I am staffing a 3rd year event and we are having great difficulty securing a vendor or business to provide food. I am looking for any suggestions that anyone may have! Has anyone used the "Taste of _____(your community)______ where local businesses/vendors pay a fee and provide food? If so, can you share your fee structure and any supporting docs? I look forward to any recommendations anyone may have! THANKS!
Hi There, our Food Chair is one of those jobs that has the most work. We start making the ask to all the Restaurants in town early. We usually have a plan for each meal and try and get restaurants to come up with an item that fits in that plan. This is our 12 year and we have always provided all the food for all of the Participants for free. This year we will be charging for the first time. We will have the following meals:
Dinner- 500 hot dogs provided by one restaurant, 800 hamburgers provided by another, bun, and condements by others. Salads, coleslaw and chips by other vendors.
Midnight Pizza party- We have approx. 20 pizza restaurants who donate between 5 and 20 pizzas each.
Breakfast- Pancakes made by a local community organization, and bagels donated by local Dunkin Donuts, Starbucks and other coffee places.
It's a lot of work, but well worth it! Good luck
March 28, 2008 - 9:12pm login or register to post comments
Ann Wheet
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Taste of Relay
We haven't done this at our event. (We, too, let the teams raise money by selling food at the event. I look forward to some of the food that the teams bring back every year.) I do know of one team who did this as a fundraiser. What they did was ask the restaurants and food shops in their communities to contribute to the event by coming and serving some of their specialties. Attendees at the event paid $10 and got 10 tickets to sample foods at the different booths. (And, they were just samples... not full sized anything.) There was no charge to the vendors as they were donating the food. It was a win-win for both groups. The vendors get additional community exposure and Relay for Life get the proceeds from the event. Of course, this adds work to the event. If you have enough time, I'd consider mentioning this to your teams to see if they'd be willing to bring food items to sell.
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March 28, 2008 - 4:20pm login or register to post comments
ddrelay
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Food as a Fundraiser
We have a lot of food at our Relay, but our teams do it at their camp-site. It is a great fundraiser for the teams and it gives you food out at the event. Then the teams are in charge of the selling whatever food they want and you don't have to hassel a business to provide food and all the money goes to the event.
March 27, 2008 - 9:02pm login or register to post comments
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