Main cafe queues were huge. It won't be resolved unless another cafe opens somewhere else. We have one cafe serving hot food (chips etc not just hotdogs) with 2/3 service points for up to 3000 people. To put it into perspective Nottingham and Sheffield have one per two blocks with about 5-8 points, and you still queue there. One cafe will never work well, no matter how prepared they are, such a BBT/WNIR mentality, when crowds were potentially half the size.
Also, benches again. Anyone else notice how the Zagreb backup NM had to sit on a chair in the walkway outside of the bench because he couldn't fit? This will be a common theme with more team than not running 4 lines. It's just crap, has to change.
I love this rink, the whole effort that fans put in to getting it make it really mean something and the foundations are there for it to be a stellar facility. Silly mistakes and the lack of hockey knowledge/interest really hold it back though.
There is obviously a cash flow issue, corner bars were paid for by brewery. The gym that they were meant to have doesn't seem to have happened, curling facilities haven't materialised either. We have a dance studio that is hardly used, if at all (and that's from figure skaters) yet the merchandise shop is tiny, much smaller than the BBT.
