{"id":232363,"date":"2026-04-02T20:50:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/232363\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T20:50:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:50:26","slug":"fort-worth-to-pay-510000-for-early-exit-to-will-rogers-concession-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/232363\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth to pay $510,000 for early exit to Will Rogers concession contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Fort Worth City Council voted unanimously at its March 31 meeting to pay $510,000 to get out of its contract will Will Rogers Memorial Center concession vendor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.craftculinaryconcepts.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Craft Culinary Concepts.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Craft Culinary Concepts.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Craft Culinary Concepts.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The move comes four years into 10 year contract meant to revamp concessions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworthgov.granicus.com\/player\/clip\/4588?view_id=9&amp;redirect=true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:a November 2021 City Council presentation;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;a November 2021 City Council presentation&quot;}\" class=\"link \">a November 2021 City Council presentation<\/a>, concessions at Will Rogers were bringing in less revenue than similarly sized venues \u2014 around $1.86 per customer at Will Rogers compared to $4.60 per customer at other venues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Craft was chosen based on its track record of improving concessions at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworthgov.legistar.com\/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7959684&amp;GUID=5F43A6E7-0781-4134-9658-642D4B483780&amp;Options=&amp;Search=\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201coperational and financial issues\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;\u201coperational and financial issues\u201d&quot;}\" class=\"link \">\u201coperational and financial issues\u201d<\/a> led to a dispute over the contract and ultimately its termination, according to a city report. A line in the report stated that Craft took a significant financial loss in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Representatives for Craft and the city did not immediately respond to emails from the Star-Telegram requesting comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The city will pay $510,000 to reimburse Craft for part of the $750,000 in equipment and furniture upgrades the company committed to as part of the contract, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The city is also dropping its claim to up to $305,000 in maintenance and revenue sharing payments Craft set aside in a separate fund, according to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fort Worth City Council voted unanimously at its March 31 meeting to pay $510,000 to get out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4519,116,118,117,33798],"class_list":["post-232363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-city-council","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-rogers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}