Food prices at Camden Yards

[DenPA2002]

2 minutes ago, DirtyBird said:

Jack Daniels and Jameson are the only whiskeys available on the lower level concourse. 

I need a better whiskey selection, to improve most post game message boarding.

Can you throw a little bottle in your 'carry in'? Do they ever check for that?

[DirtyBird]

1 minute ago, DenPA2002 said:

Can you throw a little bottle in your 'carry in'? Do they ever check for that?

I try to follow the rules.

[survivedc]

3 hours ago, Rbiggs2525 said:

Our attendance would go up if they started lowering concession prices and bleacher seats. Let fans spend 20-30$ to get a ticket, beer and hot dog. 

They do let you bring in food. I go to enough games on a membership plan that it’s not worth buying inside and I always bring a big hoagie or something.

[Billy F-Face3]

If anyone sees that man outside the stadium with a bullhorn yelling "Ice ice cold waterrrr.... Only one dollarrrr!" tell him F*<&Face says "Hi, and thank you."

[DirtyBird]

2 minutes ago, Billy F-Face3 said:

If anyone sees that man outside the stadium with a bullhorn yelling "Ice ice cold waterrrr.... Only one dollarrrr!" tell him F*<&Face says "Hi, and thank you."

Even he raised his prices

[DrungoHazewood]

19 hours ago, KojiSplit said:

In regards to the general topic, I’ve stopped buying food and beer at nearly any sporting event I go to as the prices are outrageous especially at the walgreen where it’s $24 for craft beer.

Some parks still offer cheap food and beer like the Braves and when I was at Mariners game few weeks ago, beers were $4,5,6 all game.

Wait... you're telling me the Nats charge $24 for a single craft beer?  A few years ago I was in LA and I got a Dodger dog and a beer (I forget what kind) and it was $20 and I thought that was extortionist. I was kind of shocked when the Angels were charging $14 for a beer, and FedEx was long infamous for $11 cans of Miller Light. $24 should make the Nats owners cower in shame. That's basically like a soda machine where a Dr. Pepper is $11. They might as well have some kind of huge goon standing next to the concessions yelling out "hey yous, the beers are $24. If you don't like it, get the hell out of my stadium!"

I have heard that Atlanta is great for food prices. The Mercedes dome... thing... has the cheapest food and drink in MLS. I suppose the Braves are copying them. Good for them.

Aside from Atlanta, this feeds into the narrative that American sports are for upper and upper-middle-class people. Others need not come. Which is fine in a vacuum, fine for some kind of economics class experiment, fine for owners whose primary goal is short-term profits. But what happens down the road when the fanbase doesn't really include people who're not making six figures? Or since nearly all US sports are doing this, that a significant percentage of the population just doesn't regularly go to live sports because it's outrageously expensive? Like I mentioned, me, the wife, and two kids going to DC United on Saturday and the total bill will probably be $350, and that's with discounted tickets and if I can park at Ft. McNair next to the stadium for free.

[Sports Guy]

Some of these prices are done to get people to get season tickets.

Now, the discounts still make the items expensive but it helps. Guarantee there is some of that motivation behind it.

[DirtyBird]

6 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

Some of these prices are done to get people to get season tickets.

Now, the discounts still make the items expensive but it helps. Guarantee there is some of that motivation behind it.

I doubt many of the fans without season tickets even know season ticket holders are getting a discount 

[Rbiggs2525]

Today on a 1 o’clock game the lowest ticket price is 24$. If I wanted to take my son,  48$ nose bleed seat, 30$ parking, 30$ on 2 meals, 30$ 2 beers. We will have 20,000 fans if we are lucky and 5000 will be Yankees fans.

[Sports Guy]

19 minutes ago, Rbiggs2525 said:

Today on a 1 o’clock game the lowest ticket price is 24$. If I wanted to take my son,  48$ nose bleed seat, 30$ parking, 30$ on 2 meals, 30$ 2 beers. We will have 20,000 fans if we are lucky and 5000 will be Yankees fans.

Bleacher seats are $12 Mon-Thursday 

[KojiSplit]

27 minutes ago, Rbiggs2525 said:

Today on a 1 o’clock game the lowest ticket price is 24$. If I wanted to take my son,  48$ nose bleed seat, 30$ parking, 30$ on 2 meals, 30$ 2 beers. We will have 20,000 fans if we are lucky and 5000 will be Yankees fans.

You can get really nice upper box seats for you and your son with the kids free program. You can sit in 360 row 2 for about $40 total.

My daughter is too young to go to a baseball game but I use this when taking my nephews and niece.

https://www.mlb.com/orioles/fans/kids/cheer-free

[Sports Guy]

Any event you go to the food prices are crazy. 
 

Unlike many events though, you can bring food into the park, which helps. 

[Frobby]

19 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

Any event you go to the food prices are crazy. 
 

Unlike many events though, you can bring food into the park, which helps. 

I’ve taken to doing this routinely.  Peanuts, a sandwich and a bottle of water.   I do pay for a beer or two once inside.  

[Orioles Jim]

43 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

Bleacher seats are $12 Mon-Thursday 

I think todays a premium game of sorts and the $12 seats aren’t available.

Would love to be wrong about though, given that I’m playing hooky and walking over to the game today and haven’t purchased my tickets yet.

[DirtyBird]

I think the customer experience for concessions is just as bad, or worse, than the prices.

All the new self checkout stuff sucks, and is totally pointless when you have an employee standing right over you when you do it.

Edited May 2 by DirtyBird