The Monument to donate 5K seats to Central States Fair; supply chain issues begin to affect concessions

RAPID CITY, S.D. — We’re all acquainted with supply chain issues and employment struggles, and The Monument isn’t any exception.

The Monument’s Executive Director, Craig Baltzer, says their bills are going up. The new Summit Arena has solely been open for just a few months, so Baltzer says its affect on their general price range isn’t well-established but.

At the concession stand, fan-favorites like mushy pretzels are unavailable for the reason that Major League Baseball season began, and Baltzer says once they can get them once more, their price will replicate that scarcity.

“The price of doing enterprise for meals and beverage is 40% up from a 12 months in the past, and nonetheless going up,” Baltzer says. “Where’s the top of that?”

Baltzer says they re-evaluate their concession costs repeatedly, evaluating regionally, regionally, and even nationally. The query everyone seems to be ready to reply is simply how lengthy will these supply chain issues persist.

Also, in a cost-saving, so-called “win-win” endeavor, The Monument can also be donating greater than five-thousand seats from the outdated Barnett Arena to the Central States Fairgrounds.

Baltzer says the price of removing can be a lot increased than any potential proceeds from promoting the seats.

“They’re going to be buying some seats that they want, and so they’re going to do the removing, so we don’t have to undergo the price of removing,” Baltzer says. “That permits us to then possibly within the stadia in there, construct some further storage areas and issues like that.”

Under the settlement, the Central States Fairgrounds will take away the seats – at their very own price and with The Monument’s supervision – to be used within the James Kjerstad Event Center.

The contract says the Central States Fairgrounds ought to have the seats eliminated by October 1, working round The Monument’s occasion schedule.