Colts fans, tailgaters react to Stadium food safety issues

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Food safety inspectors are at Lucas Oil Stadium for Sunday night's game making sure conditions are clean.

This past week, word came out that health inspectors have found food safety violations in the stadium's kitchens, including mouse droppings and dead mice.

24-Hour News 8 spoke with tailgaters to see how confident they are about buying food inside the stadium now.

It may take a while for some fans to feel confident about the food here again, even though the stadium's food service company has taken a series of steps to clean things up.

News 8 was inside the stadium Friday as a spokesperson from that company, Centerplate, conducted a tour of one of the areas where food is kept. Before that, the Marion County Health Department said inspections at the stadium led to 42 citations, and nearly $4,000 in fines.
asked tailgaters this afternoon what their reaction was when they heard that news.

Tailgater Glen Vigar reacted to the news,"(It's) a little scary. I mean it's a brand new building. I wouldn't expect it."

Vigar said that he wouldn't eat the food there anymore.

"I don't know I usually get something," Colts fan Jennifer Glesing said. "My husband eats the peanuts. I usually get a pretzel. So I don't know I haven't seen anything out of order in anything I've ever gotten."

Centerplate said it planned to have 15 of its own food safety inspectors inside the stadium Sunday to make sure conditions are clean.

24-Hour News 8 had asked to be inside the stadium to see how that was going, but a Centerplate spokesperson denied that request.