{"id":35309,"date":"2013-03-20T12:15:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T17:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35309"},"modified":"2013-03-20T10:10:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T15:10:46","slug":"only-at-the-u-of-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35309","title":{"rendered":"Only At The U Of M&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;could they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/gophers\/ci_22825672\/university-minnesota-stadium-alcohol-sales-lost-money-school?source=rss&amp;utm_source=WhatCounts+Publicaster+Edition&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Politics+in+Minnesota+Morning+Report+3%2f20%2f2013&amp;utm_content=+U+lost+money+in+first+season+of+selling+alcohol+at+TCF+\">manage to lose money selling beer at a football game<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The school released the figures to the Associated Press after a records request, which showed it incurred significant expenses from its first season selling alcohol stadium-wide at TCF Bank Stadium. Those include hiring additional police and security officers, setting up tents and other facilities, and equipment rental. Roughly half of its revenues went directly to Philadelphia-based Aramark Corp., which had the contract to sell beer and wine.<\/p>\n<p>The booze itself cost the university about $180,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif;\">This bit here made me wonder if they really focused their spending properly (emphasis added): \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About $30,000 of the school&#8217;s expenses were one-time costs to prepare the stadium &#8212; from setting up ATMs to <strong>buying plants<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Plants?<\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with beer sales?<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that what urinals are for?<\/p>\n<p>They apparently expect to turn a profit next year. \u00a0Not sure if that&#8217;s tied with the GoGo football team making the playoffs &#8220;next year&#8221; or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;could they manage to lose money selling beer at a football game: The school released the figures to the Associated Press after a records request, which showed it incurred significant expenses from its first season selling alcohol stadium-wide at TCF Bank Stadium. Those include hiring additional police and security officers, setting up tents and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35311,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35309\/revisions\/35311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}