Should UL get rid of Sodexo?

[CAJUNSby90]

Sodexo gets a % of outside vendor sales....this is why some vendors have pulled out. they simply were not making enough to justify being in the venue. This is a sodexo contract issue, not a UL issue. Sodexo has a monopoly on venue concessions. if it were as easy as just let any restaurant into the venue to sell, it would happen, but its not that simple.

finally someone who gets it

[RaisingCajun08]

They are also in corporate America. The facility I work at is contracted through Sodexo. Dont know if they still do. What I do know is that some of the people I see in the staff list used to be at our facility and got run off for poor food quality and service. Sound familiar?

https://ullafayette.sodexomyway.com/.../meet-the-team

[CajunNation]

Sodexo gets a % of outside vendor sales....this is why some vendors have pulled out. they simply were not making enough to justify being in the venue. This is a sodexo contract issue, not a UL issue. Sodexo has a monopoly on venue concessions. if it were as easy as just let any restaurant into the venue to sell, it would happen, but its not that simple.

Tear up the contract.

Simple.

Do the same with the TV contract.

Our best interests are not being served by either of them.

[Cajun90]

Tear up the contract.

Simple.

Do the same with the TV contract.

Our best interests are not being served by either of them.

LOL!! Sodexo would love that. Their cost go to almost nothing and they still get paid. After all that is what a contract is for. And who replaces them? I mentioned it earlier but apparently there isn't really anyone out there willing to take on the athletic events separate from the rest of the University.

The TV contract is run through the SBC so we don't control that.

[CajunNation]

LOL!! Sodexo would love that. Their cost go to almost nothing and they still get paid. After all that is what a contract is for. And who replaces them? I mentioned it earlier but apparently there isn't really anyone out there willing to take on the athletic events separate from the rest of the University.

The TV contract is run through the SBC so we don't control that.

The point is, don't renew the Damn contracts.

[CAJUNSby90]

The point is, don't renew the Damn contracts.

And do what instead?

[CajunNation]

And do what instead?

I don't care. Anything is better than what we have now.

If we can't pay people to hand out water bottles and Natty Lights we're in deep shat. Didn't we use volunteers to do that years ago?

We need to think outside the box here. Let people bring their own food and drink into the venues. Let the local Food Trucks/Restaurants have free reign in the venues.

There must be a way, in the food and drink capital of the world, to make sure people have a good time at our events and don't die because we ran out of water and don't have to take out a loan for a large popcorn and 2 pops.

[CAJUNSby90]

I don't care. Anything is better than what we have now.

If we can't pay people to hand out water bottles and Natty Lights we're in deep shat. Didn't we use volunteers to do that years ago?

We need to think outside the box here. Let people bring their own food and drink into the venues. Let the local Food Trucks/Restaurants have free reign in the venues.

There must be a way, in the food and drink capital of the world, to make sure people have a good time at our events and don't die because we ran out of water and don't have to take out a loan for a large popcorn and 2 pops.

Let people bring in their own food?? Thats an horrendous idea. You cant even do that a Rayne High football game.

[Turbine]

Let people bring in their own food?? Thats an horrendous idea. You cant even do that a Rayne High football game.

I know of corporate seminars of over 3000 that brown bag it.

Not that it would be any fun.

[CAJUNSby90]

I know of corporate semenars of over 3000 that brown bag it.

Not that it would be any fun.

well good thing it's not a corporate "seminar"

[Turbine]

well good thing it's not a corporate "seminar"

Wow your quick

I went to fix it and you already dropped the humor.

[jric116]

Let people bring in their own food?? Thats an horrendous idea. You cant even do that a Rayne High football game.

Astros allow it so there are ways to allow it. Might just have to be creative with the contract