The Short Version
We spent this summer going through the concessions information for all 32 NFL teams: the official stadium guides, the team announcements, the concessionaire press releases, and local food coverage. The rule was simple. An item went on our site only if a source named it. No guessing, no "they probably sell nachos."
Our NFL pages now list 817 items across 393 named concession stands.
The research also turned up a number we did not expect: 665 of those 817 items have no published price anywhere we could find.
What That Means When You're Budgeting
Stadiums are happy to tell you what they sell. They are much less happy to tell you what it costs.
Almost every venue publishes a concessions page. Most list stand names, sections, and often the full menu. Only two, Atlanta and Carolina, put a price next to nearly everything.
So when you see a confident "beer costs $X at every stadium" chart, be a little suspicious of where the number came from. There are syndicated datasets that track the cheapest available beer at each venue, which is a real number but not the one you'll pay walking up to a regular stand at halftime.
The Exception
Mercedes-Benz Stadium is the outlier, and not by a little.
Atlanta cut concession prices when the stadium opened in 2017, published them, and has kept doing it. It is one of two NFL venues where nearly every item we catalogued comes with a price attached; the other is Bank of America Stadium, whose mobile ordering menu prices every item. Mercedes-Benz Stadium is also, by our numbers, the cheapest food and drink in the league at an estimated $9 for a typical food-and-drink spend, against a league average of $20 on the Best Food Value rankings.
Whatever you think of the Falcons, they treat concession pricing as public information.
What We Found Beyond Prices
The stand data turned out to be more useful than we expected, because "where do I actually buy this" is a question nobody was answering.
- Allegiant Stadium lists the most: 20 named stands, with sections for each. Elote at sections 119-130, 218-223 and 302-312, BBQ Mexicana at 116-127 and 309-319, and so on.
- Bank of America Stadium lists 18, and Acrisure Stadium, Empower Field at Mile High, and Huntington Bank Field each list 16.
- Raymond James Stadium lists the fewest we could confirm, at 4, not because Tampa has four stands, but because the venue ties specific items to specific stands less often than most.
The new Highmark Stadium in Buffalo organises its concessions as neighbourhood markets (Kaisertown, North Park, Black Rock), which is a nice touch and also genuinely useful, because the naming tells you what kind of food to expect.
Where the Data Went Wrong, and What We Did About It
A few things we caught and corrected while doing this, because they are the kind of thing that quietly rots on a site like ours:
- Beers from a brewery that has since closed were still turning up in coverage of EverBank Stadium. We left them out.
- The old Highmark Stadium menu was still floating around in coverage. The new building has a different concessionaire, so none of it carried over.
- Lambeau Field's own A-Z guide still lists a pub that closed in 2015. We used the concessionaire's current menu PDF instead.
Every venue we researched now carries a dated evidence file recording what each source said, what we rejected, and why.
The Honest Caveat
Because we refuse to invent prices, most menu items on our stadium pages now show no price at all. That is a real trade. You get 817 items that are actually sold instead of a tidier list of items we made up, and where a venue does publish a figure, you get that figure.
If you've paid for something recently and the price is missing or wrong, there's a report link on every item. That's the fastest way this gets better.
Start with the Best Food Value rankings to see how the leagues compare, or the Game Day Price Index to sort all 124 venues yourself.