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Next up in outrageous prices: $90 a pizza at Cowboys Stadium

Dubs : 7/30/2009 9:18 pm
And you thought the food at Yankee Stadium was overpriced.

The article has some nice points on the new stadium, but this section takes the cake (though not literally, since that'd be a few Benjamins):

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Tuesday’s tour took our group into a suite that can be leased for $800,000 a year — which doesn’t include the price of game or event tickets but does offer a large pizza for $90 (no toppings), 12-packs of domestic beer for $66 apiece and a four-pack of Red Bull for $22, among other ridiculously priced items.


Got make back that $1.2 billion somehow. Maybe this is par for the course (or at least within range) for luxury suites? I don't know, but I seriously doubt it.

Who is up for a $30 hot dog?
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Dubs, worse still would be actually  
mrvax : 7/30/2009 9:26 pm : link
eating a pizza made in or around Texas. And at $90, I believe many would feel obligated to try and consume it.

I guess financial companies the government bailed out will be the only ones who could afford such crazy prices.
I don't care if the pizza is seasoned with dingleberries  
Dubs : 7/30/2009 9:30 pm : link
If you drop 90 bucks on it, you damn well better eat it. There are children starving in Alabama.
Pizza in the suite at Giants stadium  
NYSPORTS98 : 7/30/2009 9:31 pm : link
was $65 last season.
NY  
Dubs : 7/30/2009 9:34 pm : link
That's why I asked if this was normal, but just a bit inflated. I've never been in a luxury suite but I could imagine that the already-high food prices for the plebeians in the stands would be knocked up a bit in the box.

But still...$90 is nearly a 50% increase from $65.
Actually...  
manh george : 7/30/2009 9:40 pm : link
Texas pizza at $90 is about a 150% increase. Then again, the mozzarella cheese is flown in from Idaho, and that costs extra.
Dubs  
NYSPORTS98 : 7/30/2009 9:41 pm : link
I wouldn't be shocked if the New Giants Stadium charges more.

The pricing is crazy. I remember fried chicken was $85 and chicken fingers was like $75. Of course, these suite are paid by corporations. Funny though, the tower to the suites is different from the general fans so nobody can exit, go to a regular priced concession stand and bring the food in.

Also, if it makes anybody feel any better. Watching the game in the suite sucks. With a plexiglass in front on you it feels like you are watching the game on a big screen TV. The fans cheering is little muffled too.
that's par for the course  
lalalalala : 7/30/2009 9:43 pm : link

a 24-pack of water at the Prudential Center, I think was around $100.

I thought Idaho had potatoes?  
Dubs : 7/30/2009 9:43 pm : link
Yeah, I can't do math.
Aren't most of the suites  
MookGiants : 7/30/2009 9:43 pm : link
in Giants stadium on the mezzanine level? I've seen people walk into them from the regular gate entrance and be able to get food
So, don't buy a ticket  
Blackbeard : 7/30/2009 10:00 pm : link
for a luxury box.
Sit in the stands with the real football fans and bring your lunch from home.
not a bad deal...  
Capt. Don : 7/30/2009 10:10 pm : link
you guys have clearly not purchased a drink at the strip clubs in Montreal.
But in fairness  
Jim in Fairfax : 7/30/2009 10:11 pm : link
That pizza is TEXAS sized.
Mook  
NYSPORTS98 : 7/30/2009 10:11 pm : link
The luxury suites are in that tower above the stadium. The big white addition with all the windows. You're way up there and use both a seperate enterence and elevator. The hallways are like an office building. No way you get down to the general public unless you take the elevator down, walk for about 200 yards and find an escalator, then come back.

It's not like those suites in the mezzanine.
The suites  
MookGiants : 7/30/2009 10:13 pm : link
in the mezzanine seem like they kick ass. They have windows that you can open and I've seen Kate Mara a few times in the one suite in the mezz
actually  
NYSPORTS98 : 7/30/2009 10:15 pm : link
the mezzanine suites are probably better for watching the game. In the luxury suites you look to either your left or right and you are level with the upper deck scoreboard. You're way up there.

chicken fingers  
Dylan fan : 7/30/2009 10:16 pm : link
They should be real expensive considering all the biological engineering that goes into getting chickens to have fingers.
Living in Rochester,  
Ben from WNY : 7/30/2009 10:18 pm : link
I think there are times I could probably convince myself to pay $65 for a NY pie.
No Blackbeard  
mrvax : 7/30/2009 10:19 pm : link
Get your lazy butt out of the luxury box, buy your food in the regular stands and bring it back into the box.

:>)
Mook  
Bill Barilko : 7/30/2009 10:19 pm : link
I sat in mezz a few times. The thing that struck me - the people inside weren't watching the game or the TV.

How times have changed. In the 80s, we took gallon water coolers of margaritas in to Texas Stadium.
Ben  
Dubs : 7/30/2009 10:22 pm : link
I hear you. The best pizza place by campus is a Dominos. Yes, you read that right. Needless to say, we rarely eat pizza.
the pizza  
MookGiants : 7/30/2009 10:24 pm : link
in Califronia blows some serious balls
Ben  
CRinCA : 7/30/2009 10:25 pm : link
I hear you. Right now, I'd gladly pay that for one of the pizzas I grew up eating in NY/NJ.

Northern CA has alot going for it, but in general, pizza ain't one of 'em.
LOL Mook  
CRinCA : 7/30/2009 10:26 pm : link
Or what you said!
CR  
Dubs : 7/30/2009 10:28 pm : link
Yup. "Campus" is in Northern California.

If you look hard enough, you can even find a decent bagel. But I have yet to come across pizza that I actually enjoy. So I've stopped looking. It makes the coming home experience that much better. Had Patsy's the other night. Yum.
Dubs (and Ben and Mook)  
CRinCA : 7/30/2009 10:38 pm : link
Amici's gets alot of attention out here as being "East-Coast Style", but I don't get it at all. I think it's freaking cardboard with minimal toppings at best.

http://www.amicis.com/?gclid=CP7qwpnz_psCFRFMagodF13E-A

I actually prefer a joint in San Rafael called Mulberry St. Pizza of all things (no relationship/connection whatsoever to NY). They make a decent pie, use whole-milk mozzarella, and have a few very good specialty-type pizzas.

http://www.mulberry-street-pizzeria.com/
This reminds me of a club in NYC my nephew managed  
TJ : 7/30/2009 10:47 pm : link
The club sold bottles of liquor with mixers in their VIP section. The price for a bottle of grey goose? $500. And a party typically left half full bottles behind when they left. Champagne was more than that and obviously disappeared quicker. He and my son (who worked there for awhile) told me a tab of $15k for someone who brought in a group of people was not unusual. And that didn't include any cocaine.
cr,  
CTsteve : 7/30/2009 10:56 pm : link
a16 in the marina district (san francisco) is pretty good. number one son had work in the fidi last week and said the pies at tony's (new place in north beach) were pretty good. a16 and tony's have wood-fired ovens.

pizzaiolo in oakland is pretty good, too. my boy tony mangieri from una pizza napoletana has closed shop in manhattan and says he's moving to california. keep an eye out for this guy.
CR  
Dubs : 7/30/2009 11:00 pm : link
I've tried Amici's. Agree, nothing special.

I've tried basically all the places in Palo Alto, except some which were just too revolting to begin with. I've resigned myself to Dominos delivery when absolutely necessary (5-5-5 deal is hard to beat when you need to feed a lot of people) and California Pizza Kitchen when going out.

Again, I just avoid pizza since it's rarely any good.
dubs,  
CTsteve : 7/30/2009 11:04 pm : link
life is too short for crap food. try a pie or two in sf or oakland.
hell, even zuni on market  
CTsteve : 7/30/2009 11:07 pm : link
makes a decent wood-fired pie.
Steve  
CRinCA : 7/30/2009 11:07 pm : link
Yeah- I need to get back in the Italian groove out here. We've been doing alot of Chinese in SF of late given my youngest's (sp?) food preferences.

I know some locals may hate me for this, but I still cannot get over the difference between NY's "Little Italy" and SF's "North Beach".

Not that I like SF's "Chinese food" much better than NY's but it's all comparative.

That said, you won't hear me bitching when I'm snow-free and in 70 degrees in January.
cr,  
CTsteve : 7/30/2009 11:14 pm : link
lots of good food out there. sometimes you just have to dig a bit.
sunday brunch at yank sing  
CTsteve : 7/30/2009 11:18 pm : link
always works for us. something about dim sum that always puts a smile on my face. besides, the rincon center is drop-dead gorgeous.
Game is free on TV  
bois : 7/31/2009 12:22 am : link
And that pizza will run you about 15 bucks.
I wonder how much this popcorn cost  
Vin_R : 7/31/2009 12:25 am : link
In comparison  
sharkly : 7/31/2009 4:09 am : link
the NY Post did an article recently and the most expensive pizza in NYC was $26 a pie, in Brooklyn.
The reason they charge so much  
giants2000 : 7/31/2009 4:31 am : link
is that people pay the price. It seems outrageous, but doesn't it seem idiotic that a person is willing to pay that
price.
I believe that there may be some deal brewing in Congress  
idinkido : 7/31/2009 6:49 am : link
that will benefit the oil companies financially, and combine that to the natural gas they found in Texas, and we may find this will be one of the earliest states out of this recession.
I don't know....  
rptl530 : 7/31/2009 8:20 am : link
about $90 pizzas, but $66 twelve packs are about right. 144 fluid ounces of domestic beer at Giants stadium is, what, $67?
A $90 Pizza  
HopeJ : 7/31/2009 8:30 am : link
better be served on HIS chest.

AD anyone?  
odunde : 7/31/2009 9:43 am : link
"Oh sure, the guy in the $800,000 suite is going to pay $90 for a texas pizza. COME ON"
Straight Out of Brooklyn, the $5 Slice  
sharkly : 7/31/2009 2:22 pm : link
...On Avenue J in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, a small cup of coffee costs $1.39. An 18-stick package of gum is $1.49. And at Di Fara Pizza, the price of a plain cheese slice: $5. ...
Customers wait patiently at Di Fara’s.


oops  
sharkly : 7/31/2009 2:24 pm : link
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Dom's pizza is the best in the world  
glowrider : 7/31/2009 3:27 pm : link
The only excuse to go to Brooklyn...
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