Concert Side Food Concessions

I wonder if the concert side food concessions area might be transformed into a food truck festival? 

The PFF is already contracting with mobile vendors. 

Food truck festivals are a huge huge draw with people traveling just to attend that element alone - when paired with music and crafts, it could become a very welcome addition to day-ticket sales.   Important to negotiate the fees with the vendors to ensure a variety of price points.  Important to welcome a variety of vendors and allow for some to only attend one or two days if that's what they can staff.

You need to provide food options - why not make the food options part of the draw and reach out to a new market?

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Is there a place for seriously folky stuff like food vendors in crafts? I can imagine kettle corn and pie sales, pickle makers, and all that stuff that does so well at big craft fairs.  

Why is there no Mr Softee truck?  What are we even doing? (kidding)

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I'll admit I've done none of the legwork around this.  There may very well be ordinances and restrictions to take into consideration.

Camping Side Food Concessions

PFS is the charity.  What if the PFF volunteers managed a larger scale food concession on the camping side?  Burgers and dogs, hoagies, salads, and a small variety of dishes.  Snacks, drinks, and breakfast.  Food concessions can be an excellent source of profits, particularly if you add a pre-packed and snack element, practice daily inventory management, and have committee chairs watch the numbers like a hawk.  

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What if, as a perk, the volunteers were able to get all their meals from this concession for cost?  If a volunteer can get a $2 burger/dog/sandwich/pasta/wrap and $1 salad/fruit/veggie/cookie and $.50 soda/coffee - and choose the food they are ordering - they might even prefer it to what the volunteer food tent used to provide. 

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But, yeah, to do this, the volunteer food tent volunteers would shift from the concert side to the camp side and from for-free to for-profit.  The campers who weren't volunteers would of course pay a price for concessions that would reap a profit for the PFS.  The volunteer menu would be limited and economical (although they'd be free to order more fancy full-price items).   

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The PFF already budgets for a kitchen setup.  They already have volunteers in the food-prep realm.  I'd say, shift it to the camp side and make it a profit generator.

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Volunteer Food Tent

The space once allotted to the volunteer food tent would be an incredible expansion of crafts.  See crafts page.