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The Pita Pit opened around September of last year, so this was the first year it was open for Fanime.  :D

I can't speak for the hotels but I can tell you about SJCC.  Our escalators have sensors that will shut them down if they sense something with wheels.  It's a safety measure to keep people from taking strollers on them.  But it means that folks with those wheelie bags can shut them down as well.  I know that there is a way to miss tripping the sensor because I've seen it done but why try to go around a safety feature?  Anyway, we restart the escalators as soon as someone from the building is notified.
   Our elevators do sometimes have to be shut down because of an issue now and then but we call the maintenance tech out as soon as possible when there is an event the size of FanimeCon in the building.
As for people getting stuck, we used to have one security guard that would go and check the elevator if there was a report of a problem and he would wind up getting stuck.  Just him and no one else.   All elevators are required to have a phone line that will allow a person to call for help. In our elevators, we have a button that you press and it automatically calls our security office.  It has to be virtually hands-free to meet ADA requirements.
    I know this is probably too much info but I thought it was better for the worried folks to know.

Hey folks,
Just so you know, the Starbucks in SJCC is not officially operated by Starbucks.  It is operated by Centerplate (the Food and Beverage company at SJCC) and is a licensee of Starbucks.  That's it looks, tastes and smells like a Starbucks but the prices and hours are different.