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To Improve the Team Aqualinni has Fired the....Food and Beverage Staff?

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Nearly 1,000 people who serve food and beverages at Vancouver Canucks hockey games and other events at Rogers Arena will be out of work in a few months.

Concession and food service employees arriving at work Monday were given notices telling them that their employer Aramark's contract at the arena, which was supposed to last into 2015, had been terminated early.

Canucks Sports & Entertainment, the same group that owns and operates the Vancouver Canucks hockey team, has had a contract withAramark since the arena opened 18 years ago.

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Staff who serve popcorn, hot dogs, beer other food and beverages at Rogers Arena learned Monday that they will be out of work in a few months. (CBC)

The arena's chief operating officer Victor de Bonis said "big changes" in the arena's food and drink services are going to be unveiled July 1, and they plan to run the concession themselves, including hiring 1,000 new workers.

"Everyone will have a fair opportunity to apply and we will soon announce plans for a job fair and other opportunities as they become available,” de Bonis said in a written statement.

"Aramark has been our provider since we opened our arena in 1995 and we thank them for their years of service," he said.

David Freireich, a spokesman for Aramark, said the company is disputing the early contract termination, but decided it was important to let the affected employees know about the notice of contract termination it received.

Employees of Aramark who spoke with CBC News said they currently earn between $13 and $18 an hour and are concerned the new jobs that being created will be lower-paying.

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Canucks Sports & Entertainment says it plans to hire its own employees to run the concessions and restaurants starting July 1. (CBC)

Canucks Sports & Entertainment has not said what range of wages it will be offering.

A notice posted on the University of British Columbia's calendar of public events says that Canucks Sports & Entertainment is holding a job fair on campus today, though it does not say whether the positions it is trying to fill involve food and beverage services, or just other arena positions.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-canucks-concession-staff-s-contract-terminated-1.2567701

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I didn't know where to post this but seemed like off topic was best, but laying off 1000+ people to improve service seems kind of like the least of the teams problems doesn't it?

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Money hungry owners, there's nothing more to it.

These owners don't give a crap about the fans or anyone, they would rather this team keep getting eliminated in the first round instead of going through a rebuild. Notice how it said they will be taking over with the concessions, it's just so these guys can keep on making more money.

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Relax guys, Gillis is just gonna make use of some of our overpaid guys. Look for Burrows serving up your popcorn.

With his aim look for half your popcorn to make it in the bag and half to end up on the floor.

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Money hungry owners, there's nothing more to it.

These owners don't give a crap about the fans or anyone, they would rather this team keep getting eliminated in the first round instead of going through a rebuild. Notice how it said they will be taking over with the concessions, it's just so these guys can keep on making more money.

Well since the team is always up against the cap saying they would rather get eliminated in the first round to save money is stupid. Good team or bad team they will be paying the same overall amount in player salaries, a good team would be more profitable. Each round is the revenue from up to 4 more home games. Going deep pays big not even adding in the merch sales.

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The money Aquilini is saving in hiring his own food service workers at presumably much lower pay rates can be spent in an off-season free agent spending spree. And the Vancouver Canucks are pleased to announce the signing of...

The Oscars Pizza delivery Guy!!!!
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Finally. Honestly, most of the people working these jobs are vastly underqualified. The service there makes Tim Hortons look speedy. Aramark should have improved the quality of their staff and this wouldn't have happened. Everyone knows the service has been god awful for years yet no improvements and now Aramark is surprised by this?

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1000+ people fired. For sure they are going to hire people and pay them way less. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Meanwhile they will still charge us $8.50 for one can of beer, hell they'll might just make it an even $10 now for 'convenience'. <_<

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That combined with the new liquour laws and there might actually be a reasonable amount of beer to survive the upcoming rebuild.

Now all we need is cheaper tickets and beer. If they don't there's going to be one ugly surprise for ownership in the near future as fans (the bandwagoners that we are to the core) desert en masse. Already at your average game there are thousands of empty seats as people can't even sell their ticket don't even bother to go. In good news scalpers are taking a bath but if they think endless sellouts to people that don't even bother to show up is going to be a fact in the future their's an ugly reality lesson heading their way.

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