The Vegan Food Festival is an annual event that takes place in a green market located in Santa Cruz, Trinidad and Tobago. In this festival, various Vegan-Friendly Businesses and Vendors come together and set up their respective stalls and sell their items to patrons from all over the country. This was their second year hosting this event and Cynfull Living's first year part taking.
Preparing for the event-
So we've been borrowing/purchasing all the equipment that hopefully would have us prepared for anything that happens at the event which took us about two weeks to do. On the day of we didn't have everything that we would have liked to have but at that point, we just had to keep it moving.
On the day of -
The day of was like a hurricane I didn't know was coming, from the night before we were at our local market that supplies for restaurants and stuff, but those vendors are out from like 12 am - 6 am for the restaurants to get fresh produce before they open. So we were out at the market from 12 am getting 80 pounds of cauliflower for the vegan wings. Oh btw this was our menu for the festival.
So after we got the cauliflower at like 2 am in the morning, we went home, took a power nap and got up at 8 am and literally from the time we got up it was just pace.
We went getting all the last minute ingredients, purchasing last minute items, prepping all the produce for the fest, doing our on the day marketing, cleaning pans and pots, making sauces, literally a million things at once. Oh and might I add that the vendors had to be set up from 2 pm as the event started at 4. We left home at 3:30, we reached the fest at 4:30 while it already started and had to set up one time, mind you they also gave us a pretty shitty stall because everyone else had these nice wooden stalls with lighting and cord outlets etc already in them and we got a tent -_- For no reason at all, like we paid the fee as the vendors in the wooden stall and everything, so we just had to work within our contraints because we had no time to study that.
After taking about 20 minutes to get everything going, we instantly had lines, we were selling out! Our stall had lines even after the fest was finished at 9, we had people lines until about 10pm and we had to stop serving because the event coordinators had to ask us too :(
Here are some pics that we got!
It was honestly a great feeling to see how much our hard work paid off, it was something I went to bed smiling about.
In the end, we ended up having one of the best performing stalls in the festival, everyone loved it, we got great reviews and we're currently preparing for a next food festival but this one is not a vegan festival, it's just a regular food festival but it's much larger in size so that's going to be interesting!
Are there any advice or tips you could give us for the future events like this, especially for the non vegan festival? If you have any thoughts that would be helpful feel free to comment below!
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