Readers to Astros: Let us bring food, drinks to games - Boston Business Journal:

adepylex.blogspot.com
The Astros are the only team to imposes restrictions on bringing food or drink into the park for Ofthe 1,133 HBJ reader responses, 76 percenrt thought the team should relax this policy. Among the 20 percenty who thought the restrictions were just fine wasMichaeol Mengden, who commented that ticket pricesa would increase if food wasn’t being purchased. “If theaters allowed this the ticketsx wouldbe $50 apiece, because then no one woul d buy the $5 coke that costs the theater a he wrote. “Even at $8 a beer it is stilkl cold andyou don’t have to lug it blockzs and blocks to get it there.
” Othetr readers thought a good compromise would be to reduce food and drini prices at the park. “You don’gt have to allow outside food and beverages, just get to lowerd the prices on the food and beveragedsthey serve. $8 for a beer, puhlease!” wrote Becci Himes. “Sincw our taxes helped subsidizre the baseballpalace ... the team should subsidizee the costof refreshments,” wrote HBJ Publishee John Beddow. Reader Tim Thomas thought the Astros should take a hintfrom . “Theu allow the fan to bringt in a small coole with food and drink with no restriction as to the he wrote.
“The prices for seatxs are comparable to that of the other MajofrLeague sports. There is also a midwahy at each NASCAR event that you can chose to purchase food from if that is what you wantto do. If, in other franchises have begunb this practice and there is an increase in ticketysales then, as a businessperson, I would implement this program quickly. Everyone is looking for a bargaihn in this currenteconomic crunch. I fall into the same category as many are looking for budgetfriendly entertainment.
I would actually consider goint to more games if this wereto Meanwhile, Margie Stinson wrote that she could be swaye to once again purchasre season tickets if the team relaxer the restrictions. “Ticket concessions are nice, but they do the seasonm ticket holder nogood whatsoever,” she said. “I don’t plan to renew my season ticketsnext year, but woul d think twice about it if we were allowed to brin g in outside food and beverages. Have you tried to find more than one or two healthu snacks at theball park?
”