Festival Preparation Checklist for Food Trucks

A festival can be your best day of the year or your most expensive lesson.

Festivals compress a month of volume into ten hours. Everything you normally get away with — soft pars, vague roles, manual tickets — breaks.

Cut the menu. Four items you can execute at speed will out-earn twelve you cannot.

Build pars from your last comparable event, not from your weekday average.

Run a kitchen display and pre-set promise times so your line keeps moving.

Debrief the same night while the numbers and the frustrations are still fresh.