StadiumGigs is an independent site about working at major stadiums and arenas in the United States. We publish real job postings alongside venue profiles, city guides, role descriptions, hospitality-operator backgrounders, and long-form analysis for anyone curious about the people and companies that run the country’s largest sports and entertainment venues.
As of the last review, the site covers 34 venues across 24 states, 6 hospitality operators, 25 job postings, and 3 host-city guides.
Why this site exists
Stadiums are some of the biggest employers in their cities. A single NFL Sunday at MetLife Stadium, SoFi Stadium, or AT&T Stadium puts thousands of people to work — cooks, servers, security officers, ticket takers, ushers, EMTs, suite attendants, runners, dishwashers, and dozens of other roles most fans never think about. Mega-events like the Super Bowl, the College Football Playoff, and the 2026 FIFA World Cup add another layer of seasonal hiring on top of an already complex calendar.
Despite all of that, the public information about working in a stadium is scattered: buried inside operator career portals, mentioned briefly in local news stories, or hidden behind generic job-board templates.
Worse, the most important fact about a stadium job is usually the hardest to find. At most venues, the team does not employ the people who work there. Food, beverage, premium service, and kitchens are run by a contracted hospitality operator; security, cleaning, and parking are separate vendors again. Applying to the team for a concessions job is the single most common mistake we see, and it costs people weeks. Every venue page on this site opens by naming who actually hires.
We are not a staffing agency, an applicant tracking system, or a recruiter unless a specific posting says otherwise. Our job pages are real postings, and our editorial work adds the context that bare listings usually leave out.
What we cover
- Stadiums and arenas. Each venue page names the hospitality operator and the other employers on site, sets out the roles and local pay context, explains when the hiring waves happen, and covers ownership, capacity, tenants, and the events calendar. See the interactive stadium map.
- Host cities. City-level pages collect the venues, operators, transit options, and seasonal hiring patterns for a given metro area.
- Hospitality companies. Profiles of the operators behind stadium food and beverage — Aramark, Levy Restaurants, Legends Hospitality, Oak View Group, Sodexo Live, and Bon Appetit Management Company — covering how each one hires and what it does when it takes over a venue.
- Job postings and role context. Real stadium job postings with plain-English descriptions of what the work looks like, what to expect on event days, and what hiring managers tend to look for.
- Industry news. When a major venue switches its concessionaire, we cover what changed and, specifically, what it meant for the people working there — including whether the workforce had a successorship agreement protecting its terms.
- Long-form insights. Bigger features on the industry — for example, our guide to the 11 U.S. host stadiums of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
The editorial team
Articles carry a named byline. Directory pages carry a last-verified date instead, because a listing is compiled and kept current rather than authored in the way an article is. The people behind both:
Marcus T. Halloran — Editor-in-Chief & Founder
Marcus T. Halloran is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of StadiumGigs. He spent six years on the venue and media beat at Sports Business Journal, where he reported on concessionaire transitions, naming-rights agreements, and the labor model behind major U.S. arenas. Before that he covered local government and public-stadium financing for a regional newspaper group in the Northeast. Marcus built StadiumGigs to put the people who actually run stadiums — cooks, ushers, security officers, suite attendants — at the center of the story instead of the margins. He edits every published page and signs off on all operator and venue listings.
- B.S. Journalism, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
- Former staff reporter, Sports Business Journal (venue & media beat, 2014–2020)
- Member, Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE)
- Contributor, Pollstar venue-operations coverage
Dana Whitfield — Senior Staff Writer, Venue Operations
Dana Whitfield spent nearly a decade working inside a major NFC East stadium, rotating through guest services, premium hospitality, and event operations across NFL seasons, college bowl games, and stadium concerts. She holds a hospitality degree from UNLV and a ServSafe Food Protection Manager credential. At StadiumGigs she writes the role-description and “what the work actually looks like” sections that applicants rarely get from a bare job listing. Her firsthand event-day experience is the backbone of the site’s role guides.
- B.S. Hospitality Administration, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)
- 9 seasons in event-day operations at a major NFC East stadium (guest services & premium hospitality)
- Certified Guest Service Professional (CGSP), American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute
- ServSafe Food Protection Manager certification
Reuben Castillo — Research Editor & Fact-Checker
Reuben Castillo runs the fact-check desk at StadiumGigs. Before joining the publication he spent more than a decade as a newsroom research librarian at a major U.S. metro daily, where he specialized in public records, corporate filings, and on-record source verification. He reviews every published page against primary sources — venue websites, operator press releases, SEC and municipal filings, and established trade publications — before it goes live, and maintains the source log that backs each venue and operator profile.
- Master of Library Science (M.L.S.), University of Maryland
- 11 years in editorial research and reference verification
- Former newsroom research librarian, major U.S. metro daily
- Member, American Library Association (ALA)
Janelle Okafor — Editorial Board, Industry Reviewer
Janelle Okafor is an 18-year veteran of stadium and arena hospitality. She rose to Regional Vice President at one of the three largest U.S. concessionaires, overseeing F&B programs across a portfolio of NFL, MLB, and NCAA venues. Now an independent consultant, she sits on the StadiumGigs editorial board as the senior industry reviewer, reading operator and venue profiles for technical accuracy on staffing models, licensing, and F&B operations before they are published. She does not represent any operator on the site.
- 18 years in stadium and arena hospitality, including Regional VP at a top-three U.S. concessionaire
- Certified Hospitality Educator (CHE), American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute
- ServSafe certified; former member, National Association of Concessionaires (NAC) advisory group
- B.S. Hotel & Restaurant Management, University of Houston
Theo Lindqvist — Staff Writer, World Cup & Mega-Events
Theo Lindqvist is a freelance sports journalist who has covered three World Cups and two Olympic Games, reporting from host cities on venue readiness, staffing, and tournament logistics. He leads StadiumGigs’ mega-events coverage, including the 2026 FIFA World Cup host-stadium guides, and brings on-the-ground context from tournaments most U.S. venues will only host once in a generation.
- B.A. International Relations, University of Washington
- Freelance journalist covering three World Cups (2014, 2018, 2026) and two Olympic Games
- Former stringer, international wire service (sport & venues)
Editorial accountability rests with the publication. Contributions from freelance writers, hospitality operators, and venue insiders are welcome; any guest-authored piece carries an explicit byline at the top with the author’s preferred attribution.
How we work
Editorial principles
- Source from the venue, the operator, and reputable reporting first. We rely on the official sites of each stadium, team, and hospitality company; on filings and press releases; and on established trade publications such as Sports Business Journal. We cite or link to sources when it helps a reader verify a fact.
- Be specific. A page that says “many roles are available” is useless. We name the specific operator at a specific venue, the specific roles that operator hires for, the local wage floor, and the specific events that drive demand.
- Be honest about what we don’t know. Stadium contracts and hiring practices change. When something is uncertain or rapidly evolving — a mid-season operator transition, an unconfirmed construction phase, whether a given classification is union-covered — we say so on the page rather than guessing.
- Update content when the facts change. When a venue switches operators or hosts a new headline event, we revisit affected pages and append a dated update note.
How listings and pages are produced
StadiumGigs is a directory, not a magazine, so the production model is built around keeping real data current rather than publishing opinion.
- Job postings are real listings. We take role, schedule, pay context, and application details from the hiring employer’s official posting or career portal, then add plain-English context about the venue, the operator, and what the work actually looks like on an event day. The official application path is always linked.
- Venue and operator profiles are compiled from the stadium’s, team’s, and hospitality company’s official sources — fact sheets, media guides, press releases, and public filings — plus established trade-press reporting where it adds context.
- Pay figures are reported as posted rates or observed market ranges, always with the statutory minimum wage for that jurisdiction given alongside, and always with a note to confirm the number in the official listing. We do not publish estimated salaries as if they were offers.
- City guides and long-form insights are written by the StadiumGigs editorial team and carry a named author byline.
- AI assistance. We use AI-assisted tools to speed up early research and drafting — summarising a long press release, formatting a fast-facts list — but every page is edited by a human before it goes live. AI is a tool here, not the author.
How we keep listings current
Stadium contracts and job postings go stale quickly, so every directory page carries a “last verified” date and is re-checked on a set cadence:
- Job postings — re-checked at least every 30 days and on the posting’s close date; filled or expired postings are removed.
- Venue and operator profiles — re-verified at least every 6 months, and immediately when a concessionaire transition, naming-rights deal, or major renovation is announced.
- City guides — re-verified at least every 6 months, or when a venue in the market changes operator.
- Blog and insights — reviewed when the underlying facts change, with a dated update note appended to the article.
When the facts have not changed, we update the “last verified” date only. When they have, we update the content.
Corrections
If you spot a factual error, an out-of-date operator listing, a filled job still showing as open, or a broken link, please tell us. Reports that include the specific URL and a verifiable source get handled fastest. We fix them and credit the correction.
Who runs StadiumGigs
StadiumGigs is an independent, U.S.-based publication maintained by the editorial team named above. Corrections requests, source tips, and partnership inquiries all reach the same editorial inbox via the Contact page, and we respond from there.
The site runs on Jekyll and is hosted on GitHub Pages.
What StadiumGigs is not
To set expectations clearly:
- We are not a staffing agency or recruiter unless a specific posting says otherwise.
- We are not an employer of record for a stadium role unless a specific posting says otherwise.
- We are not an official representative of any stadium, team, league, or hospitality company.
- The presence of an operator or venue on the site is not an endorsement of that organization as an employer; it is an editorial inclusion based on the venue’s prominence.
- Advertising is delivered by Google AdSense. Ads are not endorsements, and advertisers have no influence over what we cover or what we say. See our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
How to reach us
The best way to send a tip, a correction, a guest-post pitch, or a partnership inquiry is the Contact page. If you’d rather get updates passively, our newsletter — sign up from the form at the bottom of any page — ships a short digest whenever there’s something new.
Thanks for reading.