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Wichita Wingnuts Go Cashless!
First Professional Sports Stadium to go Cashless.
To Use Cash or Not Use Cash?
That is the question...
Fall 2008- SEAT Magazine- Association of Luxury Suite Directors
Cashless is a term that is used more and more these days. In an era where most people pay for goods and services by credit and/or debit cards, it was only a matter of time until the consumer would need a prepaid card to pay for many of the concessions and novelties at a stadium or arena. For complete article, click here.
Wichita Wingnuts Welcome Wireless
Summer 2008- National Case Study
It?s baseball in America: A sunny afternoon, a cold beer, some Cracker Jacks, and eighteen guys playing a game on a wide field of green grass. And at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium, home of the Wichita Wingnuts, the game has become even more simple and more perfect. For complete article, click here.
The Cashless Sports Venue
- American First-
July 2008- Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal
On May 7, 2008, the Wichita Wingnuts of the American Association of Professional Baseball opened their 2008 season completely cashless. Oddly enough, in this case, being cashless is proving a real boost to the bottom line. You see, back in May, Lawrence-Dumont Stadium, the Wingnuts home ballpark, became the nation's first true cashless professional sports venue... For complete article, click here.
Wingnuts' cashless concessions system slowly winning over its baseball fans
June 13, 2008- Wichita Sports Business Journal
Lawrence-Dumont Stadium opened in 1934, decades before credit and debit cards, when cash was king.
A 74-year-old stadium made mostly of concrete can hamper efforts to make the venue more technology-friendly. For complete article, click here.
KWCH- Channel 12 News
May 9, 2008
The Wingnuts may be a new team but their games have all the tradition sounds of summer baseball, plus a few additions. Sounds of venders selling concession cards can be heard as you walk into Lawrence Dumont Stadium. For complete article, click here.
Wingnuts first team in the U.S. to operate a cash-free ballpark
February 29, 2008- Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal
The Wichita Wingnuts are telling their fans their money is no good at the ballpark.
In an effort to speed concession lines, reduce employee theft and make a little history in the process, the Wingnuts will this season become the first U.S. sports team to operate a cashless facility. For complete article, click here.
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