Expensive food prices - including $280 lobster rolls - defended by Miami GP boss
Eye-𓄧watering food prices at the Miami Grand Prix have been defended by the F1 race's boss.
The F1 Miami Grand Prix boss, Tom Garfinkel,🍸 has defended the expensive pricing of food sold during last wee♔kend’s event.
Extortionate prices of some food products on sale were 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:highlighted in p💦osts on social media whi🌠ch revealed Nachos costing $180 and lobster rolls priced at a whopping $280.
But Garfinkel, the managing partner of the F1 race and boss o🦩f the Miami Dolphins NFL team, says the posts took some of the prices out of context.
"Somebody sent out a tweet the other day that showed a lobster roll was $280 and they sent it out without comment," Garfinkel told select media including Motorsport.com. "And the context that wasn't included is that it was fo🐟r a suite.
"It was💟 a lobster roll, for probably 10 people, for $280.”
Ticket prices for the Miami race have also come under fire since its debut event in 2022༒.
Miami responded by introducing a $150 campus pass - a type of general admission tick🀅et - 🐎to provide fans with a more affordable three-day option.
"I think it was really fun to see, probably for the first time in three years, the 300 level of the stadium was almost half full [with] campus passhold💯ers," he said.
"They can go right across the way [he points to a spot 💙outside the braking zone for Turn 1, where a spectator platform is located] where there's risers where people can stand on if you buy a campus pass for $150 a day – you can stand right next to the race track.
"And those risers exist in multiple areas around the race track. You can go upstairs at the top of the stadi♏um, walk around, see most of the track, and the concessions are open just like they are for football.
"So, there are options that are less expensive, and there's a lot of them all over the campus. An💜d then there's some options that are more expensive, and then there's some options that are really expensive because [renowned New York celebrity chef] Mario Carbone is there making your vodka rigatoni, and it's going to cost a lot of money.
"We're just trying to provide options across that spectrum and sometimes people are going to point one thing ou🥃t and say 'that's really expensive' without providing the context that it's actually a lobster roll for a suite for 10 people, right?
"So, there are inexpensive options as well as that, which is💯 important to us.”
F1 ann♕ounced that a sellout c꧂rowd of 275,000 fans attended the 2024 Miami Grand Prix weekend.
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