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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 5070003, member: 27"]
Not sure this is a great idea.

They ordered 70,000.  Sold 44,269.

So there is the matter of what to do with the extra 25,731 hot dogs while the team goes on a long road trip.

And there is the matter of all the fans that were throwing hot dogs at the one guy who was tracking his hot dog and beer consumption on his shirt, ala WWI airplane aces.  Police escorted him out of the stadium on hopes of preventing a riot.  Cleanup costs were probably quite a bit higher than normal.

It also assumes that you can make a profit selling hot dogs in a stadium at a dollar a dog.  They normally cost $7 (and based on what I saw, they were the Nathan's finest hot dogs the Mets normally sell).

They likely lost money on every hot dog sold.  If they broke even, that would really be impressive given the cost of food and labor costs in NYC.

I think the idea here was to get more people to buy tickets and attend the game and make money that way.  Attendance was 22.880 for the game.  They are averaging 24,352 per game this season so it appears if that was the plan, this was not successful.

All that said, if SU did a dollar hotdog day, I would be in for a couple.  Even if I just came from a tailgate and already had a full belly.  And for mine, you can hold the bun SU!

;)

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