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Getting their hands on touchless for concessions
PACKAGE PLUS: At Hard Rock Stadium, Centerplate has shifted to ready-made items packaged to go in suites. (Courtesy Centerplate) “Touchless” is a familiar word in venues’ plans to make patrons more comfortable as they return to shows and games. Often it centers on entrances and restrooms, but it extends to food service as well. Limiting the touches on fans’ food is a key part of changes at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla., said Kevin Mitchell, vice president and general manager for Centerplate. Reduced crowds are allowed for football games. When the University of Miami played its opener there Sept. 10, the stadium’s first game since the Super Bowl in February, food packaging was among the biggest changes for Centerplate, and they’ll be in place when the Miami Dolphins play their first home game of the season Sept 20. At concessions stands, open containers have been replaced by boxes… Continue Reading Getting their hands on touchless for concessions
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Dance Recital Leaves Them Cheering
A crowd of more than 700 attended the Topeka PAC’s first event since mid-March. (Courtesy Topeka Performing Arts Center) Topeka Performing Arts Center welcomes back audience When students at the Radiant Dance Studio took the stage at the Topeka Performing Arts Center on July 2, it was an occasion worthy of a victory dance. The gathering in Kansas’ capital was among the few ticketed live events that have taken place in an indoor venue since the arrival of COVID-19 shut down arenas, theaters and clubs around the world. Larry Gawronski, the PAC’s executive director, stood before the audience full of dancers’ families and friends, “and I said, ‘You will be happy to know that you are our first live audience since March 12, so give yourselves a hand, because live entertainment is back,’ and they were just like, “Woo-hoo!” The dance recital, postponed from the spring, sold 765 tickets and… Continue Reading Dance Recital Leaves Them Cheering
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Las Vegas Theaters Wait in the Wings
The Professional Bull Riders’ Monster Energy Team Challenge set up camp at South Point Hotel & Casino in June. (Courtesy Bull Stock Media) With state ban on large gatherings in place, venues prepare (and one goes fanless) The lights came back on at some Las Vegas resorts June 4 after the COVID-19 shutdown, but so far the city’s large live performance venues remain dark. That includes theaters that have become homes to superstar residencies and in some cases are connected to resort hotels and casinos already up and running. No date has been announced for those rooms to resume entertaining Vegas visitors. A recent rise in positive cases prompted Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak to announce June 24 that the state would remain in Phase 2 of its reopening, which limits gatherings to 50 people, but some venues are well into planning for their return. Caesars Entertainment, which runs two destination… Continue Reading Las Vegas Theaters Wait in the Wings
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PBR Ready to Put the Boot to Empty Arenas
THE BUCK STARTS HERE: A crowd enjoys a Professional Bull Riders event at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, S.D., in 2018. (Getty Images) South Dakota’s Denny Sanford Premier Center prepares to welcome fans back for July 10-12 team competition After entertaining fans at home via TV broadcasts for three months, Professional Bull Riders is eager to have everybody back over to its place. That day is scheduled to arrive July 10, when PBR will become one of the first national sports properties to hold an indoor event with ticket-buying customers in the house since COVID-19 brought the live business to a standstill. The occasion will be the first edition of the Monster Energy Team Challenge Championship, a three-day event to be contested at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, S.D. PBR is an old hand at staging competitions in the pandemic era, having put its… Continue Reading PBR Ready to Put the Boot to Empty Arenas
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