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Stadium Tech Report

November 17th, 2024

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Mercedes-Benz Stadium opens checkout-free concessions stand, using AiFi’s technology

Mercedes-Benz Stadium recently opened its first checkout-free concessions stand, one that uses technology provided by AiFi, a San Francisco-based startup. Called the ATL Market, the stand was built on open concourse space that was previously used mainly for tables. According to a stadium spokesperson, the store "soft launched" during an Oct. 2 Atlanta Falcons home game, and then was fully...

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Houston Rockets open 2 ‘Zippin Lane’ checkout-free stores at Toyota Center

The Houston Rockets and their caterer Levy have opened two "Zippin Lane" checkout-free concessions stands at the Rockets' Toyota Center, according to a press release from Zippin. Announced earlier this fall, the Zippin Lane versions of its checkout-free stores -- which are a prefab model designed to fit into previously empty or otherwise unused concourse spaces -- are both quick...

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Clover Sport announces big concession-device deal for New Orleans pro venues

Clover Sport said that ASM Global will use more than 1,000 of Clover's concession-purchasing devices to improve services at the Caesars Superdome and the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, in an announcement from the companies. Clover, part of financial-services provider Fiserv, said it will provide technology to support "digital, contactless, and self-service purchasing at kiosks and grab-and-go marketplaces" throughout...

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Editorial

LAST DAY! Please take our Stadium Connectivity Outlook Survey TODAY!

This is it! Today is the LAST DAY for you to take our Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey for 2022. We're closing the door to entries at midnight tonight, so please find a few minutes of your time today to complete the survey! Take the survey now! We've given you all kinds of good reasons to take the survey, the main...

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Update: Payment processing outage leads to free Guinness for Northwestern-Nebraska game at Aviva Stadium in Ireland

UPDATE, 8/31/22: While initial reports from fans who talked to concessions staffers blamed a Wi-Fi outage for the concessions issues at Aviva Stadium last weekend, a report in the Irish News outlet Indepentent.ie talked to the stadium's caterers, Levy UK + Ireland, who pegged the problem as being with the payment-processing provider, not the stadium Wi-Fi. From the report: Levy...

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Seattle’s Lumen Field getting an Amazon ‘Just Walk Out’ store

The Seattle Seahawks announced they will be opening a concessions stand using Amazon's "Just Walk Out" technology at Lumen Field this fall, the 15th such stand for Amazon in a stadium setting and the third venue in Seattle to embrace the hometown company's technology. Called "District Market," the concessions stand at Lumen Field will be a bigger version of the...

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