{"id":903463,"date":"2026-11-02T17:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T17:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/903463\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T17:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T17:54:14","slug":"royals-eye-authentically-kansas-city-concessions-in-deal-with-delaware-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/903463\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals eye \u2018authentically Kansas City\u2019 concessions in deal with Delaware North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/DGS6CAQJQ5DNBM5PNMGMIOY2QE.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>The Royals said that a reason Delaware North was picked to handle food and beverage operations at the team\u2019s new downtown ballpark is that it \u201cgives its general managers more leeway to adjust operations for their particular market.\u201d Royals <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">The Royals said that a reason Delaware North was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/10\/27\/with-midwestern-baseball-at-its-core-delaware-north-wins-royals-new-ballpark-fb-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/10\/27\/with-midwestern-baseball-at-its-core-delaware-north-wins-royals-new-ballpark-fb-business\/\">picked to handle food and beverage operations<\/a> at the team\u2019s new downtown ballpark is that it \u201cgives its general managers more leeway to adjust operations for their particular market,\u201d according to Brian Kaberline of the K.C. BUSINESS JOURNAL. Royals President of Business Operations Cullen Maxey said it \u201chappens to fit into a vision that we have going in, that we want to be authentically Kansas City.\u201d The team had signed a series of extensions with current partner Aramark\u2060 while settling on a site for the new ballpark. Maxey said that officials heard from Aramark as well as newer entrants in the field like Legends Global and Oak View Group. Maxey said that he views the concessions at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/10\/16\/royals-envision-intimate-fan-experience-unique-design-for-crown-center-ballpark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/10\/16\/royals-envision-intimate-fan-experience-unique-design-for-crown-center-ballpark\/\">the new ballpark<\/a> \u201clike a menu.\u201d There will be \u201ctried-and-true items, but also some flexibility to change, even season to season\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/kansascity\/news\/2026\/11\/02\/royals-exec-maxey-talks-delaware-north-concessions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">K.C. BUSINESS JOURNAL, 11\/2<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royals said that a reason Delaware North was picked to handle food and beverage operations at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[167,134621,107486,363,25696,99],"class_list":["post-903463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-deals","tag-delaware-north-sportservice","tag-food-and-beverage","tag-mlb","tag-royals","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}