Horrible and a embarrassment!!!!!  Also another reason to avoid Dukes games. Many other schools that I would put in a mid major category have Chick-fil-a, or a local vendor supplying something better than old hot dogs and stale popcorn!!!!!   Forgot the service stinks too.

Last edited by The Dome (1/21/2016 7:04 pm)

Hopefully that's something the new AD will try to address

duqkurt wrote:

Honestly I have seen high schools do a better job than DU.  But that is low on my priority list.

You are probably right, but anything you can do to improve the experience for casual fans is a good thing. We need them to come back again

The Palumbo Center concession stands are the absolute last place I want to buy something to eat on game days.  I've only done so when circumstances force me to do so.

I did eat lunch in the Towers cafeteria a few years ago.  What a great improvement from my days on campus in the mid 70s!  My thought is that the Palumbo concession company should be let go and whomever is running the Towers cafeteria and other campus venues should be given Palumbo Center as well.  Then the students who have meal contracts could use those at the concession stands. 

If better concessions will put more students in the seats, it's worth the effort, but I doubt that the students fail to support the teams because of poor food, or long lines at the concessions.  The location and design of the concession stands was poor from the outset, but more variety and good quality options should still be explored.  I assumed that Parkhurst, ( Eat N Park commercial group)  who currently has the food service contract also supplies the staff and food for Palumbo.
I think the concessions got off to a really bad start the first ten years or so, when Duquesne was paying off the building, and contracted with DeCesare-Engler to manage the facility and book concerts and other events.  D-E also handled the food concession and really did the worst possible job one could imagine.  Poor quality, limited offerings, short-staffed, disinterested and rude staff.  They really did nothing with the concessions.

Boy are you misinformed? Close to the situation but without data.

How's parking?? I seem to remember one of you raising a real fuss with parking office a couple of years ago, but only wanted to lob stones to the President's office, but not come forth.........ummmmmmmmm? Is it better? 
 

ummmmmm?

Last edited by newsherriff (2/11/2016 1:56 pm)

The main problem with why the Palumbo center is so terrible is because its operated by Duquesne University, not a third party. You see a lot of arenas, pavilions, centers ETC operated by a third party or management group. For example Ryan center (URI)  is operated by Spectra venue mngmt. Monumental sports (GMU) the company that owns the wizards, caps, DC WNBA team operate the eagle bank arena , Spectra venue mngmt also operates Chaifetz arena (SLU), The Mullins center (UMASS) is operated by spectra mngmt... You see the schools that use a management group host concerts and other events in order to generate money the management group takes the largest cut and the school will get a percentage and the management group will be in charge of all aspects of the facility... really a win win if you won't to have concerts and your athletic dept is flexible and wants to see some of the money. The palumbo center is piece of (profanity) and should be operated by a third party and have them throw a few million in to it and allow them to host concerts and in return the MBB and WBB team would benefit but theres no leadership at duquesne and there hasn't been for 40 years so it will continue to be a crap shoot. 

How about this, WIN, Don't blame the pretzels, nachos. You understand. If you have product on the floor all things like money and quality of "Nachos" fall in line. That's it, Win!!! Never gonna happen though.