Vegan Food Now at TX Rangers Ballpark
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Twalla, Veggie Happy
April 2016

If you want a vegan cart at your ballpark, you need to contact or e-mail the concessions team - http://www.veggiehappy.com/venue_mlb.htm. Don’t just do it once, hoping they will listen: keep e-mailing them. Over two years, I e-mailed our Concessions Manager (Casey) and even brought him vegan food items to try.

This guest post comes from Twalla, volunteer Veggie Happy Manager for the Texas Rangers at Globe Life Park. Twalla has been amazing at opening the door to vegan fare at this ballpark. How did she do it? What are her suggestions to others? Read on.

I am a huge Rangers fan. As soon as they played their last game of 2015, I started counting down the days to opening day for the 2016 season. When the Concessions Manager let me know that there was going to be a vegan cart at the ballpark as of April 4th, the date could not get here fast enough. I had never been so excited for a Monday!

Since it seemed like opening day would never get here, I decided to attend the exhibition games for the first time. They were on Friday, April 1st and Saturday, April 2nd. During those two days, we tried the nachos topped with cheese & chili with meat crumbles as well as the burger with hummus. Both are so good, but the nachos are my favorite! On opening day, I opted for the spinach wrap, which I also enjoyed. (Note: Dave is not vegan, but these were his words,“Those nachos are really good!!”)

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Vegan Burge
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Vegan Nachos

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Vegan Spinach Wrap (without the vegan chicken)

Oh, and this is the shirt I had printed and wore on opening day:

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"VEGAN FOOD" replaced the original "BBQ"

The line for the Ballpark Vegan cart was up to 20 people deep at some points during the game. It was a win for both the cart and our Texas Rangers that day. I was particularly glad to find out that on opening week, more vegan burgers were sold than the Wicked Pig (YES!).

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This family was excited to finally be able to attend a Rangers game with a great selection of ballpark menu options for their vegan family.

If you want a vegan cart at your ballpark, you need to contact or e-mail the concessions team - http://www.veggiehappy.com/venue_mlb.htm. Don’t just do it once, hoping they will listen: keep e-mailing them. Over two years, I e-mailed our Concessions Manager (Casey) and even brought him vegan food items to try. I also created the Facebook page “Veggie Texas Ranger Fans“ to find more like-minded Ranger fans and help show that there was a real demand to meet the supply of vegan-friendly ballpark foods. To quote Casey, I “politely pestered” him and it paid off!

I have also created a Twitter account @veganrangerfans, so I can easily communicate with the Rangers and their concession company Delaware North, as well as fellow Rangers fans. I encourage anyone to use #ballparkvegan and #veggietexasrangerfans when posting their pictures at Ranger games. This will allow me to find their posts on social media and provide feedback to Casey. My next goal is for them to add another cart on the 1st base line, and also vegan churros.

On Saturday, May 14th, we are having a BallPark Vegan Night (check out the promotional flyer below.) We will be seated in Section 320.

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Would love for you to join us, but if you can’t, consider hosting an outing at your own ballpark! 


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