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Originally Posted by Bandwagon Surfer
To me the biggest factor in game experience is not the building, washrooms, transportation, team or anything like that.
It is the vendor contracts. When the vendors are single sourced and you can only get one brand of beer and one food concession, the experience sucks. The best arenas are the ones where they let all kinds local breweries and food vendors in. The variety of options and competition between them results in so much better food and drink.
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Although I understand what you are saying and agree to a large extent, the Arena's get massive dough from large companies like Labatt or Molson to have exclusivity in the building. The only reason we saw Banded Peak (a "local small brewery") enter into the dome is that they were purchased by Labatt, who has the exclusive beer rights to the building and Stampede Grounds and they wanted to jump on the "local, craft craze". Trust me, as someone in the beverage industry they pay a huge sum (along with Spirits deals and wine deals, and food vendor deals) so as much as we would love to see local flavour, beers and food - its highly unlikely with large corporate deals in place for exclusivity.