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Outfield food question: Crawfish Edition
Posted on 4/4/13 at 12:14 pm
Posted on 4/4/13 at 12:14 pm
My buddy and I are currently working through a feasibility study to figure out if there's money in us doing crawfish at every home series.
Question I have is about demand. I know when I was in school 93-99, Forresters and a few other bars would do Friday boils and I remember them always being packed out. Is Oxford still in love with boiled crawfish?
If me and my buddy served crawfish at home series weekends, how much interest do you think it would generate? Would it be one of those things where we'd sell alot the first couple trips and then everyone would get burnt out and go back to their usual stuff or do you think we could do well for the entire season? Also, we have real jobs so Fridays would be out. We'd only be able to serve on Sat and Sun.
Just trying to gauge interest before we roll a trailer and 1,000 lbs of crawfish up to Oxford and lose our asses...
And yeah, my crawfish are fricking ridiculous. Don't worry about that.
Question I have is about demand. I know when I was in school 93-99, Forresters and a few other bars would do Friday boils and I remember them always being packed out. Is Oxford still in love with boiled crawfish?
If me and my buddy served crawfish at home series weekends, how much interest do you think it would generate? Would it be one of those things where we'd sell alot the first couple trips and then everyone would get burnt out and go back to their usual stuff or do you think we could do well for the entire season? Also, we have real jobs so Fridays would be out. We'd only be able to serve on Sat and Sun.
Just trying to gauge interest before we roll a trailer and 1,000 lbs of crawfish up to Oxford and lose our asses...
And yeah, my crawfish are fricking ridiculous. Don't worry about that.
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Posted on 4/4/13 at 12:16 pm to Fipitan
You would make an absolute killing.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 12:22 pm to Fipitan
I would eat it for sure. How much would you be selling a pound for?
Posted on 4/4/13 at 12:30 pm to WithaRebelYell
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How much would you be selling a pound for?
We're looking at selling plates of 2 lbs of crawfish for anywhere from $8-10, depending on price of live crawfish and fuel. We are looking into using a card swiper on a smart phone for CC's, as well as taking cash, obviously.
No plans for sides (pots, corn, etc) at this time because that shite is tedious and impossible to keep up with when boiling 200lbs at a time. Corn only needs to boil for a couple minutes or it's too spicy to eat and potatoes, garlic, artichokes, etc have to boil forever, requiring transfer from pot to pot to make sure they are cooked. Pain in the arse, so that shite is out, for now.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 12:37 pm to OBReb6
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You would make an absolute killing.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 12:39 pm to Fipitan
That's cheap compared to what it has been around here lately. It's usually around $6 per pound.
You would do extremely well though I promise you. A lot of people skip games on Saturdays just so they can get crawfish at funkys.
I feel like there had to be some sort of red tape you would have to get around though. There's several crawfish stands around town and there has to be some kind of reason they haven't set up at the baseball games. I'm sure the university prevents them from doing it to keep them from competing with concession sales.
You would do extremely well though I promise you. A lot of people skip games on Saturdays just so they can get crawfish at funkys.
I feel like there had to be some sort of red tape you would have to get around though. There's several crawfish stands around town and there has to be some kind of reason they haven't set up at the baseball games. I'm sure the university prevents them from doing it to keep them from competing with concession sales.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 12:43 pm to Fipitan
The athletic department will require you to split the profit 50/50 or something crazy. Some of my friends thought about this last season and proposed it, AD was all for it, but the margins just weren't there. It wasn't worth their time.
Hopefully they lower their take or something because I would be all for it. Also whenever they're ready to do flex dollars at games for students is the moment they will start making a killing as well.
Hopefully they lower their take or something because I would be all for it. Also whenever they're ready to do flex dollars at games for students is the moment they will start making a killing as well.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 12:48 pm to OBReb6
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That's cheap compared to what it has been around here lately. It's usually around $6 per pound.
Interdasting.
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I feel like there had to be some sort of red tape you would have to get around though.
Yeah, we're not going to make a single move without getting The Bjork Dept on board fully. If we decide to move forward, talking with facilities mgmt and the Ath Dept is a given.
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I'm sure the university prevents them from doing it to keep them from competing with concession sales.
Yeah, I don't want to take money out of OUS because people are eating crawfish instead of hot dogs, popcorn and nachos. Honestly, this may be where the idea dies because you're right. Crawfish at baseball games seems like a stupid easy, no brainer idea. If someone in Oxford hasn't already done this, there's a reason and competing with concessions is probably it.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 12:54 pm to Fipitan
I remember they had a crawfish stand at the Virginia super regional and it had a huge line. That's the only time I've ever seen one out there.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 12:55 pm to RebelExpress38
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The athletic department will require you to split the profit 50/50 or something crazy. Some of my friends thought about this last season and proposed it, AD was all for it, but the margins just weren't there. It wasn't worth their time.
Honestly, I'd split 50/50 with a Ross Bjork run Ath Dept in a heartbeat. As long as we had enough money to pay our expenses (fuel, crawfish, hotel, beer, groceries, boiling rig) and a few bucks for gettin dranked after the games, I'd give the rest to OM with a shite eating grin on my face.
Free OM baseball, boilin crawfish, makin a few bucks and helping OM? fricking sold.
Posted on 4/4/13 at 12:57 pm to Fipitan
Now don't you go raising your prices just because I told you what they're going for up here.
Posted on 4/5/13 at 9:24 am to OBReb6
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Now don't you go raising your prices just because I told you what they're going for up here.
$12 per 2lb plate...
OBReb6 eats free.
Posted on 4/5/13 at 9:46 am to Fipitan
That sounds lovely, but in all seriousness I usually eat at least 5 lbs at a time by myself, so I'll order 5 lbs and hand you a 20 with OBReb6 written on it and we'll be good.
Posted on 4/5/13 at 10:02 am to Fipitan
When I used to sit in right field, I always thought a pronto pup stand would kill it. Too big of a hassle to go get food from the concession stand. We probably ordered more papa johns than concession stand food.
Posted on 4/5/13 at 11:28 am to OBReb6
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You would make an absolute killing.
Maybe in Mississippi. Those little creatures y'all have in North Mississippi are ants compared to the ones down here.
Posted on 4/5/13 at 11:29 am to OBReb6
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It's usually around $6 per pound.
It's like $4 in BR. And our crawfish are as big and delicious as they come.
Posted on 4/6/13 at 7:31 pm to Fipitan
are you from Louisiana?
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