TROY, Mich. – At the end of the night for most high school concession stands, someone takes home a small lockbox with minimal profits.
But at Athens High School in Troy, the operation they’ve built on game nights has become a true revenue stream, and it’s paying off for the entire athletic department.
On game nights, the big-time, seven-grill operation begins two or three hours before kickoff in preparation for a busy night -- and they operate even past the game, closing up around 10 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
Sure, they have the usuals -- hot dogs, popcorn, pizza -- but there’s so much more. They’re serving up specialties like Philly cheese steaks, pulled pork sandwiches, double cheeseburgers and more. It pays off too, and not with a check for a few hundred bucks to the school -- the operation churns out tens of thousands of dollars that get used for first-class amenities in the athletic department.
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