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| - In theory: A fantastic idea. Sampling cuisine from dozens of food trucks at a few bucks a sample, let the kids play, bounce, slide, zipline, etc., and have a beer, all while enjoying the sunshine and some pleasant background music.
I sampled some really delicious food (yay!) but only from 2 trucks (booo!). My kid bounced and went down the slide, and the lines for both were short, and she really enjoyed them. But she's 3 so she's the easy one to appease. The kids activities were the only reason I gave a second star.
We grown-ups, however, thought this event was so poorly executed, and we were so, SO disappointed. My primary complaints:
THE LINES. OH the lines! The whole idea is to try a variety and without splitting our group up completely (think: "I'll wait here for hot dogs. Here, take $4 and get me something from the Cajun truck. Okay, you go and get some tacos. And you can get some BBQ.") We hardly got to spend time with the group of friends we were with, and the time we did spend together we were working out the logistics of how to most efficiently deal with the lines.
LACK OF SEATING. While each sample is only a few bites, it still would have been nice to find a place to sit down with the smorgasboard we ended up with. Shade would be a plus.
PAYMENT SYSTEM. The independent payment/ticket system was a drag. Some places took cash only, some places took cash or credit cards, some places required tickets... There should just be one universal ticket that costs $1 or $2 and that would reduce confusion.
BRING MORE FOOD! Lobster roll truck running out of lobster 2 hours in? Yikes. There were some really unhappy people that had to walk away from the line they'd been standing in for more than a half hour.
This event has SO much potential. I hope they can get it figured out and try again.
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