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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...Feature
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...Feature
Stadiums embracing self-serve beverage technology
The decades-old stadium and arena refrain of “beer, here!” from exuberant hawkers, a sound almost as ingrained with the in-person sports experience as the roar of the crowd itself, is increasingly being joined by a transformative wave of self-serve beverage technology. Mirroring a rising trend of consumer-directed and automated experiences in many other areas of commerce, such as checkout-free stores,...Editorial
Looking back at 10 years of covering stadium technology
We've come a long way, haven't we, from leaky coax to MatSing Lens antennas? As we start the 10th year of our quarterly Stadium Tech Report publications, permit me if you will a short look back to see where it all started and where we are now. The good news is, after a decade of writing about as many stadium...News