Wicked Smoke BBQ
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So if you are planning for a large event, say a state fair where there will be alot of vendors and a lot of people do you still plan for 20% of total folks to visit your trailer?
I figured the location would play a big part of it. If you take that 21,700 and divide it by 7 days then that's 3100 people a day. I will have a Ole Hickory EL-ED/X smoker so the capacity shouldn't be a issue.What I've seen while strolling around big events like a fair is that people gravitate to the vendors with the biggest wall of claims to fame. Your sales will be based on this and your location. If you are close to a big name vendor or next to the hog barn you will suffer. I'd expect more like 3-5% of attendance but cook for 6-8% to start with you have several days to unload any leftovers. 5% of 427,000 is over 21,000 servings. 21,000 6oz pork sandwiches will take 15,750 ponds of pork butt. Do you have that capacity and staff?
No, not hardly. It's said that 25% will eat so you divide the number of food vendors into the equation. 10,000 people 2,500 will eat. If there are 6 food vendors 2,500 divided by 6 = plan to serve 416 people.
I'll add that I never did state fair size crowds when I vended more than I do now. Most of the crowds would be 8,00 or less and those numbers always worked well for me.
Thanks. I'm using the numbers from fairs to put into a business plan so I wanted to make sure I was close to what one might see. I haven't even looked at smaller events and all the catering we do also. From a 5 state perspective there would be close to 1.5 million total people out of those 5 states. Even if only 5% visited your trailer out of that total number that is singing a lot of good food.
Not sure I understand what you are saying. Are you thinking that 5% of 1.5 mil people from 5 states will visit your trailer?
I *THINK* he's saying that of those fairs, they will have a total of 1.5MM visitors to those fairs, and he's planning on 5% of that hitting his trailer.
I could be wrong. I am thinking about getting into some vending, so I'm just following this for knowledge.
A total of 1.5mil ppl for 5 state fairs?? That's like a week for Mn state Fair