#EatDrinkFestival: Vendor Registration is Open!

Hello!

This year’s edition is a pretty big one for us. It’s our fifth edition and we’re committed to making it the best one yet.

For our milestone edition, we’ve made a couple big changes this year. First, the festival has been extended from its traditional one-day format to two days: December 26 and 27. Two whole days of fun.

We disappointed a lot of potential vendors last year because of the limited slots. While we can’t fix physical constraints, we can do this and achieve the same goal without diluting the experience. Also, after experimenting with longer festival hours with Jollof in the summer, we’ll be bringing that to the festival this year. The event will run from 12 pm to 8 pm on both days.

We’re also bringing the festival to Lekki. The Lekki Coliseum to be precise.

Another summer experiment that’s coming to the festival this year is the “Artisan” category. The slots will be very limited but we’re looking for vendors independent crafters who create homemade, locally sourced, specialty products. Things like granola, tiger nut drinks or local chocolate are what we have in mind with this category. In the past, we’ve shied away from adding this category because we wanted to focus on professional and hobbyist chefs who didn’t have the capital to set up their own restaurants. We’ve since come to realize these unique Nigerian challenges also extend to the homemade crafters.

Our final and, perhaps, biggest change this year: the festival is going to be completely cashless. One of the biggest challenges last year was getting business accounts opened and sourcing POS terminals for vendors. To fix that this year, we’ve taken matters into our hands and reached out to festival professionals to help us with our little problem. The festival will have its own currency and each vendor will get a special POS tablet device to accept payments. This device will work seamlessly both on and offline, so sales will never be disrupted by “POS is not working”.

If you’d like to join us this December, please review the document below in its entirety and complete the vendor application form.

Regards,

The EatDrinkFestival Team

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