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Stadium Tech Report

November 17th, 2024

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An Ambitious Order: CityPark’s recipe of new technology and all-local food providers is a concessions winner

What's one of the toughest tasks for any soccer stadium? It's trying to figure out how to get food and drink in fans' hands inside the narrow available windows before and during the matches. For any team, it's a hard-to-balance puzzle, trying to match concessions performance with traditional fan behaviors, like tailgating right up until kickoff, as well as the...

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Zippin debuts ‘walk-up’ checkout-free concession stand at Arrowhead Stadium

Checkout-free technology provider Zippin has launched the first of its new "Walk-up" style concession stands, where checkout-free technology is deployed into an existing concession stand using existing appliances, kitchen, and counter space. Debuting at a recent Taylor Swift concert, the "Kingdom Grill" is the first checkout-free stand at the Kansas City Chiefs' Geha Field at Arrowhead Stadium. Unlike other Zippin...

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Coors Field bars are using Amazon One for age verification, payment

Fans at the Colorado Rockies' Coors Field can use their palm to verify their age as well as pay for drinks at a couple stadium bars, thanks to a new program from Amazon and stadium caterer Aramark. Amazon's Amazon One program, which allows customers to tie payment information to their palm, has been used before at Whole Foods stores as...

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Amazon adds Just Walk Out stores at Truist Park, TQL Stadium

Amazon has added two more Just Walk Out stores in stadiums, one at the Atlanta Braves' Truist Park and another at TQL Stadium, home of the MLA FC Cincinnati. As seems to be typical with Amazon these days, it does not issue a press release but instead lets the team or stadium announce the stores on their own. At Truist...

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STR Market Report: Venues, fans embrace checkout-free concession stores

When fans filter into T-Mobile Park in Seattle this year for Major League Baseball's midsummer classic, they will have a chance to see the newest concessions All-Star -- checkout-free stores -- in action. Three new Amazon Just Walk Out markets join one that was launched last season. The home of the Mariners has joined dozens of venues using checkout-free deployments...

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New Report! Self-serve drink machines, Super Bowl recap and more!

Welcome to the first issue of our TENTH year of STADIUM TECH REPORTS, the Spring 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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