At the Skydome in Toronto (I refuse to call it the Rogers center), they have a policy that the concession people are not allowed to sell you a bottle (plastic) of pop with the cap on.
They remove the cap in front of you, and throw it out. If you ask for the cap they say they are not allowed to give it to you due to stadium policy.
For the life of me, I can’t think of a reasonable reason why they have this policy. Does anybody know why they do this?
This was at an Argos football game. And yes, I’m going to bring my own cap next time because otherwise the pop goes flat too quickly. Heh maybe they’ll kick me out and I’ll get a change to ask why.
Yeah, I thought of that too. But if I wanted to chuck the bottle would it being capless really stop me? If that really was their concern you would think they would just switch to selling it in cups instead.
My WAG is that it has something to do with alcohol. It’s pretty easy to mix Jack and Coke and make it look normal in a coke bottle. You can also stash it away pretty quickly.
Bottle of soda/pop with cap off: loses who knows how much liquid on the way, spilling it on people who can probably determine who threw it and are close enough to do something about it.
Could that be the answer? Accelerating the flatness of soda yields more soda sales. I wonder if the cap keeps the soda colder longer. That might also lead to more soda sales.
Do they do the same with beer? It wouldn’t work the same way with beer since no real sports fan would waste beer. But once the beer has gone flat and warm, it’s much easier to chug and then get a new one.
Any possibility of an odd local statute concerning the selling vs serving of beverages? I can envision something that would tax them differently if they sell closed bottles, as opposed to serving opened bottles.
Bottle caps getting stuck in the drains?
They give the bottle caps to the staff, who can then enter the codes printed in them to see if they win whatever the current bottle cap promotion?
Wouldn’t surprise me if simple litter was the major issue. Sell 20,000 drinks with caps, and maybe half those caps will end up in the garbage cans. The rest’ll just be dropped near the seats as the patrons settle in, open their drinks, and only then realize there’s nowhere but the floor to put the caps.
Holy crap! How big are these bottles? I can’t imagine a standard 20oz bottle (or whatever the standard size is in Canada) going flat faster than I can drink it. I usually buy 1-liter bottles, and I can usually finish those off before they go flat, and I don’t keep the bottle capped when it’s sitting next to me.