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Stadium Tech Report

January 9th, 2025

Paul Kapustka

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CityPark Concessions, Part 2: The technology powering the operation

Almost every sports team has some version of a stadium or team app, usually developed by one of the main third-party providers in the market. These vary in quality and functionality, with most teams trying hard to engage fans by supporting digital ticketing and payment and loyalty services inside the app, with varying degrees of success in getting fans to...

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An Ambitious Order: CityPark’s recipe of new technology and all-local food providers is a concessions winner

What's one of the toughest tasks for any soccer stadium? It's trying to figure out how to get food and drink in fans' hands inside the narrow available windows before and during the matches. For any team, it's a hard-to-balance puzzle, trying to match concessions performance with traditional fan behaviors, like tailgating right up until kickoff, as well as the...

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Please take the 2023 Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey!

It's that time of the year again, when we ask all our stadium technology professionals to share their insights by taking our annual Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey! If you are one of our readers who is directly involved with the selection, deployment or approval of in-venue technology deployments (and this can be an in-house or outside consultant role), I ask...

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Zippin debuts ‘walk-up’ checkout-free concession stand at Arrowhead Stadium

Checkout-free technology provider Zippin has launched the first of its new "Walk-up" style concession stands, where checkout-free technology is deployed into an existing concession stand using existing appliances, kitchen, and counter space. Debuting at a recent Taylor Swift concert, the "Kingdom Grill" is the first checkout-free stand at the Kansas City Chiefs' Geha Field at Arrowhead Stadium. Unlike other Zippin...

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Cavs partner with Boldyn Networks for new 5G DAS at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse

The Cleveland Cavaliers have signed a deal with Boldyn Networks to bring a new 5G distributed antenna system (DAS) to Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse to improve cellular connectivity for fans and for back-of-house communications. Boldyn, a newly formed communications-services provider that includes the company formerly known as Mobilitie, said it will deploy a neutral host indoor DAS that supports all 5G...

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