Drinks and food. Cah go wrong
You're so right, and we want to get into this, but here's the rub:
Costs up to $500 to hire the concession stand AT OUR HOME GAME! Then we need 2-3 trustworthy people to man the concession who we may be lucky to get for $150 each. Then we need to buy stock. Hot food will need an electric heater of some kind. Anything perishable not sold will be lost. So, better to do just nuts and snacks?
Drinks will need at least 2 coolers plus $100 in ice.
So, best case scenario without hot food, we will spend over $1,000 (assuming we can get the actual stock donated)
Now, if there are 500 people at the game and no other concessions, I think we could make at least $5,000 profit.
But there usually are other concessions and often less than 500 people. But its still worth doing if we can find someone willing to manage the whole project.
Also, we looked at sub letting the concession to a hot food supplier, but the one time we tried that before, they took very little, we made no money, and they didn't want to come back!
I'm not being negative here, food and drink is where the money is, but it requires an element of investment which we can't afford at the moment. You gotta spend money to make money, but you need that money first!
The first requirement is to find a true volunteer to manage the concession....at least then we can start to generate more income.
