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Fenway to get Speed's hot dogs
By adamg on Fri, 12/03/2010 - 8:29pm
Such is the goodness of Speed's hot dogs out of the truck in Newmarket Square that Liz Bomze mentions completely in passing that it's opening a permanent outlet in the under-reconstruction restaurant row on Peterborough Street in the Fenway.
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Does this mean the Newmarket
Does this mean the Newmarket truck will not continue?
Twice the Speed's goodness
Apparently the plan is to keep Newmarket open as well.
THIS....
is a good thing!
Hell yeah!~
Take THAT, Fenway Franks!
Was on the fence about getting back in...
On my group's season tix for 2011. But Theo et al, you had me at the word "Speed's".
Amen!
Hold on a sec
It's Fenway the neighborhood, not Fenway Park. Peterborough Street, to be exact.
Hopes dashed yet again!
Damn! Why not inside the Park? What is this demonic possession that Aramark and their salmonella-spouting minions hold over the local ball club?
Higher profits
Aramark and the Red Sox have actually actively been going in the opposite direction from what you want. They just kicked out the independently-run kettle corn guys who used to work under the RF bleachers. The kettle corn sold now is done by the Red Sox (and Aramark?) with their own equipment now.
Basically, they can either charge rent and a small amount per bag...or they can buy their own equipment and do it themselves and keep the entire profit per bag. They seem to believe keeping all the profit per bag is better for them in the long run.
Look in the mirror
If the Sox roster was comprised of low-priced AAAA guys and the total payroll was $50 million, then they could afford to keep things like outside vendors under the grandstands. But if they lost 90 games a year and never made the playoffs, the same people who want Fenway Park to be some simple homage to 1912 would be bitching about the losses. The Sox management needs to seek every last way to maximize income from that tiny little footprint of a park that we all profess to love.
Footprints and ticket sales and lyric little bandboxes
Entirely true. Which just illustrates how every time some cultural endeavor from sports to coffee shops to comic books to chicken farms becomes commercialized, corporatized and industrialized it goes to shit. The problem is that the bottom line is the money and the decision makers are the accountants. The more things stay local, "unprofessional" and dictated by the devotion of the person to the endeavor, regardless of how mundane or weird-ass, as opposed to pulling in more money each year, the better of it is. Granted the quality of the baseball may be less, the reach of the product is less and the efficiency of product delivery goes down, but there's got to be some reason people like to see baseball in a small and accessible park (with seats that could make Torquemada giggle).
harumph...(prostate swells and Depends crinkle as I cross my legs)..harumph.
HA!
They bought an English Premier League soccer team for $450+ Million.
Tell me how they could afford to do that with how tight you claim their bottom line to be again because the ballpark is small and the payroll is high...
They rake in profits hand over fist from TV and marketing deals. That's where most of their money comes from. They aren't making so much off of kettle corn that they HAD to get rid of what was likely the last independent vendor in the park in order to pay for a few batting practice baseballs each year.