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We Read the Menu at Every NFL Stadium. Almost None of Them Publish Prices.

Kyle Piontek3 min readFood & Drink

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."

That produced 766 items across 387 named concession stands.

It also produced a number we did not expect: 681 of those 766 items — 89% — 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. Very few list a dollar figure next to anything. The prices that do get published tend to be the promotional ones: value menus, a $2 hot dog on a specific day, a season-ticket-holder discount.

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 made a decision in 2017 to cut concession prices and publish them, and they have kept doing it. It is the one NFL venue where nearly every item we catalogued came with a price attached. It 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 closer to $20.

Whatever you think of the Falcons, they are the only team treating 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, BBQ Mexicana at 116-127, and so on.
  • 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:

  • Three beer brands were still listed at EverBank Stadium from a brewery that closed in early 2025 after its sponsorship was terminated. Removed.
  • The old Highmark Stadium menu was still floating around in coverage. That concessionaire's contract ended after the 2025 season, so none of it carried over to the new building.
  • 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 766 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.

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Kyle Piontek

Kyle Piontek reads the venue's own material — guides, maps, menus, fare tables, accessibility and policy pages — and records what each one said and the day it was read. He built the checks that flag a fact that has gone stale, a price that two parts of the site disagree on, and a source link that has stopped resolving. Read the methodology or see the corrections log.