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Parks department to run YFAC concessions after split with Beanstalk; staff projects smaller operating shortfall
Summary
After Beanstalk Coffee and Snow gave 60-day notice, Norman parks staff said the department will operate the Young Family Athletic Center concession stand, plan to reopen in October, and project revenues that could narrow the facility's operating deficit.
Jay Solson, Norman parks and recreation director, told the council the parks department will operate the Young Family Athletic Center (YFAC) concession stand after the city and Beanstalk Coffee and Snow mutually agreed to separate. “We plan on as a parks department to operate the new concession stand, which will reopen in October,” Solson said.
Solson said Beanstalk received a 60-day written notice on June 23 as provided by the contract, and staff view the separation as mutual and not indicative of a failed partnership. He described the YFAC’s first full fiscal year of operations and presented preliminary financial estimates: a reported operating loss in the first full year of about…
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