Get Yer $10 Hot Chocolate at Yankee Stadium!

Courtesy Scoreboard Gourmet

Did you know that a 16 ounce cup of hot chocolate will cost you ten dollars at Yankee Stadium? It's news to Sports Illustrated's Peter King, who was shivering through a Yankees-Angels game the other night when a vendor passed by hawking the luxury chocolate-flavored water. He later crunched the numbers on the product, and guesstimates that the Yankees are making about $9.15 profit on each hot chocolate sold (23 cents for bulk chocolate power, 6.5 cents for a cup and lid, 5 cents for hot water, and maybe 50 cents for the vendor).

To be fair, one Chowhound user insists this is "Swiss Miss level" hot chocolate, and King also omits the crucial fact that it comes in a collectible Inaugural Season Souvenir Hot Cup! But the only problem with the cup is that it doesn't actually keep the hot chocolate hot! Scoreboard Gourmet attended one of the championship games, and reports, "39 minutes to first pitch and people already complaining the hot chocolate isn't hot. And when this hot chocolate is not hot, you can actually taste it, which is undesirable."

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By John Del Signore in Food on October 19, 2009 4:25 PM

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John

Ridiculous, even worse than the $15 they will take you for to have a steak sandwich. For $4 more you could have a filet mignon sandwich with PERFECTLY sauteed onions and greens, as well as a heaping helping of steak fries at Uncle Jack's Steakhouse (unclejacks.com). This is why I would much rather plop my money down to go out, be treated to the upmost in personal service and decor. Far better use of my hard earned money than of freezing my butt off, and getting robber for it! You could sit down at Uncle Jack's and have a 4 course meal for four on their prix fix menu for the price of one Yankee playoff ticket!

TheCowman

I was thinking about going to game 1 or 2 at the Stadium since there were plenty of tickets on StubHub.

Apparently, StubHub felt the tickets were quite a "deal" as the cheapest seats which basically sat me somewhere in the South Bronx were $60 per. So for me, wife and kid, 3 tickets were $180, plus all the surcharges were running me about $215. Then I figure with the $10 hot cocoa's for the damn kid, the food, snacks, etc...we're going to be running up a tab of $260 for one game.

Instead we bought steak, a bottle of wine, and watched the game at home, warm, with my daughter on the couch with me and it cost $50. What a deal!!!

ScoreboardGourmet

You also can get hot chocolate in a plain/white/non-souvenir cup at Yankee Stadium. It's $4 for 12oz, which is the same price as coffee. But you still should drink quickly so you don't really taste it.

Ace

The only thing more outrageous than selling $10 hot chocolate? Buying $10 hot chocolate. Enjoy that Inaugural Season Souvenir Hot Cup.

Mr Mel

The Steinbrenner progeny is probably getting advice from the Madoffs on how to rip off the public. It didn't work for the Wilpon kids.

gothamguy

Well how else would the Yankees be able to pay all the taxes on those $942 million in tax-exempt bonds the City handed them.

Oh, right. Well, we don't need those tax dollars these days anyhow. It is better than that Yankees make a hefty profit.

NannyState

So, where are the $500 "NY Yankees Snuggies" to go with?

EastRiver

Plenty of empty seats at Game 1 and 2.

nicemarmot

Ah yes, now I remember why I haven't visited the new Yankee Stadium yet. It's funny how pretty much everything I read about it makes me think "ack, that sounds expensive and not much nicer than the old one."