Festival Food App - would this work?

[BusterBloodvessel]

....and if your business and food offer had been promoted on the events website and social media free of charge so you could take up front orders, if delivery was handled by the event organiser, you wouldn't want to take part?

Possibly, but I'd probably be more focused, and expect the organiser to be more focused, on making the actual event itself successful and getting people there in front of me.

I don't think you get the concept of creating something and making it work. In this case a specific group of vendors dropping into an area for one night only, the group promotion of which adds gravitas that couldn't be achieved by shotgun browsing of Deliveroo.

There is a difference between "making something work" and blindly going into an uphill battle where you need to convince not only customers to get on board, but the vendors and event organisers themselves!

Now I don't know if it will work well enough but I once came up with a similar crazy idea of printing t-shirts with a food offer for a nearby pub printed on the back. Worn by the barmaids, 'Buy a Pizza to take home' promoted with banners and flyers for outsiders to pre order, the concept worked. The biggest problem was, as has been alluded to by someone in an earlier post, that controlling the flow of business was impossible. They only had one Pizza oven!

First of all, buying a pizza or food from a pub to take home isn't a particularly novel concept so you're not trying to come up with something completely new. Secondly, I'd argue that printing some t-shirts in the hope of selling a few extra pizzas is a million miles away from the kind of investment/platform/opportunity that you are envisaging here. Just because you think one idea was "crazy" (personally I'd disagree) and it worked doesn't mean a completely different "crazy" idea will do.


Anyway....I have been (past tense) in the food business, including food vans and selling at events/markets/etc. So probably easier just to answer your original question.

whether those in the food wagon business think it workable?

No.

 

[kulture]

I feel that you have the wrong idea for the app. I recently went to a small festival and the food vendors took orders over the phone and then texted you to come collect when ready, thus skipping the queues . An app where you order and pay up front and the notify you when your food is ready means that you can enjoy the entertainment and not waste your time in a queue. I suspect that event organisers will approve of this as there is no off-site food delivery, and the food vendors would like this as they have a steady order stream and not a bustling queue.

 

[Lucan Unlordly]

Trying to critique your app idea is what your post needs, by negating people's suggestions (especially those with experience in food who have posted), suggests that you don't want to hear any potential issues.

Which is great and appreciated so long as the concept is understood in the first place.

Why post, if you're convinced it will work?

I'm not convinced it will work and welcome your view and everyone else's.

There is a difference between "making something work" and blindly going into an uphill battle where you need to convince not only customers to get on board, but the vendors and event organisers themselves!

A bit like Twitter and Deliveroo then I do have the opportunity to trial it with event organisers should I so wish.

First of all, buying a pizza or food from a pub to take home isn't a particularly novel concept so you're not trying to come up with something completely new.

It was new 25 years ago...

Anyway....I have been (past tense) in the food business, including food vans and selling at events/markets/etc. So probably easier just to answer your original question.

Like I say your feedback is appreciated.

I recently went to a small festival and the food vendors took orders over the phone and then texted you to come collect when ready, thus skipping the queues .

Eureka! This is essentially the same idea but aimed at those in close proximity to, but not actually attending the event.

 

[RandyMarsh]

I'm just wondering how you envisage the delivery side of this is going to work. You have an event in a particular location that lasts (say) two days so you need to recruit a team of delivery drivers from the local area with their own transport who will give up their regular employment to work for you on a gig basis for roughly minimum wage for those two days before (presumably) returning to their regular employment. Is that right?

 

[Lucan Unlordly]

I'm just wondering how you envisage the delivery side of this is going to work. You have an event in a particular location that lasts (say) two days so you need to recruit a team of delivery drivers from the local area with their own transport who will give up their regular employment to work for you on a gig basis for roughly minimum wage for those two days before (presumably) returning to their regular employment. Is that right?

No