out on £10's of 1000's toneet. It's shambolic

 

BFC meeting prior to the match:

Ben Mansford: "How many tickets we sold?"
Box Office Manager: "Just over 15,000."
Ben Mansford: "Excellent. Should make a killing selling the new shirts this evening. Are they all ready to go?"
Store Manager: "We've got the shirts, but the shop is closed until Monday."
Ben Mansford: "Right. We couldn't open it just for tonight could we?"
Store Manager: "No can do I'm afraid, more than my job's worth."
Ben Mansford: "Never mind. We'll sell plenty of food and drink. We're all set on that front, yes?"
Catering manager: "Absolutely. We've got 5 pies and 2 burgers."
Ben Mansford: "Will that be enough?"
Catering manager: "Should be."
Ben Mansford: "For 15,000 people?"
Catering Manager: "Can't see why not, they will have all probably had their tea before they arrive."
Ben Mansford: "And drink?"
Bar Manager: "I've just sent Dave down the offy for a 4 pack of Fosters, so we're reight."
Ben Mansford: "All set then."

Post match debrief:
Ben Mansford: "How much did we make from hosting tonight's friendly?"
Accounts manager: "Fifty six pence."
Ben Mansford: "Oooh, better than last time. And some say we're not progressing."

 

They can. They just choose to eat out. They've gone to a venue that advertises catering facilities.

 

Laughing.

 

This

 

How do you get invited to these meetings?

 

True though I went to a poncey restaurant last week who's primary focus is flogging food and they'd run out of Apricot tart I was momentarily disappointed then had summat else.

Doesn't take away from the fact we are ***** at this sort of thing but at the same time it's a football ground not the chippy we go to.

 

Every away game I've been to in recent years, the catering has been miles better than Oakwell.

I can never remember going to a game apart from Hull away when there has been a problem with catering, and that was only due to the club refusing to serve Barnsley fans drink at half time due to trouble the previous season.

I constantly look at us and think we are being run like a Sunday League side. Without sounding like an over dramatic drama queen, it's a sackable offence last night from what went on with the catering. We had a national team playing at Oakwell for **** sake!

 

Jokewell by name jokewell by nature..

 

I know it's not a chippy mate, or a cafe, or a restaurant, but Oakwell claims to serve food. People make their decisions on the understanding they will be able to buy food at the ground. They serve the kind of food that appeals to kids. Instead of sitting down at home to a plate of something that's good for 'em, but they don't really like, your kid gets to go to the match and have burger and chips.

"Can we have tea at the match tonight dad? Can we? Please, please, please, please, please?"
"Oh, go on then. So long as you promise to be good."
"I will dad, I promise."

And it's not like you can go somewhere else if they run out at Oakwell. Once you're in, you're in, and you stay in otherwise you miss what you paid to go to see.

Loads of different places that are primarily entertainment venues also serve food. People plan their day on the understanding that they can eat and drink at these venues. If you couldn't, folk would make other arrangements, but as you can, to put forward the argument it's not primarily a food outlet misses the point entirely in my opinion. And I reckon it's worse than say a pub running out of food. In such a scenario you can simply go to the next one up the road. At Oakwell you either don't eat or miss the entertainment.