Established Restaurant Owner Joins Hot Tots Food & Beverage Team<\/b><\/p>\n
Shane Cornelius, Co-Owner of Butterhorn & Big Baseball fan, to join Hot Tots as Food & Beverage Consultant in 2024<\/b><\/p>\n
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October 17, 2023 Minot, ND) – Shane Cornelius, Co-Owner of popular Bismarck restaurant Butterhorn (with his wife Stephanie Miller), joins the Hot Tots as a Food & Beverage Consultant ahead of the 2024 season. Cornelius and his wife have spent the last two decades perfecting dishes and creating memorable experiences for diners.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cTo say we\u2019re excited to work with Shane is an understatement,\u201d said Hot Tots Owner and CEO John Bollinger. \u201cFood and beverage is such an important part of the ballpark experience and bringing in someone like Shane to work with our amazing team brings an exciting new perspective I know will add tremendous value to our fans.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cornelius will be assisting the Hot Tots team by helping to refine systems and processes that make their multiple all-inclusive areas feel efficient and friendly.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cOn our biggest nights, for about an hour and a half we\u2019re the biggest restaurant in Minot, serving over 1,000 people,\u201d said Hot Tots General Manager and Managing Partner Monica Blake. \u201cWe think for our first year we did a great job, but adding Shane will help elevate the experience for our fans and we can\u2019t wait to have him going into year two.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cornelius says this new role allows him to bring his dining and hospitality expertise to a sport he\u2019s always loved.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m super excited to be a part of a baseball team. I grew up on a cattle ranch in a little town and got a few channels on our television and one of those was WGN with the Chicago Cubs,\u201d Cornelius said. \u201cI\u2019ve been a Cubs fan forever. I cried when they won the World Series. There\u2019s just something about the memories a great ballpark experience can create and now I get to be a part of creating that for families and friends at Larks games. It\u2019s a special opportunity for me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cornelius\u2019 will focus on creating unique and memorable experiences with classic ballpark foods at the all-inclusive areas and concession stand.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThere are so many ideas that we have to get started and a lot of it is perception,\u201d Cornelius said. \u201cWhen fans are going through the lines, we want it to be a personable experience with the sound of food, the smell of a dish, the visually appealing factors and great service. It\u2019s about elevating the classic ballpark food experience fans already expect and making them go \u2018WOW.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Hot Tots will start their second season in the Northwoods League next summer with 36 home <\/span>games at Corbett Field. The best experience a fan can get at the ballpark is by joining the Dish and becoming a Hot Dish Member. Members get tickets to five games, a jersey, free all-inclusive food and beverage for three innings, and more starting at just $25 per game. Fans can visit hottotsbaseballl.com for more information.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Established Restaurant Owner Joins Hot Tots Food & Beverage Team Shane Cornelius, Co-Owner of Butterhorn & Big Baseball fan, to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":21101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-permanentslider"],"yoast_head":"\n