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Stadium Tech Report

November 17th, 2024

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Editorial

Local-provider concessions in St. Louis looks like a winner

After just 10 home games it's probably too early to call it a complete success, but our impression so far is that the 100 percent local-provider concessions operation at CityPark in St. Louis looks like a winner, with facets that other teams might want to duplicate at their own venues. To us, the all-in combination of great local food and...

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News

New Report! An in-depth look at the innovative concessions operation at St. Louis City SC’s CityPark

Welcome to the second issue of our TENTH year of STADIUM TECH REPORTS, the Summer 2023 issue! These long-form reports are designed to give stadium and large public venue owners and operators, and digital sports business executives a way to dig deep into the topic of stadium technology, via exclusive research and profiles of successful stadium technology deployments, as well...

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CityPark concessions, Part 7: How does it all work?

With still more than an hour and 15 minutes until kickoff, the main concourse at CityPark was already getting busy. Matt Sebek, chief experience officer for St. Louis City SC, confirmed the perception with a quick check of his phone. "It's 6:15 and there are already 5,000 people in the park," said Sebek, who was in the process of conducting...

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CityPark concessions, Part 4: Provider close-up: Farmtruk

One of the providers at the stadium is a business called Farmtruk, which bills itself as "farm to table comfort food," with an emphasis on fresh, local, free-range ingredients. Samantha "Sam" Mitchell, the owner, has been running a food truck for seven years, "bouncing all around town" in St. Louis, hitting about 200 events a year. One of those events...

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CityPark concessions, Part 3: The Food: Hard to match St. Louis’ menu

Just scanning the list of food items available at CityPark Stadium is guaranteed to make you hungry. BBQ pulled-pork sandwiches. Smashed hamburgers. Balkan beef wraps, which include onions, tomato, feta cheese, cabbage, and garlic and chili sauce. Chicken, pork or potato tacos. An Italian sandwich with ham, roast beef, salami, provolone, lettuce, tomato, pickle, onion "and a whole pepperoncini." Mac...

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CityPark Concessions, Part 2: The technology powering the operation

Almost every sports team has some version of a stadium or team app, usually developed by one of the main third-party providers in the market. These vary in quality and functionality, with most teams trying hard to engage fans by supporting digital ticketing and payment and loyalty services inside the app, with varying degrees of success in getting fans to...

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