The new catering at St Mary's

[northam soul]

Did my eyes deceive me or was there a person walking around the front of The Chapel with one of thise ice-cold drinks back-pack type things (but on wheels) selling Come and Water? She seemed to appear and disappear just as quickly.

 

Selling come and water eh, oh well iguess it takes some of the saltiness out by watering it down.

[Trader]

No food ran out in the family stand and virtually no queuing

 

Could these two facts possibly be related?

 

Obviously the people in the family stand have more sense than the rest of the ground.

 

Tip: take your own food - it's cheaper and infinitely better.

[Professor]

Under the Itchen, there were just 3 queing positions for food and if you joined the queue just before the half-time whistle, you got served just after the re-start. There was no obvious reason whey there couldn't have been 4, 5 or 6 people serving instead of 3. The extra sales would have more than paid for the extra wages.

[barney]

Left 10mins before half time to get my nipper his ritual hot-dog in the kingsland.

None were available,but try down the other end i was told.

Walked all the way down the other end and by now the crowd was forming asked if hotdogs were available,yes was the reply.

queed up to get to front,sorry another 20mins for the hotdogs.

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[RedArmy]

Why do people feel the need to eat at a football match? .

Maybe because it was lunchtime.

[woodfc]

Carrot cake? Special people?

 

Does he turn out at the back for the MK Dons ... or is that a Wotsit?

 

We'll have fun with him next week !!

[saintwiz]

I do hope no one is complaining. This time last year we nearly had no club etc etc etc blah etc blah. Running out of pies is just Cortese running the club as a business. If we upset a few people on the way then good. Upsetting as many people as possible means the business is being run as efficiently as possible. I imagine the Echo bought all the pies out of spite so it is definitely their fault as well.

 

And the official site says the catering is brilliant and that's the only source of club information anyone could ever need. Hopefully they'll post up a twenty five minute video interview with the head catering supervisor on Saintsplayer saying how fantastic everything is. I imagine I should be able to crack one off to it.

 

Then I'll get back to my football management simulation games.

quality lol etc....

[Pedro]

Pastie was gross, was sat on toilet most of the night.

[stevegrant]

I do hope no one is complaining. This time last year we nearly had no club etc etc etc blah etc blah. Running out of pies is just Cortese running the club as a business. If we upset a few people on the way then good. Upsetting as many people as possible means the business is being run as efficiently as possible. I imagine the Echo bought all the pies out of spite so it is definitely their fault as well.

 

And the official site says the catering is brilliant and that's the only source of club information anyone could ever need. Hopefully they'll post up a twenty five minute video interview with the head catering supervisor on Saintsplayer saying how fantastic everything is. I imagine I should be able to crack one off to it.

 

Then I'll get back to my football management simulation games.

 

:lol: Spudgun 'Likes'

Watch this space on that particular feature

[fish fingers]

Great all day breakfast and a couple of excellent pints of Tetleys - oh sorry that was the Dell Supporters Club

 

:vuvu:

 

clearly you are lying.

[Spudders]

 

 

Watch this space on that particular feature

 

ooooh are we getting a new smilie?!!

 

 

[stevegrant]

ooooh are we getting a new smilie?!!

 

 

No, the forum now has a Facebook integration feature, so we can add "like" buttons to threads, news articles, blog posts, etc. Needs testing first though.

[Spudders]

No, the forum now has a Facebook integration feature, so we can add "like" buttons to threads, news articles, blog posts, etc. Needs testing first though.

 

Cool.

 

So long as it's not so intergrated that being online on here shows us as online on facebook as well. Currently I can get away with being on here whilst 'working from home'

[fromthedell]

went down to get my pie and coffee at about 42 mins after queing for about 10 mins was told all hot food sold out

very annoyed at the level of service

[Jez]

Before the game got a pint, when it was given to me I said to the lad behind the jump, good job I only wanted a half to which everybody stood near me laughed it went straight over the numptys head behind the bar as I had half a pint of lager and half of froth.

 

Bit harsh of you to throw the pint back at him for only half filling it

[martel]

My dad got a pasty and scorched the skin off the roof of his mouth. So, no change as far as I can tell!

 

Good job he did not have the Madras pastry, as it would have scorched the skin off in another area; not until the following day though!

[Viking Warrior]

I wouldnt be suprised if NC had his staff auditing the service and standard of food that was being delivered to us the fans.

 

He did take notice of our concerns hence the reason for changes. I would not be suprised if he has not already been in touch with the

senior managers of the catering company concerned.

 

I know this is the saintsweb and in many cases a forum to moan . but surely somone of my fellow posters enjoyed their pies and beer

How did you find the service compared to last year. And those that were eating dodgy pies have you spoken to your enviromental health inspectors?

[Scummer]

Most items of food were sold out in the Chapel end, and there was a 20 minute queue at half time. Reminded me why I don't normally bother trying to get anything in the ground.

[John McGrath's Jockstrap]

The point is that there were no pies - period - even BEFORE the game !!!. Carrot cake goes down well with a pint of frothy Carlsberg.Not.

 

I wouldnt be suprised if NC had his staff auditing the service and standard of food that was being delivered to us the fans.

 

He did take notice of our concerns hence the reason for changes. I would not be suprised if he has not already been in touch with the

senior managers of the catering company concerned.

 

I know this is the saintsweb and in many cases a forum to moan . but surely somone of my fellow posters enjoyed their pies and beer

How did you find the service compared to last year. And those that were eating dodgy pies have you spoken to your enviromental health inspectors?

[LostBoys]

clearly you are lying.

 

Always tastes better out of a real glass rather than a plasic one - I did not say that Tetleys would be my first choice by the way - bring back the 1.5 pint bucket and change to Greene King IPA

[1976_Child]

Good point: Pint is now 3 quid, down from £3.20

 

Bad point: no pies

 

Utterly unexcusable point: service was painfully slow. It ain't rocket science, is it? Call up the ticket office and find out how many fans are to be expected in each area of the ground. Then check that number against similarly attended saturday games and look up how many lagers, bitters etc were sold before kick off. And then before the turnstiles open pour a big lot of pints in anticipation of the rush. And keep pouring so that there is a buffer of about 50 lagers. Use common sense and five minutes before the bar closes stop pouring. They will be sold.

 

And instead of just a regular lager tap, get a five-pint tap installed so that five pints can be poured at the same time.

 

And how about having self service beer machines like some other grounds do.

 

And get a pre-payment card sorted. We charge our card up at machines, ticket office or online so when we get to the bar we order the pints, the chaps hands a pre-poured beer to us, we swipe the card and bugger off. Shouldn't take more than ten seconds.

 

Seriously NC, you got to get the catering moving faster. It is just too slow, and that when the ground was only 22k full.

[Joey-deacons-left-nut]

The hot dogs were nice, better than last year.

[Spudders]

Didn't bother going down at half time last night so not sure how the service was for the cup game?

[SaintRichmond]

Shame they still employ complete spastics to serve at the beer bars. Who's bright idea was it to not pour the pints until they were paid for? What else was everyone queuing up for? The beer tastes like **** anyway, makes no difference if they mass pour them and leave them behind the counter ready for everyone.

 

Took 20 minutes to queue up for a pint of severely watered down carlsberg.

 

Cortese's cunning plan is working

 

I, and a lot of others will have an extra pint elsewhere BEFOR coming into the ground

 

Yet another "Business winner" from Nicola

[SaintRichmond]

Good point: Pint is now 3 quid, down from £3.20

 

Bad point: no pies

 

Utterly unexcusable point: service was painfully slow. It ain't rocket science, is it? Call up the ticket office and find out how many fans are to be expected in each area of the ground. Then check that number against similarly attended saturday games and look up how many lagers, bitters etc were sold before kick off. And then before the turnstiles open pour a big lot of pints in anticipation of the rush. And keep pouring so that there is a buffer of about 50 lagers. Use common sense and five minutes before the bar closes stop pouring. They will be sold.

 

And instead of just a regular lager tap, get a five-pint tap installed so that five pints can be poured at the same time.

 

And how about having self service beer machines like some other grounds do.

 

And get a pre-payment card sorted. We charge our card up at machines, ticket office or online so when we get to the bar we order the pints, the chaps hands a pre-poured beer to us, we swipe the card and bugger off. Shouldn't take more than ten seconds.

 

Seriously NC, you got to get the catering moving faster. It is just too slow, and that when the ground was only 22k full.

 

ONLY if they employ "Staff" who can cope with more than two people per hour

[latter day saint]

Didn't bother going down at half time last night so not sure how the service was for the cup game?

they only had the 1 bar/food counter in the Northam last night so knew it would be busy at halftime.went down anyway & the que was snaking round to the stairs already. luckily someone with a brain decided to open up the bottle bar by the stairs & got served straight away.they should do this for every game as a lot of people walk off normaly as they can't be arsed to que up.

[stevegrant]

Didn't bother going down at half time last night so not sure how the service was for the cup game?

Didn't go down at half-time either, but wanted a pre-match pie and they didn't have any

[Sour Mash]

Went downstairs in the Northam minute or two before the end of the first half to find an already massive queue for beer/cider, which hardly moved for the whole course of the half-time. We challenged the lad serving as to why only one of them was serving, while the others stood around idly at the food points and his response was he was the only one over 18 and able to serve alcohol.

 

Its a joke. While Cortese and co are trying to rinse every penny out of supporters in certain areas, there are plenty of us mugs more than happy to hand over our hard earned for beers and pies in the ground and are unable to do so due to the sheer inefficiency and bad management of something that really should be fairly basic.

[Lets B Avenue]

My biggest catering related disappointment was at St Andrews (Birmingham City, not the golf course!!) back in the early 80's.

 

The footballing fare was a gastronomic treat ... a 3-0 win with a line up that included Keegan, Channon, Moran, Charlie George, Ivan Golac, Chris Nicholl, Stevie Williams and Nick Holmes.

 

It was a bitterly cold January afternoon and the thought of a nice hot half time drink was very appealing. At the time Jasper Carrott was very big and his football story about a trip to Old trafford with Brum is a classic ... so imagine my surprise when we got to the front of the queue and asked for a cup of Bovril, only to find they didn't serve it ... and in my best Brummie accent I said "they ain't got no cowin' bovrill" ... as if the poor serving girl hadn't heard that line a million times already. It helps if you've seen the sketch of course!! A luke warm tasteless cup of tea was hardly a worthy replacement.

 

Eric. I'm pleased to report that last night, the Bovril was available and more than satisfactory. :thumbup:

[Handyman]

Why do people feel the need to eat at a football match?

 

I've never, ever eaten at any football match I've ever been to - always worry about what's in them there pies and burgers.

 

Exactly. If you must eat, why not take your own?

[The9]

I had a Beef Madras Pasty last night. It wasn't as good as the Balti Pie.

 

Not much beef, it wasn't particularly spicy - never mind Madras, but it was definitely pasty shaped. 1/3 ain't bad. It was definitely food, and not offensive enough to put me off buying it ever again.

 

FWIW I have been visiting the loo quite a lot today.

[Eastcowzer]

The burgers were the same (pretty poor).

 

Pretty poor !. I'd say they were almost anaemic, and the buns seem to have by-passed the oven too.

Menu: Next home game I'll bring my binoculars. Maybe able to read it then

Certainly no improvement so far, in fact god-awful.

[latter day saint]

Exactly. If you must eat, why not take your own?

i will next time,along with my thermos & blanket.