Tailgate Catering in Fayetteville, AR: Cost, Game-Day Timing and the Campus Rules

Show notes

Two hosts walk through tailgate food for Razorback game days in Fayetteville, Arkansas: what a person costs, why the handoff has to land before the street limits, what the campus tailgating policy says about food, and how one fan stepped away from the grill, with a look at Rx Catering NWA.

Read the full article:
https://rxcatering.net/blogs/news/tailgate-catering-fayetteville-ar-game-day

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFcok2p0kTI

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Rx Catering NWA
121 West Township Street, Fayetteville, AR 72703
Phone: (479) 502-9879
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Full transcript

Dakota: Welcome to the Hometown Trades Journal. I'm Dakota, and Roger's with me.

Roger: Hi, Dakota. This week it's tailgate food in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Two home games are left at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium: November fourteenth against South Carolina, and November twenty-eighth against L-S-U. The old rule is that whoever hosts also cooks.

Dakota: So who takes the cooking off the host?

Roger: A Fayetteville kitchen: the crew at R-X Catering N-W-A. The team is former pharmaceutical representatives and executive chefs, with sixty-plus years of combined experience. They price a tailgate by the person, so the host's first job is a headcount.

Dakota: Okay. What does one person run?

Roger: Meals start at these prices, with a ten-person minimum. Chicken strips with dipping sauce, three per person, start at eight dollars and forty-nine cents. B-B-Q Pork, a complete meal with potato salad, coleslaw, baked beans and buns, starts at fourteen ninety-nine. Beef brisket starts at sixteen ninety-nine. Banana pudding shooters are three dollars and fifty cents each.

Dakota: And what suits a crowd standing around with drinks?

Roger: Handheld food: the chicken strips, the sandwich trays, a box lunch. A group seated under a tent can take a hot plate, like the B-B-Q Pork, the Hamburger Bar or the brisket. Office lunches arrive in insulated carriers, ready to serve, and events get chafing dishes set up on site, so tell the kitchen which one you need.

Dakota: Then game day itself. What's the clock?

Roger: The stadium has hosted Razorback football since nineteen thirty-eight and holds about seventy-six thousand. The university's game-day pages say street limits and traffic control begin three to four hours before kickoff, and free shuttles start three hours before. A handoff time has to land well ahead of that. Dakota, what do the university's rules say about food?

Dakota: The current policy, revised September eighth, twenty twenty-five, allows personal tailgating across campus on game day. Reserved spaces sit in Victory Village and The Gardens, and the Baum-Walker Stadium East lot is open to public tailgating with no approval. On food, the policy prohibits selling it, and a commercial tailgate needs university approval. A host feeding friends and family should read it for their own spot.

Roger: Does the crew deliver right to the tailgate spot?

Dakota: That depends on where the spot is, so call before the order is final. Every dish on the website can be ordered and delivered, but they don't promise delivery inside a stadium lot. They ask for twenty-four hours' notice, and same-day deliveries can be accommodated if the schedule allows.

Roger: What did that look like for one Razorback fan?

Dakota: Cody fed twenty-five friends and family at a private tailgate spot at a home game this season. He'd always run the grill himself, and it cost him the first hour with his guests. This time he called the crew at R-X Catering N-W-A on the Thursday before the game.

Roger: What went on the order, and what was the bill?

Dakota: Twenty-five B-B-Q Pork meals and twenty-five banana pudding shooters. At fourteen ninety-nine a meal and three fifty a shooter, that's four hundred sixty-two dollars and twenty-five cents for the food, before tax. He set the handoff well ahead of the street limits and spent the morning with his people instead of at the grill.

Roger: What should a host with a game coming up do first?

Dakota: Count the guests, pick a handoff time well ahead of the street limits, and call the kitchen by Thursday. The price then comes from one multiplication: the per-person cost times the heads.

Roger: That's tailgate food for Razorback game days in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and the crew to call is R-X Catering N-W-A. You'll find them at R-X catering dot net, or by phone at four seven nine, five oh two, nine eight seven nine.

Dakota: That's the Hometown Trades Journal. New episodes every week. Thanks for listening.