The End of the Ballpark Beer Line?

Pardon if someone else has linked to this previously on the site, but as product design, and as the solution to a real problem, this is AWESOME.

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So awesome

Juan "Doesn't Cheat The Game" Perez, future CF for the World Champion San Francisco Giants.

by marcello on Jan 19, 2011 3:39 PM PST reply actions

Whoa.

by Natto on Jan 19, 2011 3:54 PM PST reply actions

Great stuff & great idea

2 negatives though:
1. More jobs outsourced – teenagers, minorities and low-skilled workers hardest hit!!!!

Springer said stadiums that have used the system have gone from using eight beer pourers for every two cashiers to having one beer pourer for every eight cashiers.

2. I’m just waiting for the first lawsuit to be filed when the magnet comes off accidentally and chokes a drinker to death or to a coma. Then you’ll also have the ambulance-chasers filing class-action lawsuits based on the magentic fields causing cancer in their clients. Isn’t beer just as addictive as cigarettes?

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by Fla-Giant on Jan 19, 2011 4:18 PM PST reply actions

Both good points. Plus, the unit cost of the magnet cups being 45 cents to 10 cents for a regular cup probably would mean that the concessionaires would pass the extra cost onto the fan, instead of keeping the cost of the beer the same (due to savings realized by fewer pourers).

"I could hear the angry MCC cacophany in my head."--Oldjacket, 7/4/10

by Kitspool on Jan 19, 2011 4:56 PM PST up reply actions

how much money would be saved by having to hire less employees/beer-pourers?

I have seen the future of Major League Baseball, and its name is Buster Posey.

by atxgiantsfan on Jan 20, 2011 10:30 AM PST up reply actions

Well, teenagers can’t legally pour alcoholic drinks anyway. They can serve, but they can’t pour.

by kaliber on Jan 19, 2011 7:19 PM PST up reply actions

So if you bumped the bottom or your cup it would probably spill some out of the bottom right? I feel like this could create some multiple beer carrying issues. Also, I don’t feel like slow pouring has anywhere near the effect on concession lines as slow workers does.

Thing A

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by sam23 on Jan 19, 2011 5:21 PM PST reply actions

this

basic math and counting slow up lines. Not just the workers (although it usually is) but the customer itself. We all know that asshole that is gives a nickel to the cashier thinking it was a quarter.

Honorary parent of Duane Kuiper, beloved broadcaster and power hitting coach for the Giants.

by Giant Voodoo on Jan 19, 2011 7:34 PM PST up reply actions