AT&T Center food vendors with critical violations

[nbaman99]

Written by Jeff Garcia
Tuesday, 27 July 2010 12:01
According to a report from ESPN's Outside the Lines, a vendor inspection report was done among NBA teams and the AT&T Center, home of the San Antonio Spurs, scored among the worst in the NBA when it comes to food violations.

AT&T Center
San Antonio Spurs
Vendors with critical violations: 48%
Inspection report excerpt: Inspectors found 18 pounds of hot dogs that had expired more than 10 days prior.

Granted this is bad but it could be worse. The Denver Nuggets had violations for phorid flies, sometimes called coffin flies, in a bottle of cognac.

So the next time you are at a Spurs game, you want to rethink buying that hot dog.

http://projectspurs.com/2010-articles/july/atat-center-with-critical-food-violations.html

[nbaman99]

http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/22748484/23458642
link to the entire article.

[gospursgojas]

No wonder they're so expensive. Thats some aged weenies

[Ditty]

lol i was there last night for raw the only way I eat the hotdogs if they give those free hot dog vouchers for some of the games. The nachos at the fan fiesta are really good that the only other thing I eat there. Can' wait for the nba season

[4down]

I guess quality control among the vendors was a luxury tax casualty??? :lol

[ChumpDumper]

Who drinks cognac at a basketball game?

[8FOR!3]

Wonderful, I had a pizza there at the Silver Stars game about a week ago. Fuck me hard, this is karma for eating a pizza as an exercise and sports science major...

[easy7]

Those hotdogs are for the" dollar day hotdog" games.. Good thing the only thing I bought there are the 5 dollar water bottles which sell for 88 cents at Valero. :hat

[cantthinkofanything]

Who drinks cognac at a basketball game?

Coffin flies.

[DesignatedT]

well that should get cleaned up next season. thankfully.

[Juanobili]

But the Spurs burger is soo goooood

[admiralsnackbar]

Coffin flies.
:lol

[ohmwrecker]

Those coffin flies are extremely difficult to keep out of bar bottles. I've seen them get under snow cone cups and saran wrap. They like cognac, scotch and bourbon.

[Thompson]

Pretty much every sports stadium everywhere had food safety issues.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/post/Vendors-at-professional-sports-venues-are-dirtie?urn=top-258254

'Staples Center (Los Angeles) — One stand dumped 9.5 pounds of sushi after inspectors found that it had become too warm.

One could argue that if you're ordering sushi at a basketball game, you're playing with fire, but it’s reasonable for fans to expect that whatever food they're ordering at a game is safe and properly handled. '

[gospursgojas]

Sushi at at ball game? Jeez.

What happened to hot dogs, nachos, and pizza?

[Trainwreck2100]

Sushi at at ball game? Jeez.

What happened to hot dogs, nachos, and pizza?

douchebags happened

[ohmwrecker]

douchebags happened


Says the guy with the douche sig . . . sushi is good, but yeah, not at a ball game.

[Obstructed_View]

Hot dogs expire?

[cantthinkofanything]

Hot dogs expire?

I don't know about that. Michael Jackson was known to eat 2 year old wieners from time to time.

[cantthinkofanything]

I don't know about that. Michael Jackson was known to eat 2 year old wieners from time to time.


Yikes. That was supposed to say "12 year old wieners".

[ohmwrecker]

Yikes. That was supposed to say "12 year old wieners".

Well, that's much better.

[cantthinkofanything]

Well, that's much better.

I'm not trying to justify anything but a punchline. But it is a better from that standpoint.

[Obstructed_View]

Yikes. That was supposed to say "12 year old wieners".

So you don't have an "edit" button?

[cantthinkofanything]

So you don't have an "edit" button?

No, I don't. I can't start threads, edit posts, or perform other basic functions that Kori doesn't think I'm repsponsible enough to do.

[Sisk]

No, I don't. I can't start threads, edit posts, or perform other basic functions that Kori doesn't think I'm repsponsible enough to do.

:lmao

[cantthinkofanything]

:lmao

Well it's decidedly not funny to me. I mean if I want to put in my 2 cents on a topic, I have to wait around until someone else brings it up. Thank God someone mentioned the deal with the headbands today.

[Obstructed_View]

Well it's decidedly not funny to me. I mean if I want to put in my 2 cents on a topic, I have to wait around until someone else brings it up. Thank God someone mentioned the deal with the headbands today.

Yeah a Michael Jackson joke was really necessary. You're proving your worth with every post.

[cantthinkofanything]

Yeah a Michael Jackson joke was really necessary. You're proving your worth with every post.

Sorry. I was just killing time while I waiting for the headband conversation to develop.

[Fpoonsie]

:lol

I dunno. I'm typically not a fan of cantthinkofanything's ANYTHING, but the fly joke, the MJ joke, and his inability to do MUCH of "anything" had me rollin in this thread.

[ElNono]

Obviously, they found no bats at the AT&T Center... :hat

[rjv]

72% of the vendors at jerry world were cited. 8.00 for a hot dog that is not at the right temp. very nice.

[noles1983]

oddly enough, this story is making me crave a hot dog...mmmmmm

[Trill Clinton]

Glad I never paid for any food at the center...its not surprising though...I wonder if behind the kitchen door will do a segment on it.

[Ditty]

the hamburgers on the rich level look so good i cant eat during spurs games cuz i get too nervous

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Who eats freakin hotdogs anyway? Do you know what is in them?

I find it bitterly ironic that people are worried about food code violations but not the horrendously poor nutritional value of the food that is served (which contributes to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, etc), nor about the fact that it is all presented in "disposable" packaging with absolutely no thought to recycling. The world is fucking insane.

[MavDynasty]

Spurfans, at the AT&T Center, is the food there ridiculously expensive?

[gospursgojas]

Spurfans, at the AT&T Center, is the food there ridiculously expensive?

Yes

[Horry For 3!]

I've never ate there, only drank beer so I should be good.

[cantthinkofanything]

Who eats freakin hotdogs anyway? Do you know what is in them?

I find it bitterly ironic that people are worried about food code violations but not the horrendously poor nutritional value of the food that is served (which contributes to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, etc), nor about the fact that it is all presented in "disposable" packaging with absolutely no thought to recycling. The world is fucking insane.

Stupid. When someone goes to a game and gets a hot dog, it doesn't indicate much about their diet for the other 99.99% of the time. In fact, the majority of people that eat hot dogs as part of their regular diet probably don't go to many Spurs games.

"Bitterly Ironic"????? WTF.

[4>0rings]

As long as the beer is cold, fresh, and $15 it's cool.

[Kori Ellis]

I saw the ESPN report about this and all the stadiums. The hidden camera video at Tropicana Field was nasty - rotting meat, raw meat dripping on cooked meat that was being served, etc.

[lefty]

Written by Jeff Garcia
Tuesday, 27 July 2010 12:01
According to a report from ESPN's Outside the Lines, a vendor inspection report was done among NBA teams and the AT&T Center, home of the San Antonio Spurs, scored among the worst in the NBA when it comes to food violations.

AT&T Center
San Antonio Spurs
Vendors with critical violations: 48%
Inspection report excerpt: Inspectors found 18 pounds of hot dogs that had expired more than 10 days prior.

Granted this is bad but it could be worse. The Denver Nuggets had violations for phorid flies, sometimes called coffin flies, in a bottle of cognac.

So the next time you are at a Spurs game, you want to rethink buying that hot dog.

http://projectspurs.com/2010-articles/july/atat-center-with-critical-food-violations.html


No wonder Bonner and Jefferson couldnt take off last season



Now they have no excuse :hat

[baseline bum]

Can't be worse than Hemisfair Arena. They had this nasty-ass pizza there that would make me puke half the time I ate it when I was a kid. The burgers weren't any better, so I eventually learned to never eat anything at games.

[Blake]

I saw the ESPN report about this and all the stadiums. The hidden camera video at Tropicana Field was nasty - rotting meat, raw meat dripping on cooked meat that was being served, etc.

I wish I had seen this thread before we went to Fiesta Texas this past weekend.

It would explain some things about the burgers we got.

[gospursgojas]

I saw the ESPN report about this and all the stadiums. The hidden camera video at Tropicana Field was nasty - rotting meat, raw meat dripping on cooked meat that was being served, etc.

Saw it too Kori... the story the guy told about the guy cutting himself and bleeding into the soup, then just wanting to scoop the blood out was disgusting.

[E-RockWill]

I personally wouldn't eat or drink anything on the plaza or balconey levels. Get your beer from a guy that's walking around.

[The Gemini Method]

I saw the ESPN report about this and all the stadiums. The hidden camera video at Tropicana Field was nasty - rotting meat, raw meat dripping on cooked meat that was being served, etc.

I was sitting down to dinnner when they aired that segment and I almost immediately lost my appetite. I had to change the channel and watch something like Criminal Minds just to numb the disgusting feeling I had. I've never had a problem @ Staples with any questionable food, but I tend to stick with nachos and pizza there (It is one of the few places that I spoil myself and violate my caloric intake). However, I did get a moldy bun with a hot dog @ Chavez Ravine aka Dodger Stadium. It was most certainly a shock and grossed me out that I rarely buy anything worthwhile at Dodger Stadium.