Taste on Broadway 2020
2020 EVENT INFORMATION
Date: Thursday, June 25
Time: 5 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Setup Time: 2 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
KEY DATES
Friday, April 17: Agreement Due
Friday, April 24: Notification of Acceptance/Denial
May 4-8: Promotional Materials Distributed
Friday, May 29: Final restaurant menu changes due
Friday, July 10 : Checks mailed to participants for token reimbursement.
ELIGIBILITY
- Must be a restaurant, food cart or caterer in the Greater Green Bay Area or Fox Cities.
- Products must be reflective of day-to-day standards.
A vendor may be deemed ineligible if:
- Does not meet requirements listed above.
- Restaurant is serving the same style of cuisines as several other event vendors.
- Business is not in good standing from previous On Broadway, Inc. events.On Broadway, Inc. retains the sole right to determine eligibility and participation of vendors.
GENERAL INFORMATION
- Booth Fee: $100 - includes: 10’x 10’ covered tent, tent lighting, restaurant banner, (2) eight-foot tables, (3) 20-amp power drops, (4) tent weights, menu board, plates/bowls, napkins and utensils. *booth fee is non-refundable.
- Fee increases to $150 if application is turned in after April 19 deadline.
- 40% of tokens collected by your restaurant will go to On Broadway, Inc. to support our nonprofit mission to revitalize the Broadway District.
Menu Items
- Limit of three menu items.
- Menu items must be priced at 6 tokens or less.
- Serving size must be two ounces or less (i.e. 1/4 cup, 2-3 bites or golf ball size).
- Vendors are prohibited from selling beverages unless given direct permission from On Broadway, Inc.
Staffing
- Restaurants are responsible for staffing their own booths. On Broadway, Inc. suggests asking family and friends to work in the booths to lower or eliminate labor costs.
- Reminder: Restaurants must serve food until 10 p.m. Have a resupply plan in place to bring in more food as needed.
Rain Plan
- If weather outlooks predict significant rain or storms during the event, Taste will be rescheduled to Thursday, September 10. On Broadway, Inc. staff will contact participants on Wednesday, June 24 if the event is moved to the rain date. If rain is forecasted again on the makeup date, the event will be moved to an indoor location or cancelled.
MARKETING & PROMOTION
Your restaurant name on flyers, social media, event website, email blasts, and press releases all reaching tens ofthousands of people in Northeast Wisconsin.
Day of exposure to a captive audience of 10,000+ people
Over 100,000 impressions and tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of marketing value, creating a large return onyour investment.
Promotional materials provided - digital and print
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Tokens
- Attendees exchange pre-purchased tokens for food items. It is the restaurant’s responsibility to turn intheir tokens before 11 p.m. on the day of the event. On Broadway, Inc. will reimburse the 60% of tokens received that is owed to your restaurant by Friday, July 10 (1 token = $1). The remaining covers the costs to host the event and raises funds for On Broadway’s economic development and vitality efforts.
- All tokens will be collected in a bin provided by On Broadway, Inc.
- Immediately after the event, your bin must be taken to the Restaurant Check In/Check Out area. Make sure that your bin is properly labeled by staff before walking away.
- A representative of the restaurant will sign off for tokens the night of the event. This will give the opportunity for businesses to set up a time to be present when tokens are counted with OnBroadway staff between June 29-July 9.
Set up
Restaurants can set up any time after 2 p.m. on the day of the event.
Booths must be set up by 4:30 p.m.to allow enough time for the health department to perform their inspection. If more time is needed forset up, please let On Broadway know to arrange.
Please check in with event staff upon arrival.
Break down / Clean up
- The public expects that food will be served until 10 p.m. Therefore, break down cannot begin until after10:00 p.m. and must be completed by 12 a.m.
- No vehicular movement is permitted within the eventboundaries until after 10:30 p.m. The street remains closed to through-traffic until 12 a.m.
- Leftover supplies that were provided by OnBroadway should be organized and brought to the check out station. Please do not take these with you.
- Plan to place cardboard or other materials down to prevent grease/oil from spilling. Restaurants are not allowed to dump grease or any other debris on the street or into the curbside stormwater drain at any time. On Broadway will provide a “grey water” dump station if needed.