Fans complain of lengthy queues as US college football teams play Down Under

By Kim Arlington
Updated August 28 2016 - 11:18pm, first published 8:47am
Friends (L-R) Shea Bowers, Nathan Smith, Kale Dyson and Loring Kwon eating 2 foot long hot dogs at Saturday's Sydney Cup. Photo: Fiona Morris
Friends (L-R) Shea Bowers, Nathan Smith, Kale Dyson and Loring Kwon eating 2 foot long hot dogs at Saturday's Sydney Cup. Photo: Fiona Morris
University of Hawaii cheerleaders rev up the crowd before the Sydney Cup on Saturday.
 Photo: Fiona Morris
University of Hawaii cheerleaders rev up the crowd before the Sydney Cup on Saturday. Photo: Fiona Morris
Cal players run onto the field at Sydney's ANZ Stadium for the first game of American college football played in Australia. Photo: Fiona Morris
Cal players run onto the field at Sydney's ANZ Stadium for the first game of American college football played in Australia. Photo: Fiona Morris

When two US college football teams met in Sydney, American-style food was one of the drawcards. But the demand for it proved a problem, with fans complaining of queueing for an hour for giant hot dogs and ANZ Stadium running out of beer.

Saturday's inaugural Sydney Cup clash, in which the University of California, Berkeley, defeated the University of Hawaii 51-31, drew a crowd of 61,247 and lasted almost four hours.
The unique nature of the event, including the midday kick-off, "created an unprecedented demand for food and beverage offerings, resulting in unfortunate queues" a spokesman for ANZ Stadium said.
"We had more than 61,000 people walk into the venue just before lunchtime all wanting to eat and drink," he said. "This created long queues that took an extended period to service.The specific demand for American-style food products that took longer to prepare – such as the 2-foot hot dogs – added to the challenges."

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