Tigers v Newcastle Falcons (H) - Premiership - Sunday 3rd December 2023 - KO: 3-00pm

[jgriffin]

I seem to recall that the average spend per person based on tickets sold was around £3 to £4 per head on food and drink.

I remember the chippie used to do better business than that, even the players went over there back in the 2000s.

[Jimmy Skitz]

I seem to recall that the average spend per person based on tickets sold was around £3 to £4 per head on food and drink.

it would be more if they lowered prices, when you can got into the shop across the road and by the same size bottle of water for half the price ...

[sapajo]

In simple terms you would have thought that Tigers would be looking to maximise venue catering revenues.

And you would have thought that those revenues would be intrinsically linked to footfall. That is to say an attendance of 20k would have a proportionate increase from that of 15k.

In general terms, if that is not the case, something is wrong.

Tigers clearly decided that they could decouple attendance related catering revenue income by contracting it out instead for a non revenue based fixed regular income.

[ourla]

Tigers clearly decided that they could decouple attendance related catering revenue income by contracting it out instead for a non revenue based fixed regular income.

Is that true?

If so then it seems a difficult relationship to manage. The contractor will clearly want to max their revenue but Tigers won't have any incentive to help them do so. And the Tigers will want the customer experience to be really good but the catering company will just want to max their revenue.

[Tiglon]

Tigers clearly decided that they could decouple attendance related catering revenue income by contracting it out instead for a non revenue based fixed regular income.

Is that true?

If so then it seems a difficult relationship to manage. The contractor will clearly want to max their revenue but Tigers won't have any incentive to help them do so. And the Tigers will want the customer experience to be really good but the catering company will just want to max their revenue.

Unlikely, in my opinion. But I don't know for sure.