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Sealing the deal for vendorS
The Sandwich Fair organizers
don’t wait for a fair to end before star琀椀ng work on the next
one. As soon as Vendor Manager Ron Henrich checks in all the
vendors, he and his wife Kim immediately prepare the following
year’s contracts.
and they might sell it for a couple of years. The third year, maybe they didn’t do that well. The
fourth year, maybe they’re not
back.” He says a man who sold
a lot of bird feeders for several
Those 90 food and beverage years 昀椀gures he saturated the
market.
Sales
vendors are a litdropped
and
Henrich says, “As long as tle more than a
the seller pulled
Henrich says,
they’re in good standing, they quarter of the
out.
have the right to renew their approximately
“We’re always
contract actually before they 340 vendors
Do you own
looking
for
someeven leave the fair. We o昀昀er their altogether. The
a business and
contracts back to them the Sun- rest may sell thing new, something want to 昀椀ll a
day morning of the fair. A third anything from
di昀昀erent, something spot that comes
of our vendors actually come in candles to clothopen? You must
we don’t have.
and sign their contracts for the ing to soap to
commit to being
following year before they even 昀氀ags to home
there every day
leave on that Sunday.”
remodeling serof the fair. HenOf the rest, most of them vices. They 昀椀nd the Sandwich rich says he gets requests for just
eventually sign up again. Henrich Fair a respectable market. O昀琀en, Saturday and Sunday--the fair’s
says turnover is low, especially the only reason a vendor doesn’t busiest days. “We don’t want the
among food and drink sellers. He return is because he or she re- people that come on Wednesday to see half the spaces open.
expected just two changes out 琀椀res.
In other cases, market forces They come to the fair, they want
of about 90 food and drink vendors in 2026. That’s great if you are why. Henrich says, “A lot of to see everything.”
think it wouldn’t be a fair without
corn dogs, elephant ears, lemon
shake-ups, etc. Even so, Henrich says, “We’re always looking
for something new, something
di昀昀erent, something we don’t
have.”
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