If the club had a mind to, they could rebrand it before tomorrow night's game and still make a minimum of ten times the profit they would have made from six punters on Saturday. Pathetically easy: just move the Harveys thing from outdoors to indoors, with or without the live music. The provision...
Yup, it's just so predictably f*cking DUMB. Club would make more money opening up the Seven Stars up to anybody who JUST wanted tea and coffee. Are these REALLY the kind of decision-makers we want in charge of our club? Sake! :facepalm:
Because it would introduce a major element of multi-choice fannying around that would slow things down to the level of the rest of the stadium? In the hypothetical Ale House which I envisage, you'd hand over two tokens and get a pint of ale in return which would take all of thirty seconds. Next!
Seems to me there's (at least) a couple of money-spinning options:
1. Ale House - equivalent of the outside Harveys bar, but run along the lines of a beer festival. You buy beer tokens well away from the bar, one token equals one half pint (or one soft drink). No hot beverages, no pies, no...
If the 7 Stars Bar this season was genuinely supposed to be a revenue generator, then it does make you wonder a bit about the business acumen of the club generally. Maybe they'd do better to focus more on the probably 90% of 'customers' who are denied the opportunity to spend money on food and...