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Originally Posted by Tom Line
I had meant to start a thread like this. As it was my first time there, I observed quite a few things that I wanted to mention.
6. The food rules around the venue. This is not a pro-football game where people paid $75 a ticket and can afford $4 for a hot dog and $3.25 for a small bottle of water. I know, FIRST probably didn't make this decision and there was probably little they could about it, but I still wanted to mention it. We ended having to leave the venue and walk to other locations (trailer, CNN food court, etc) to get food.
All in all, the complaints were minor and the event was excellent. The volunteers were friendly and helpful, and we enjoyed our time immensely and hope to earn our way back as soon as we can!
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Thanks for mentioning that these are minor complaints. As a FIRST event organizer here in San Antonio, Texas, I get this very same or similar input. However, I have no control or bargaining power to negotiate venue food prices. Those are very much written in stone by contractors with the venue where the venue gets a piece of the pie as part of that contract. In some venues the contracts are written such that one can bring in outside venders but then one has to pay the venue their contracted percentage... So this is always an issue a team must prepare for in advance. Tailgate if it is allowed, have staff who can do the lunch run, purchase the pre-event meal package ... not something FIRST can control as much as we all would like to be able to do so
