Slammed at the Game

The projected attendance for yesterday's game between the KC Royals and SF Giants was 3800 fans. We had 6734 attend the game. The Giants are always a big draw, so the projection is a mystery. We had lines at the stand from about 12 noon through 3 PM, and it was all we could do to keep up with having enough product available. We did run out of foot-long dogs and brats briefly at one point, but other than that, we handled everything pretty well. Danny, our manager, congratulated all of us on a good job following the game. It is always better to be busy rather than standing around, but yesterday was borderline madness.

I performed the inventory count as always following the game, and there was, once again, a huge discrepancy between the cash and the goods sold. I have no idea what is causing these discrepancies, and neither does Danny. I recounted the inventory and came up with the same totals as the original count. The problem has to be in the cash or, perhaps one or more of the cashiers isn't ringing up sales properly. We were $600 short on sales of over $10K for the game. We did have a new cashier come on the job yesterday and our lead cashier was trying to train her while all the lines were forming at the registers. Maybe that had something to do with the shortage. It has become a frustrating situation. Our game today is between the Rangers and the Dodgers and we are expecting even more fans than yesterday. I'm holding my breath for the results after this game.

We were both so tired from the frenzy yesterday that we came straight home and watched just a little TV before turning in early at 8:30 last night. It is becoming a real challenge to stand on the cement all day without the mats that we had last year. All of the cashiers are complaining about having back pains after each game, and Josie and I have bad backs to begin with. It has been a long week, and there are still two games to go...

Largest Crowd

The crowd for yesterday's game was suppose to be the largest so far of the season. It did not disappoint. The projection was for 8800 fans and the announcement on the P.A. system stated the crowd was 10,600. It was non-stop lines at our concession from about 12:30 to 3 PM. It easily was the busiest that we have been all season and we finished with over $12K in business. The really good news is that we didn't run out of anything during the entire game which says that our prep the day before was right on. It was a pretty fast game and was over before 3:30, even though I didn't get home until after 5 PM as a result of post game duties. Today, we have the Chicago White Sox playing the KC Royals. This should be a much slower day than yesterday.

This is also the next to the last Sunday we will work which is good since we don't care much about working with the weekend crew we have. With only 9 games left on our schedule, there is only one more weekend of games. It doesn't seem like we have been here for 5 months already, but we are looking forward to the next 6 months. People will start leaving the area any day now for their summer destinations. Most will be gone by the middle of April when the real heat begins to arrive in this area.

It will be a "normal" day at the ballpark, if there is such a thing. We look forward to visiting with family at Brian and Amy's for St Patrick's Day dinner. They are also having George and Cheryl and Amy's folks there for dinner. That will probably be our last visit with family before we head out on the first of April.

Have a great St Patrick's Day everybody...