Cheers! Beer and wine sales lead record day for LSU concessions
By Jake Rill
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When there are more than 100,000 people in attendance for a game between two of the top college football teams in the country, it’s going to be a good day for sales inside the stadium. And that was the case at this past Saturday’s Florida-LSU game at Tiger Stadium.
According to LSU senior associate athletic director Robert Munson, the school had a record night for concessions on Saturday, totaling $1.175 million in gross sales in general seating areas. That included 54,794 sales of beer and wine and 52,840 sales of water and soda.
Here’s the full breakdown from Munson:
#LSU had a record day in concessions at Tiger Stadium Saturday night with $1.175 million in gross sales in general seating areas only. Sales included:
? 54,794 beer/wine
? 52,840 water/soda
? 11,723 hot dogs
? 6,107 popcorns
? 5,997 burgers— Robert J. Munson (@RobertJMunson) October 17, 2019
Note: Gross sales number is from our Aramark partners and does NOT include premium areas (clubs/suites) which are serviced by another vendor.
Also, we sold 8,592 nachos. There is, inexplicably, no Twitter emoji for nachos.
— Robert J. Munson (@RobertJMunson) October 17, 2019
The sales likley kept coming because most people didn’t want to leave that game early. LSU tied it at 28 with 7 minutes, 12 seconds to go in the third quarter, and the Tigers scored another pair of unanswered touchdowns to pick up a huge SEC win over Florida.
While LSU won’t be home again this week, the No. 2 Tigers will look to continue their unbeaten start as they travel to play Mississippi State on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. ET on CBS.
Jake Rill contributes to news coverage for Saturday Down South. He has covered the SEC since 2016.
