Limited food options at the Olympic venues
Everyone it seems, is impressed with the new Chinese stadiums, many saying the “best ever”. The underwater shots from the Water Cube looking up to the sky are incredible. One complaint though that most people have though is the limited food options at the venues.
I noticed it when I started going to some of test events last year. The first time I went, I took fruit, bread and drinks. but gradually they became more stricter, until I couldn’t take anything in. Which I understood from a security perspective, but the fact that I couldn’t even take a Subway sandwich in, really irked me.
My lunch would consist of a packet of chips and a Coke - not to healthy or filling. I thought at the time they would do something by the time the Olympics came around - apparently not. One thing though, they have kept prices cheap and you can even buy beers for 5RMB (less than a dollar).
In Australia and I am sure in other western countries, a huge percentage of the venue’s revenue comes from food and drink sales. Prices are expensive, but at least they have a range of snack foods.
This was our third Olympics (Atlanta and Sydney) and the food in Beijing was horrible and to make matters worse, they would run out of the horrible food. On top of that, the primary sponsor is McDonalds which was not offered in any of the venues and only in one spot in the Olympic village which we could never get to despite premium tickets. Worse Olympics relative to country and fan support bar none. Pollution, no food at venues, prime seats left empty in venues, security issues blown way out of proportion…the list goes on and on.
We at at McDonald’s yesterday. Just fries and McNuggets. There is beer in the venues too. I’m not drinking, but I’ve seen it.
These folks are not interested in making money on food. That has to be a low priority.
We carried in some P-B-and-J sandwiches the other day and didn’t need to pitch them at the security gate. That was nice.
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