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Stadium Tech Report

December 23rd, 2024

concessions technology

Feature

Checkout-free concessions stands ready to multiply at stadiums

Once a curiosity deployed mainly in trial situations, the concessions technology known as "checkout free" or "just walk out" is ready for its prime-time moment in stadiums, with a host of new deployments already announced or coming soon to a venue near you. Leading suppliers of the technology are currently busy announcing new stadium stores, with more announcements expected before...

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Editorial

A personal request to all venue IT professionals: Please take our Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey, to help your peers!

In my 11 years of covering the stadium technology marketplace, one thing I found that makes it special is how willing all participants are to share operational information. Since stadiums don't really "compete" against each other like teams do, it makes sense. Nobody in Minnesota is going to lose if someone in Green Bay adopts a best stadium technology idea...

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Feature

Faster Food: Denver Broncos, Aramark team up on aggressive new-technology concessions deployments

Even before they traded for star quarterback Russell Wilson this offseason, the Denver Broncos have been taking care of their fans at Empower Field at Mile High, especially when it comes to concessions operations. By addressing years-old concessions problems with new technologies and new ideas of how to get food and drink into fans' hands (and stomachs) much faster, the...

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Editorial

Walk in, walk out: Get ready for more checkout-free concessions

Coming soon, to a venue near you: Checkout-free concession stands, where you walk in, take what you want and walk out, leaving the billing to the network. If your stadium doesn't have these types of stands yet, just wait. If investors have anything to say about it, companies providing the technology behind the most innovative thing to possibly ever happen...

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News

SpotOn raises $300 million, in part to acquire venue POS services provider Appetize

Consolidation in the back-end payments market continued Monday, with the announcement by restaurant/retail payments provider SpotOn that it had raised $300 million in funding, in part to allow the firm to purchase point-of-sale services provider Appetize, which has won big chunks of business in the stadium and events space recently. The big funding round was led by Silicon Valley VC...

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