Provider of food and catering services for recreational facilities in the United States and Canada. The company's services include food and beverage concession, catering services in sports and other entertainment facilities, as well as banquet catering and food court operations in convention centers and in-facility restaurants. What you see here scratches the surface. This information is available in the PitchBook Platform.
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Log in Request a free trial. Request a free trial Log in. Centerplate Overview Update this profile. Founded Employees 30, Financing Rounds Investments 6. Centerplate General Information Description Provider of food and catering services for recreational facilities in the United States and Canada. It offers services related to concessions, catering, reception, safety, maintenance and cleaning and facilities and equipment management.
It operates in 80 countries and has , employees locally. About full-timers work out of its Gaithersburg headquarters. Please Sign In and use this article's on page print button to print this article.
The company's first big success came at Chicago's World's Fair, where his Automatic machines dispensed affordable sandwiches, cakes, pies, ice cream, candy, and cigarettes to the visiting masses. With Leverone at the helm, the first major national retail organization of its kind flourished in World War II by providing food service to workers at defense plants.
Canteen landed its first major league baseball park concessions contract when the American League Athletics moved from Philadelphia to their new stadium in Kansas City in , and established the New York Yankees and Yankee Stadium as clients in The company changed its name to Canteen Corporation in Canteen continued to be headquartered in Chicago and, in the late s and early s, like many other vending businesses, shifted its focus to nonvended foodservices in fields such as restaurants, airline catering, fast-food franchises, and hotel and recreation area operations.
In , Canteen's Nationwide Concessions division operated in sports stadiums and recreation areas such as Yankee Stadium and Yellowstone National Park. Citing antitrust regulations, the U. As the industrial decline of the United States in the s unfolded, Canteen saw its vending business feeding workers in the smokestack market diminish. By mid-decade, Canteen increasingly provided onsite foodservice to white-collar workers in corporate settings, and greatly expanded its food sales to leisure and recreation markets, and institutions such as schools, prisons, and hospitals.
Canteen was now operating a number of different stadium concessions operations including its Volume Services unit, acquired when it bought Interstate United Corp. In , TW Holdings Inc. The company now known as Centerplate was officially founded in when a group of top-level managers of Volume Services, Inc. The sale of Volume Services by Flagstar was announced in November and completed by December 31, In Volume Services solidified its regional base of business in the Carolinas.
With 12 separate accounts, ranging from major amphitheaters to minor league baseball facilities, Volume Services was the largest concessions operator in the Carolinas when it secured a new NFL concessions contract for the expansion Carolina Panthers and their under-construction Carolinas Stadium in Charlotte. By the mids, Volume Services found that it took quite a bit more than cold beer and warm hot dogs to impress a crowd, and once the novelty of nationally branded pizza and hamburger products had worn off, the company turned to the concept of regionalized branding.
When the football season started, new menu items for fans included Carolina-style barbecue carved fresh from spit-roasted pork for Carolina Panthers fans, polenta-dusted fried Calamari and grilled Ahi tuna on a sourdough roll in San Francisco's Candlestick Park and fried Grouper Sandwiches at Houlihan's Stadium in Tampa Bay. In the same year, Volume Services helped design and construct an automobile-themed minor league baseball park and menu for the Lugnuts and their new Oldsmobile Park in Lansing, Michigan.
In June , the firm landed a plus-year concessions, merchandise, and suite catering contract with the San Francisco Giants that would begin in when the team moved into the newly built Pacific Bell Park. Volume Services had been serving food and beverages to Giants' fans in Candlestick Park since Sometimes partnering with local companies, the company by the end of the year had a total of 90 contracts, including retail operations and concessions agreements at outdoor amphitheaters such as Hardee's Pavilion at Walnut Creek in North Carolina, and parks such as the Los Angeles Equestrian Center.
Volume Services nearly doubled its size in August when it acquired Service America Corporation, a rival company with a focus on convention center concessions.
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