when you can't even find the event 

I was going to comment something weird about wanting swell cookies that are the "body of Amanda" but I also really don't want to be blocked please she is my favorite RU-vidr

I for one cant wait for Amanda to fake her own death, be buried and come back from the dead after 3 days 🙏🏼

taylor being the only exception is so real but other than that she’s suffering

Hail swell

Praise

A chocolate festival sounds like heaven, holy shit. Also I’m glad y’all are actually being reimbursed properly for your work as opposed to the poor people at the dessert wars thing :/

This reminded me of going to Burlington Chocolate Fest growing up. It was so fun

Yeah the ticket-sample exchange is a pretty standard way to handle food festivals; as soon as she described the handful of tickets and container I knew what was up. That might be why the organizers didn't feel the need to bother with better explanatory signage/communications? (that's not a _good_ reason to skip it, to be clear) I've been to many food-oriented festivals/events and the ticket system is good _IF_ you're not starved for space (public events, small venues)...depending on the number of tickets/vendors and the exit policy (takeaway vs eat onsite only) having people milling about trying to decide which things to come back and spend a ticket on can really gum up the flow. I remember attending a "Cheese Festival" in Seattle, set up in front of the Pike Place Market (so outside, basically a long row of pop-up tents down a cordoned off street right next to a tourist destination in a major city) that was open to the public for free...and the ONLY way that worked was by establishing a sort of...forced one-way flow that kept the crush moving in one direction. People still tried to pop in and out, or go back to buy from a favorite vendor, which meant every stall that had stuff for sale ended up with eddys and jams in the flow. I remember a) social anxiety up the wazoo because yikes and b) dearly wishing they'd get like...a traffic engineer? Do they have those for pedestrians? in to cordon in lanes and off-ramps and on-ramps to manage the flow better. (As an aside, a milk table would have been redundant but someone could've made a killing with like...a Lactaid stand...or a Pepto-Bismol and Dulcolax booth! 😂) Anyways, if _that_ event had limited the number of samples you could have via tickets it would have been unbearable, but the Dessert Wars venue looked big enough to easily handle cross-flowing traffic. The ticketing system usually comes into place for events where the vendors are getting a portion of the entry fees based on what they gave out (to track reimbursement), attendees can take home samples (to limit those that would just grab handfuls to doggy bag), or to limit the workload and financial risk to vendors to encourage participation-- especially for charity events where the vendors aren't getting reimbursed or can't really sell/market to offset costs, or at things like food truck events where the cost/time to prep per sample/item is high enough that making "a bunch extra just in case" isn't viable (baked goods or chocolates can be done ahead and have a shelf life that means overage could be sold or donated or used for another event...but that's not possible with say, shrimp ceviche, or even a dressed salad). The event coordinators count up their sold passes, multiply by # of tickets, divide by # of vendors, and tell each vendor to bring enough to cover their portion of samples plus a bit of extra. (Or go the other way by setting a # of servings each vendor is required to provide, and then limiting entries and tickets based on that commitment.) Yes, at these events some vendors will run out and if you're later in line you may not get first choice, but it's a lot less risky for the vendors and minimizes food waste. If Dessert Wars were worried about vendors running out early, or not enough vendors showing up, maybe ticketing to limit sampling would make sense...but it sounds like vendors were paying to participate, the samples were all pre-made, and there were enough samples available and a known, limited number of guests so I'm not sure WHY they bothered with the tickets if they weren't reimbursing the vendors. 🤷 Maybe Las Vegas has roving gangs of competitive All-You-Can-Eat Buffet Busters that need to be reined in 😂

I love you Swell!!!

@@bsidethebox This was an AMAZING comment, thanks for all the deets

Thanks for being a good friend and not immediately dropping her off somewhere so sketchy

I didn’t realize you two are friends! Amanda should collaborate with you and Graham

haha the moment she said Macy I was hoping it was you!

If you’re a friend of Swell’s then your a friend of mine

I think that's happened to my family on a couple of trips....

Tbh it’s starting to feel like pretty much anyone can rent out an event space 😅

Considering how much work we put into our festivals and events, it's always distressing to hear of these kinds of things.

How an event is run IS make or break. I have stories from helping set up a model train club layout at shows ranging from easy to a nightmare since no one bothered to check if the hall was unlocked and we lost valuable setup time due to that.

@@pdrg I work for a nonprofit and we do a lot of events. It's very difficult to do a really great event. Feedback like this is really helpful, it tells us the reality that consumers experience. Much better to have negative feedback than none at all.

The issue is almost always logistics and infighting. Lack of communication kills events. I have seen events fail and succeed. When each team (vendors, security, venue, etc) communicate successfully, the majority of the time the event will be fantastic for attendees AND staff. Sounds simple but its easier said then done

The only one I want to go to and seems like it’s very successful is the Pittsburgh pickle fest 😂

If it's a very local event, run by a local org like the chamber of commerce, I've found them to be very good and well planned out.

@@kingworm7168 that’s because Picklesburgh is not a good festival, it’s a religious experience

​@Abby Shoenfelt well, sounds like I have to go to Pittsburgh now.

@@kingworm7168 As someone from Pittsburgh, I can attest Picklesburgh is the ... dill *tips hat and exists*

No that isn’t silly at all, having seating is necessary. No one can stand for hours on end without rest.

Yes! I have chronic pain in my joints (especially my hips) and this would’ve been a major bummer.

that's honestly the bare minimum, imagine being so inaccessible you don't even have chairs. also, did they really expect a few hundred/thousand people stuffed with sugar to walk and stand around and ENJOY IT?

Not silly at all - in Jenny Nicholson's Star Wars Land video she talked about how even for able-bodied people, having benches and chairs is critically important because rest and having a place to sit and take everything in is more helpful than it might naturally occur to people, and when you take disability into account sufficient seating becomes a critical necessity

I am disabled, too (cerebral palsy), so my body fatigues easily. I always need to know there is adequate seating for any event I go to.

I went to a beer festival and it worked fine. They had little wood tokens as the tickets with the festival logo on it so I kept one.

Sometimes there is also a competition to see which vendor gets the most tickets, and it gives the event managers information about what went well or not

Digitize it. Make a tracker app, the vendors scan a code on your phone and the info goes to the event planners.

Dang now I’m upset Dashcon happened too early for Amanda to make a video about it

@@Jenninka there’s so many other events that she’s gone to that are dashcon level it’s hard to pick 😂

@@saucytruffle4738 but she’ll never get an extra hour in the ball pit

@@Jenninka true 😔

@@Jenninka please, I don’t want an extra hour in the dashcon ball pit :(

Simple, they just don't care. They made bank off the work of everyone else in the venue and gave almost nothing back for it.

For real!

I go to a small local wine festival every year and that's what they do, but this is so corporate and grubby that i think they simply don't care. Our event is organized by one single sixty year old dude and he clearly puts in more effort towards making it a good and memorable experience for both a attendees and vendors

that’s just another thing to hold and juggle though

@@grey6703 It would’ve been nice if guests were given a little drawstring bag with the vendor check list, business cards, a themed lanyard and maybe a map of all the booths! I think it would give the event a more professional feel while also merchandising the festival.

😭😭🤚

Even just reading comments, a lot of people that have simple ideas that sound like they’d help a lot, may be a good place for you to find some inspiration! Best of luck to you!

i second this, amazing!

Good gracious it was a nightmare to catch it on a pause tho on my tv. 😂 so totally worth the effort. Especially the blackmail folder. 😅

William and Hermes are critically important characters in the Swell Cinematic Universe

'announces being bi' had me cackling

Yes, I absolutely LOVE the editors comments

This is a very good idea

I accidentally went to an herbalife boba/drink shop. It was honestly fine? My anti MLM cred is in danger lol

Sometimes they're just disguised as regular smoothie shops. There was one in the town where I used to live

they spelled protein wrong on the sign lol

@@morganw2492 there was one near my workplace, my coworkers went there once and they said two smoothies cost over $20 😭

@@Kyiecutie yikes

I would love to go to events like these!

Industry conventions are much different than these events. They are business first, fun last, which ends up making them more fun because they are run so smoothly. The businesses there are bringing in their best sales people and most informed employees, instead of whoever they can get to show up (often overworked owners).

@@alisaishereThat's really insightful!

I love Amanda and her videos, but William's tiny little edits like this are what I live for.

I wish William the best of ventures with his blackmail folder

Thanks so much for this comment. It was really difficult trying to see it. And for anyone who wants it, it's specifically 10:39 or at least that's the exact time I paused it. It's easier if you start at 10:38 and just pause and unpause it repeatedly until you get to the screen.

Sounds like a local fund raiser we have here in Pittsburgh...lots of fun and very popular event!

Perhaps I should have clarified: I've struggled with EDs my whole life. But that's also 100% NOT why I prefer almond milk, Jesus.

I'm sorry he said WHAT?? what the actual fuck is wrong with him?? I am so sorry you went through that because its unacceptable.

@@hl6994 Thank you, you're so kind ❤ It was at an event and I think he confused me with someone else, because it sounded like some sort of joke that I was supposed to be 'in' on. Except he was a complete stranger to me and I was just left self-conscious and mildly paranoid. Looking back on it now, I don't think he was saying that to every random stranger. Or at least I hope he wasn't. Nevertheless, glad to hear that others are out there ordering unsweetened almond milk every now and then. ❤ I legitimately feel a bit less weird about it having heard this.

Jeez that's stupid, I eat it cause I don't like the taste of milk and almond milk is the only alternative I sorta like but only the non-vanilla unsweetened one. I don't really like milk in any manner and the only reason I get it is for cereal which I barely eat that too.

Almond milk is delicious, what the hell was wrong with that guy?

Here in Vegas?

UwU

glad to see swell simps have a union. do you guys get dental?

We need to bring back shaming

The Onlyfans Essay Stans Union stands in support of any and all supercuts, especially if there are feet. Will there be feet?

OwO

My problem with this is that containers are meant to be used to take food home but they weren't allowed that, and your idea would've meant even more plastic waste. I'm just confused why they didn't offer paper plates and bowls if they have to eat it there. But yeah that would have been an easy fix.

@@FS-qk5uq Maybe I missed that part but- were they really not allowed to take it home or were they just encouraged not to, to make sure people ate & voted? I don't see why they'd be forbidden from taking stuff home since it's not like an all-you-can-eat thing. There's a finite amount of food attendees can get with their tickets and as someone going to event, I'd be angry if I couldn't eat everything my tickets got me but I wasn't allow to take it home.

Yeah, it sounds like one of those reality shows or something.

But the margins, especially in the speciality/desert restraunt industry are razor thin. 10k for promotion, especially when you'd normally be selling those cookies for like 3 bucks a pop, is a big big spend.

Looks like they have one at 15:59