Concessions

Multi-stand concession operations for festivals, air shows, tournaments and venues. We handle permitting and health department filings, purchase and manage inventory, staff every point of sale and run cashless through one reporting stack, then settle it as a single reconciled statement.

Festival guests on the lawn around the churro and lemonade carts at Aftershock

On the ground

A festival guest holding two churros up to the camera on the Aftershock lawn
A churros and pretzels cart under a white umbrella in autumn light
A guest with a churro under the churros umbrella
Cheeseburger and fries on checkered paper
Event Specialists staff handing a churro across a cart counter
Two guests with churros, a Ferris wheel behind them
A churro held up with the Ferris wheel behind
Event Specialists carts serving a crowd beneath the wing of a C-17 at an air show
A frozen lemonade cart on the festival lawn
Fried chicken served hot at a festival concession
A guest holding a churro under a festival sculpture
A giant soft pretzel at Cali Vibes
A churro being handed from the cart
Guests at the churro cart during a festival afternoon
Pretzels warming on the cart rack
Carts lined up under the trees at Aftershock
Bacon cheeseburger and onion rings served in the stands at spring training
Guests posing with churros at the frozen lemonade cart
Frozen lemonade cups on the cart
A branded pretzel cart serving festival guests
Staff in an Event Specialists shirt working a cart
Bacon cheese fries in a checkered paper boat at a ballpark
Hot dog, churro and lemonade carts under a cloudy sky
A loaded hot dog and cheesy tater tots served at a festival
Churros stacked on the warming rack

Concessions are where Event Specialists started, and the discipline still sets the standard for everything else we do. Speed of service, transaction times, product movement, and the infrastructure to support thousands of transactions across a site that had nothing on it a week earlier.

We operate single specialty concepts or coordinate food and beverage across multiple locations on one footprint.

The Operation

Most food and beverage problems at an event are not cooking problems.

They are staffing ratios, holding temperature across a four-hour service window, a POS that goes down at peak, a permit that was never filed, a load-in slot that moved. We run all of it.

Site planning

Load-in and load-out

Refrigeration and storage

Staffing and scheduling

Inventory management

Product ordering

Distributor coordination

Cashless point-of-sale

Sales reporting and event settlement

Permitting coordination

On-site management

One operator instead of five vendors who each blame the others.

Where We Operate

Single-run events and recurring contracts, on the same operation.

Staff handing food across a concession window to a crowd

Festivals & Large-Scale Events

Music festivals, tournaments, air shows, and public events.

Multi-location concession operations across a footprint, run as one system. We handle permitting and health department filings, build the stand mix against expected traffic patterns, purchase and manage inventory, staff every point of sale, and run cashless through a single reporting stack. Settlement arrives as one reconciled statement rather than a stack of vendor reports that have to be chased down and matched by hand.

Venue & Recurring Contracts

Stadiums, fairgrounds, theatres, and recurring seasonal programs.

Recurring contracts are a different problem from one-off events: the same footprint runs twenty or forty times a year and every inefficiency compounds. We build the operation to be repeatable: fixed stand assignments, standing par levels, a trained core crew that returns each date, and per-event reporting that shows what actually moved. Venues get a single operator accountable for the whole food and beverage line rather than a roster of vendors renegotiated each season.

A permanent concession stand in operation inside a venue concourse

Product

Where We've Worked

Since 1989, across festivals, sport, and public events in Southern California.

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Questions

Do you handle POS and settlement reporting?

Yes. Every transaction runs through our POS system. You can watch sales live or get a full sales report at the end of each day, with settlement breakdowns.

Do you handle permits and health department filings?

Yes, we handle the permitting. Depending on the event, the fees are paid either by us or by the client, and we agree that up front.

How many service points can you run on one site?

Our largest events have run more than 20 locations with roughly 80 to 100 points of sale, whether food and bars together or food on its own.

Are you insured?

Yes. We carry a $5 million general liability policy and can add your venue, or anyone else you need, as additional insured on the certificate.

How far do you travel?

We work across the Western United States, and for the right event, anywhere in the country. A second warehouse in Ohio runs a smaller fleet of carts and booths covering the East Coast, from Washington, DC to Florida.

What is your minimum?

It depends on the services you book. Tell us what you need and we'll quote it.

The same operation, built to a brand's specification rather than a promoter's, is an activation.

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