food at gfc / compass / chippy

[mrpthegillsfan]

have to say one of the highlights so far this season is always the excellent £2 sausage and chips from the chippy on the corner just up the road from the co-op. the food that is now served inside the ground is appalling. my friend was still hungry after our visti to the chippie and so took the plunge with a plain burger when we got to the ground - we were practiclaly the first ones in the ground (medway stand) and were told they had run out of plain burgers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! unfortunately he has a severe allergy to dairy and cannot touch cheese so had an overpriced pie, water and kit kat instead. the pie was overcooked and fell to bits, the drinks coolers had obviously just been switched on as the water was warm and the kit kat, which also came from a cooler, was already soft. i was still peckish and had a burger and wished i hadn't - obviously fresh from the microwave, the bun was crispy in the centre, damp and soggy on the outside and the "meat" content was dry and tasted like it had been produced in the michelin factory. all in all nearly £10 and a total rip off, i don't mind paying as you would like to think all income can only benefit our club, but the quality on offer is one of the poorest I have found at any ground and the pricing one of the most expensive. surely if the food on offer was better and priced a little more sensibly they more people would use the outlets?

amazingly for anyone who has tried the club's matchday hospitality packages such as watch, wine and dine, the food served inside is excellent, really top notch and spot on. it is therefore mind boggling that they can get it so right indoors and so wrong in their outlets. why bother putting drinks and chocolate in coolers if they are just going to be obviously left switchedd off most of the time? could someone from compass not turn them on a few hours prior to the game?

interested to know what others think about the catering at gfc....

[johnknee]

First match of the season having not eaten since early morning I ask for a curry chicken and a meat/potato pie... Chav behind the counter was "Erm, oh, er I'm not sure how you tell which pie type is which, I'll go and ask"....

After 5 minutes, I just asked him to give me two random pies (luckily the right ones)...

Buying the food only indirectly benefits the club - Scally gets a flat fee I believe and then the Compass group takes the 'profits'.... Not buying stuff will only affect how much Compass are prepared to pay for the contract upon renewal.

To be honest, the food has been terrible for years. What season did we have Roman whatshisname the keeper on loan from Plymouth? We were in the 1st division at the time. Jepson must have been manager. The pies that season were magnificant - huge and filling... and then I think we went to Compass's cheap stuff. Before then, we had decent Pukka pies....

Still, I still remember avoiding the 'food' they sold at Luton - binking health hazard. Cambridge's in the late 90s was cardboard (and yes I did take the food out of the packet) and I recall being somewhat disappointed at the soggy burgers at Highbury....

[shepp]

Anyone remember the tikka pies that a certain Mr Spiller used to advertise in the programme?

The food at priestfield is shite to be quite frank, although the grub in the great hall at their new year's eve bash has been good in the past.

[ericbloodaxe]

Not only that, but the staff clearly are not being managed properly.
Both these aspects have a negative impression on the image of the football club and one of the executives should surely have the responsibility of checking the contract and threatening to pull it if change is not made. I would have thought that it would have been written in the contract that a negative impression could result in a breach of that contract.