Allegiant Stadium Food/Beverage Concessionaire Oak View Group Rolls Out Seven Local F/B Vendors With Raiders Home-Opener Monday
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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Food and drinks are big business at stadiums these days and Oak View Group, Allegiant Stadium’s new concessionaire, Tuesday put on display food and beverage offerings that will provided by seven new local sub-contractors.
It was big news in the spring when Denver-based Oak View Group took over from Levy Restaurants the job of running the food/beverage operations at the Raiders-managed stadium on the west side of I-15 across from Mandalay Bay hotel-casino.
Levy Restaurants scored the Allegiant Stadium concessions job in 2019, before the Raiders switched gears and hired Oak View Group to start April 1.
When Levy Restaurants lost the Allegiant Stadium job, Levy used a LinkedIn post to explain that when Raiders owner Mark Davis sold a minority share to Oak View Group investor Egon Durban, “the common ownership interest of both the Raiders and OVG was impossible to overcome.”
When Oak View Group took over Allegiant Stadium’s F/B operations, it hired seven new Las Vegas-area vendors for the venue:
^ Antidote, a local Hawaiian restaurant
^ Border Grill, home of celebrity chefs Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken
^ Mothership Coffee, a women-owned business
^ Mr. Fries Man, started from an LA underground food scene to 21 franchises nationwide
^ Sun Cruiser, spirits-based, ready-to-drink hard iced tea and lemonade beverage produced by The Boston Beer Company.
^ Taqueria Ktrina, founded by two Latina sisters
^ Tu Michoacana, family-owned business
There are about 27 total local food and drink vendors, including these new seven at Allegiant Stadium.
These are Wild West times for stadiums and concessionaires as the dynamics of deal-making have changed.
For example, prominent food concessionaire Aramark and the MLB Athletics cut a 20-year, $175 million deal for Aramark to be the new food and drink provider at the new A’s stadium on the Strip, including Aramark holding a $100 million stake in the baseball team that plans to open the stadium in Las Vegas in 2028.
If Oak View Group rings a bell in Las Vegas it’s because the arena-building and management company is interested in building an arena in this market.
But Oak View Group is no longer pursuing a previously-announced proposal to build an NBA arena at Las Vegas Boulevard and Blue Diamond Road. There is no update on the Oak View Group arena plan in Las Vegas. A development group called LVXP also wants to build an NBA arena on the north end of the Strip while Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley, who owns 15 percent of T-Mobile Arena, says he is willing to spend $300 million to update T-Mobile Arena to house an NBA team.
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