tablesidefor the Rivergate Pilots

Nobody misses the seventh standing in line.

Tableside's proposal to run food and drink at Rivergate Ballpark for seven seasons, 2027 to 2033.

Prepared forRivergate Pilots
DateOct 31, 2026
Your total$72,000,000
tablesideforRivergate PilotsRivergate Ballpark
Food and drink proposal
Prepared October 31, 2026

Nobody misses the seventh standing in line.

Tableside's bid to run food and drink at Rivergate Ballpark for seven seasons. Forty-one thousand seats, 81 home dates a year, and an operator built around the rush between innings.

Scrub a game →See the menu
Seats41,000
Home dates81
Seasons2027–33
Stands38
Minutes at the stretch14 → 3
Seven-season total$72,000,000

You told us fans are missing innings.

From your RFP of August 14 and the 2026 fan survey, 11,800 responses. Your words first, then the number behind them.

I missed a home run getting a beer.Season ticket holder, section 214
14 minaverage wait at the end of the seventh in 2026
Half the upper deck is shut on a Tuesday.Fan survey, weeknight attendee
9 of 38stands closed on Tuesday to Thursday dates
Same hot dog as every other park.Fan survey, first-time visitor
3 of 71menu items made by anyone from Rivergate
We're leaving money on the concourse.Your RFP, section 2.1
$19.80food and drink per fan, against a league median of $25.10
61%

of fans named the lines as the worst part of a night at Rivergate. Everything on this page starts there.

Scrub a Saturday night game.

Every stand on the concourse, from the gates opening to the last out. Drag the clock, then switch between this season and our first season.

7:05TOP 1
Fans in line0
Longest wait0 min
Innings spent in line tonight0

Longest lines right now

    Stretch and last call
    Under 4 minutes4 to 8 minutesOver 8 minutesStand closed

    The seventh, one stand at a time.

    9:13 pm

    Middle of the seventh. The organ starts and forty-one thousand people stand up for the stretch.

    9:14 pm

    The PA reads last call. Beer stops when the inning ends, and everybody on the concourse knows it.

    9:19 pm

    This season the line at Stand 14 runs past section 118. Fourteen minutes. They'll hear the bottom of the seventh from the back of it.

    9:19 pm

    With us, the order nudge went out in the sixth. Two hundred orders are already bagged on the shelf, the rail pours four beers at a time, and the line's gone before the first pitch.

    Move the rush before it starts.

    The line at the stretch is a timing problem. Drag the baseball to choose when the app nudges fans to order ahead, add pickup windows, switch the beer rails, and watch the seventh flatten.

    Peak wait
    3:10this season 13:20
    Fans in line at the stretch
    0this season 0
    Innings spent in line, whole game
    0this season 0
    8 pickup windows

    Nudge set for the bottom of the sixth.

    Seven changes to the building.

    Two winters of building, all of it finished between the last home date and Opening Day. Nothing closes during a homestand.

    Twenty-four stands, rebuilt

    Double-sided counters, a pickup shelf on every one, new hoods and points of sale that take a card in two seconds. Twelve open on Opening Day 2027, twelve more for 2028.

    Peak wait per stand, 11 min to 3 min

    Order ahead, nudged in the sixth

    The app sends one nudge at the moment that flattens the rush, and orders wait in numbered cubbies at eight pickup windows. Fans walk up, scan, leave.

    Two in five stretch orders placed before the stretch

    Ten beer rails

    Four taps per rail, poured by the rail, paid at the end. A cup every eight seconds at each tap.

    Beer line at the stretch, about 4 min

    Riverside Row

    Eight Rivergate kitchens in the right field plaza, on two-year rotations. We build the stalls, they cook.

    Local items, 3 to 31 by 2028

    Four walk-out markets

    Grab-and-go shops where a camera reads the basket. Water and a pretzel in forty seconds, no counter.

    Average visit, 40 seconds

    In-seat service, 101 to 128

    Order from your seat in the lower bowl and a runner brings it between batters, never during a pitch.

    From 2028, after the suites contract ends

    Zero-waste back of house

    Compost and recycling sorted behind the counter, by staff, so fans never have to guess which bin. A waste report to you after every homestand.

    Trash hauled per game, 9.1 tons to 3.4

    The same people, better paid

    Every stand worker on your current roster gets an offer at the same wage or better before January 15. Most of them already know where every stand is.

    412 offers, all before the first shift

    Seven seasons. Two winters of building.

    Every build window opens after the last home date and closes before Opening Day.

    NowNov 2026 to Mar 2027
    Nov 20Four signatures
    DecRoster offers, tastings with the Row kitchens
    Jan 4 to Mar 20Winter build one. 12 stands, 10 rails, the Row, the app
    2027Season one
    Apr 2Opening Day
    WeeklyWait times sent to you every Monday
    Oct to MarWinter build two. 12 stands, 4 markets
    2028Season two
    AprIn-seat service opens in 101 to 128
    JulFirst full-season review
    2029Season three
    JanMenu refresh, two Row kitchens rotate
    OctFirst exit point if either side wants one
    2030Season four
    JanMenu refresh
    2031Season five
    JanRails and point of sale refreshed
    2032Season six
    JanMenu refresh
    2033Season seven
    JunRenewal talks start

    Four signatures. A straight answer for each.

    Each of you asked us one question in the RFP meetings. Here's each answer, with something to check it against.

    MarcusTeam PresidentPriyaVP Fan ExperienceTomCFOLenaHead of Operations

    Will this park be known for its food by 2030?

    MMarcus, Team President

    Yes, if the lines go first. Fans don't rate food they waited fourteen minutes for. Pick a season to see where the park stands that year with everything on the menu below.

    Wait at the stretch6 min2026, 14 min
    Food and drink per fan$22.402026, $19.80
    Items made in Rivergate242026, 3
    Fans naming lines as the worst part38%2026, 61%

    How long from my seat to food and back?

    PPriya, VP Fan Experience

    Pick a section. These are the walk and the wait at the stretch, this season and with us, and how many batters a fan misses on the way.

    What does the club keep after paying you?

    TTom, CFO

    Today the operator keeps the sales and pays you 38 percent. With us you keep every dollar, food, drink and wages come out at cost, and you pay our fee. Move the two numbers that matter.

    Today's deal, 38 percent of $19.80 a fan$17.5M
    With Tableside, after cost and our fee$21.0M
    More for the club each season+$3.5M

    Can we run a cold Tuesday and a sold-out Saturday?

    LLena, Head of Operations

    Same team, different shape. We staff each date from the ticket count three days out and close stands in pairs, so no section is ever more than two minutes from an open one. Tap a home date.

    SunMonTueWedThuFriSat

    Here's the menu. Build the order.

    Seven seasons of fees and building, in one number. Food, drink and wages come out of sales at cost and aren't in it.

    Seven seasons, everything you've picked
    $72,000,000
    About $10.29M a season, billed monthly in season

    When you pay, by season

    You're choosing between fixing the seventh and fixing the whole night. The base, the rebuilt stands, the rails and order-ahead fix the seventh. The Row, the markets and in-seat service fix the rest of the night. We'd buy all of it. If the number has to come down, drop in-seat service first, then rebuild 18 stands instead of 24.

    The terms, in plain words.

    The contract says the same things in more pages. If anything here and the contract ever disagree, this page wins.

    1. Seven seasonsJanuary 1, 2027 to December 31, 2033.
    2. Every dollar of sales is yoursFood, drink and wages come out at cost. You see every invoice in an open book each month.
    3. Our fee, monthly, in seasonBilled March to October. Building work is billed when each wave opens, never before.
    4. A promise on the lineIf the average wait at the stretch runs past six minutes in any month, five percent of that month's fee comes back to you.
    5. Everything we build is yoursCounters, rails, kitchens and shelves belong to the club the day they open.
    6. Your people firstEvery stand worker on the current roster gets an offer at the same wage or better before January 15.
    7. A door outEither side can leave after season three with twelve months' notice. You owe nothing on stands already paid for.
    8. One phone numberOur general manager works from the ballpark, answers to you, and is in the building every home date.

    Four things we don't know yet.

    We'd rather say so now than find out in March.

    1. 1
      Does the Local 212 agreement carry over to a new operator, or do we sign our own?We've asked the union and expect an answer by November 14.
    2. 2
      Will the city license self-pour beer rails?Two parks in the state have them. Rivergate's license doesn't say either way. If the answer is no, the rails become staffed rails at the same price.
    3. 3
      Who runs the suites in 2027?The current premium caterer holds them until the end of the 2027 season. We've priced suites from 2028 and left 2027 with you.
    4. 4
      Is Opening Day still April 2, 2027?If the schedule moves earlier, winter build one shrinks from twelve stands to ten and the other two move to the second winter.

    Swap lineup cards.

    Four signatures by November 20 and we start building on January 4. Any later and Opening Day gets eight new stands instead of twelve.

    Ask us something

    Tableside

    Your team at Rivergate

    1. 1RosaGeneral manager, at the park every home date
    2. 2DevExecutive chef
    3. 3HannahConcourse operations
    4. 4KwameRow kitchens and local partners
    5. 5InesOpen book and finance
    READYJAN 4 2027

    Rivergate Pilots

    Signatures

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    PLAY BALLSIGNED