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Stadium Tech Report

December 21st, 2024

Mashgin

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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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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 adds five checkout-free stores at MLB stadiums

As expected, checkout-free technology supplier Zippin has added five stadium concession stands to its market-leading total, with new deployments at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Progressive Field in Cleveland and Rogers Centre in Toronto. Fans at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore will have the easiest opportunity to try a Zippin checkout-free location, with two "Zippin Lane"...

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Editorial

What stadium tech might proliferate in 2023?

Looking back at 2022, it's easy to proclaim it as a banner year for stadium technology. Innovation on multiple fronts arrived, not just as ideas but actual products and services that brought immediate improvement to stadium business areas like concessions, ticketing, security and infrastructure. Will 2023 bring more acceleration of new ideas and technology deployments as venues continue to try...

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Wrigley Field adds new technology for security, concessions

The National League's oldest ballpark, the Chicago Cubs' Wrigley Field, has shown the ability to teach other venues about some new technology tricks, as witnessed by Stadium Tech Report in an early June visit. Though the outfield-wall ivy and other trappings never let you forget about Wrigley's heritage, new technologies that include walk-through security screening and optical-scanning concessions checkout terminals...

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Faster Food: Denver Broncos, Aramark team up on aggressive new-technology concessions deployments

Even before they traded for star quarterback Russell Wilson this offseason, the Denver Broncos have been taking care of their fans at Empower Field at Mile High, especially when it comes to concessions operations. By addressing years-old concessions problems with new technologies and new ideas of how to get food and drink into fans' hands (and stomachs) much faster, the...

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