Assonet Strawberry Festival 2013
Sunday, June 16th, 2013
This is like the perfect kettle corn gig, even though the Assonet Strawberry Festival isn’t that huge of a deal and not a crazy amount of people come here. It’s basically an arts and crafts festival with a smattering of food. There’s a couple of things going for us: We’re smack dab right in the middle of all the tents AND next to the band stand. There’s a C&W band that plays and a bunch of people end up sitting there listening to the music and watching us pop. We fed a couple of bags to the band and it was pretty funny during the breaks where the entertainment was them eating bags of kettle corn and saying how wonderful it is into the mics. Kettle corn business hint: if there is a band, give them free kettle corn, it’s the best damn publicity you’ll get at the gig.
Because the other tents were surrounding us and so close, you couldn’t avoid the stink we were creating. It’s like shooting a barrel in a school of fish. There weren’t a lot of food options. The best food draw was the fresh strawberry shortcake bowls, I had one and they were yummy. Other than someone making some hamburgers on a grill, that was it for food options. We’ve noticed that if there are too many food options at an event, our sales suffer. On top of everything it only cost like 30 bucks to enter and we didn’t have to pay off any health department inspectors. Perfect weather, we sold about 150 bags. Life was good under the yellow tent today.
