The Oakland A's have designated a few sections of the upper deck at the Coliseum(previously tarped off last year) as "All You Can Eat Seating". For $35, you get a game ticket and you can consume. It's almost like they're encouraging gluttony.
At least encouraging low end gluttony. The free offer only applies to the standardized items at the "all you can seat" sections. You don't get free garlic fries or Everett & Jones spare ribs or chile verde burritos from the concessions in the lower sections that serve better (i.e. edible) food. And "all you can eat" doesn't mean "all you can drink" (besides soft drinks) which is something that would make it a lot more appealing to some people. You can recoup your $35 pretty easy with a few $7.50 Gordon Biersch Marzens.
As the Chronicle points out, this would mainly appeal to people with kids, especially giving a birthday party for a bunch of kids. All the hot dogs, nachos, peanuts, popcorn, or ice cream you can eat, plus there's a baseball game too. What more could an 8-12 year old kid want? The price goes down to $30 for groups of 25 or more, so you can feed and entertain a couple of dozen kids for just over $700. What a deal? I think I'll give the "all you can eat" section a pass though.
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I can't even process the idea of spending $700 on a birthday party, or entertaining "a couple dozen kids". And children given an exciting situation and a bunch of friends won't take the time to eat their money's worth. But maybe this thing will take off anyway. What do I care; I won't be there.
I think it will work for summer schools and daycare programs where you send you kid somewhere with a check for $30 so (s)he can go to the ballgame and eat lots of junk food
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