Footy fans Robert Meiselbech, Ilona and Mark Embury are happy about the lower food prices at Etihad Stadium. Picture: Nicole Garmston
Source: News Limited
ETIHAD Stadium has dropped its prices for food and drinks before the start of the footy season, adding more pressure on Adelaide Oval to review its pricing structure.
A small beer at the Melbourne ground now costs $5 and a pie at a Sunday game has been slashed to $3, compared with $5 at Adelaide Oval.
Free popcorn and fairy floss will also be handed out to children in a bid to lure fans back to the footy at Etihad Stadium. A new children’s meal of cheese burger, hot chips, water bottle and gift will cost $8.
But the Adelaide Oval Stadium Management Authority has repeatedly refused to review food and drink prices before the start of the season because it says its prices are competitive.
An Advertiser analysis of 13 AFL venues found Adelaide Oval was the most expensive for a family buying hot chips, a meat pie, hot dog, chicken burger, a soft drink and water — which would cost $37.30.
The same meal would cost $34 at the SCG and $26.50 at Blundstone Arena in Hobart.
Subiaco Oval has also been criticised for its high prices in 2015, which include increasing the price of hot chips to $6 from $5.50 last season.
AFL chief Gillon McLachlan flanked by Monica Kocovski and Paul Bucci at Etihad Stadium. Picture: Nicole Garmston
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Choice spokesman Tom Godfrey said Adelaide Oval’s food and drink prices were unreasonably high. “No one likes getting shirtfronted by a greedy vendor,” he said.
He recommended fans take food to the Oval to save money.
The discounted food and drink deals at Etihad Stadium come after the MCG slashed its prices earlier this month.
AFL chief Gillon McLachlan said fans felt they had been “paying overs” for food and drinks. “We’ve listened and responded to what their concerns are,” he said.
But the only stadiums to significantly reduce their prices are in Melbourne.
Etihad Stadium chief Paul Sergeant said cutting food prices on Sundays was part of a strategy to get families to games.
“It’s about getting people back through and people coming back to the game,” he said.
The first AFL game at the Oval will be the round one clash between the Adelaide Crows and North Melbourne on Sunday week.
Colonel Light Gardens Primary students and young Adelaide fans Lachlan Watson, Courtney Willmott, Abi-Rose Willmott, Sam Zimmermann, and Jeremy Moss brace for Crows Week with Crows stickers. Picture: Tricia Watkinson.
Source: News Corp Australia
Etihad Stadium drops food, drinks prices, putting pressure on Adelaide Oval
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