Saturday, May 12, 2012

On the search for a good food cart vendor: flea market events

Our French Flea Markets this summer are going to be epic, I think. The first one is full. I mean, really full: we're using every available inch of space in the gardens to fit everyone in.

But the one thing we are missing is some good food to have on site. One year we had a crêpe maker, and that was so much fun. Not only were the crêpes really delicious (sweet and savory), it was so fitting for our market. If the crêpe guy had only been wearing a beret (and smoking a gauloise), the picture would have been complete. But he's not in the crêpe business anymore, and we're on the search for one good food cart/truck to attend our markets (or several that could rotate). Should be a combo of good breakfasty/lunch/snack/treats, because we have vendors and customers on the premises all day. We're not even sure how many attendees we get per average market, but it's somewhere between 600 and 1,000 hungry shoppers. Might be even more... We're gonna be crushed this summer, no doubt.

Dates for our markets are Saturdays: June 9, July 7, August 4, August 25, and September 15. Market hours are 10-4; vendors start setting up at 7, so reasonable cart hours might be 8-3, or something like that.

Know anyone who might be interested? Email us at Jantiques@bendcable.com. Or come by and talk to us at 120 NE River Mall Ave., in the historic farmhouse across from the north side of Macy's.


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