(02-05-2015 09:36 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  I do wish we had a better bar to supplement the offerings of Prince's in the Roost.

I would love to see a Saint Arnold's or Buffalo Bayou booth, both Rice grad breweries, where they were serving a few of their beers on tap.

I don't think you're going to get any MAJOR ( National ... like HOOTERS ) vendor to come in and set up for six, three to four hour openings per year. Princes, Chick-filet and Papa John's schlep everything in and out on gameday. If Rice builds out a facility like a really nice Roost they can probably get the current vendors to continue the one-day thing as done at The Reck.

I'd be willing to bet the other stadia / fieldhouses with a major foodservice provider are open on many more occasions than just the college home game schedule. Prior to the Tudor rebuild, a local provider was in negotiation to put a bistro where the Traubner suite is located with the proviso they could be open as a restaurant during non-game times. Don't know how that negotiation went, but I do know the lack of service elevator, cold storage, plumbing etc were major negatives that cause the vendor to think twice about a permanent presence.

We'd be better served by creating a "food park" for the better food trucks on gameday.