If you didn't make it to the Grilled Cheese Championship this past weekend, I encourage you to get out and attend next year! The event is great for people of all ages and gets bigger and better every year.
Besides being a free event, with a great competition, food trucks, beverages, and vendors; the event is great for me. Not only does it give me a chance to sell cupcakes, it gets my name out there to people who may not have heard of me, I get to meet and connect with people and businesses, and watch people get excited about my cupcakes.
This year I was lucky enough to have a large space to work with so I had plenty of room to display my cupcakes, display shirts, bags, and my menus, as well has having space for all my to-go packs. I brought some of my most popular flavors to the event: vanilla raspberry, chocolate peanut butter, cookies and cream, chocolate chip cookie dough, and s'more. I didn't take any cheesecake flavors like I did last year just because I didn't want to have to worry about refrigeration...if only I would have known the concrete floor was still going to be frozen! It would have been the perfect built in ice pack!
My husband helped me set up and since there's not much for him to do with the way I set up as vendor, he left because I didn't think I would need help...wrong!
Before the event even started I got the chance to talk to some other vendors, local business people and sell cupcakes to vendors and competitors. Once the doors opened to the public, the craziness set in. It wasn't like the open day craziness since most of the people coming through weren't getting packs to go; they were just getting the cupcakes to eat right then and there. So it was more of a constant but quick line.
Thankfully, my mom stopped in and stuck around which helped me big time! If we got a break in the long line of people, she would hold my containers for me to restock. Without her there I would have been balancing them or running back and forth from one end of the table to other.
I loved, loved, loved meeting so many new people, people who had never heard of me before, as well as seeing the loyal customers. I got a lot of stories from people telling me they'd had my cupcakes at a wedding or other event, or how they had been trying to stop at an open day but I was always sold out by time they made it. So I'm glad they were able to get cupcakes at the Grilled Cheese Championship!
This year I was lucky enough to have a large space to work with so I had plenty of room to display my cupcakes, display shirts, bags, and my menus, as well has having space for all my to-go packs. I brought some of my most popular flavors to the event: vanilla raspberry, chocolate peanut butter, cookies and cream, chocolate chip cookie dough, and s'more. I didn't take any cheesecake flavors like I did last year just because I didn't want to have to worry about refrigeration...if only I would have known the concrete floor was still going to be frozen! It would have been the perfect built in ice pack!
My husband helped me set up and since there's not much for him to do with the way I set up as vendor, he left because I didn't think I would need help...wrong!
Before the event even started I got the chance to talk to some other vendors, local business people and sell cupcakes to vendors and competitors. Once the doors opened to the public, the craziness set in. It wasn't like the open day craziness since most of the people coming through weren't getting packs to go; they were just getting the cupcakes to eat right then and there. So it was more of a constant but quick line.
Thankfully, my mom stopped in and stuck around which helped me big time! If we got a break in the long line of people, she would hold my containers for me to restock. Without her there I would have been balancing them or running back and forth from one end of the table to other.
I loved, loved, loved meeting so many new people, people who had never heard of me before, as well as seeing the loyal customers. I got a lot of stories from people telling me they'd had my cupcakes at a wedding or other event, or how they had been trying to stop at an open day but I was always sold out by time they made it. So I'm glad they were able to get cupcakes at the Grilled Cheese Championship!
I was able to sell 555 cupcakes in less than 5 hours! Amazing!!! Didn't get any? Don't worry; next Friday (May 6th) is my monthly open day! Don't forget that cupcakes make the perfect Mother's Day gift! Thanks for everyone who attended the Grilled Cheese Championship and thanks for another week of orders!
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