[George A.]

This all depends on the venue you're at...at NJ which is held at a sports arena, the concessions are expensive, just as they are at all arenas...however there are other competitions, (NYC, which is in a state park, Annapolis, which is on Naval base, Palmetto which is in USC) where the food is cheaper.

If you go to the arena's concession stand it's gonna kill your wallet...but if you go to a college's cafeteria, or places around the venue then you can save money.

In a lot of the venue's there's a clause in their contract which says that if FIRST wants to use their venue, then they have to use their concession suppliers...kind of unfair, but FIRST doesn't have much of a choice considering, there aren't that many places that can hold the amount of people that they have...so we unfortunately get the short end of the stick.