Eid Festival @ Olathe, KS

The weather was terrible on that day. It was kinda like a small blizzard, so windy and snowing like crazy. But since I've participated, I gotta go. The festival took place in Olathe, KS which is 40 mins away from our house. But it took us an hour to get there because the traffic was quite slow. There were lotsa accidents involving trucks and vans along the way. We counted 5! Fortunately our car was heavy with foods and drinks, so alhamdulillah we got there safely.

There were not many people when we came. The other vendors were still setting up their booths, and some just arrived.


Our booth - Malaysian cafe.

Eventually, lotsa people came, mostly from Pakistani community. They estimated 2000 - 3000 will come, but only 400 people showed up. And half of them were teenagers, I guess they got nothing to do at home, so they came to hang out with their friends. They didn't buy anything much, just talking and watching the performances.

The other vendors that sold food, they are from restaurants. We were actually the only one who sold homemade food. So since they got some sort of reputation and people knew them well, they sold more food than us. Also, it was hard to sell Malaysian dishes because these people were not familiar with our food (we even gave them to sample our food!)


So basically it wasn't a successful event. I came home, rugi banyak :(

I spent $220 to buy all the stuffs, and I only got around $90 from the sale. But when I think about it, I knew other vendors from the restaurants also didn't make money at all. They had lotsa food left at the end (one of them had food for 35 people left), and they also had to pay for labor cost (because they brought their employees with them). It was like, semua org rugi la, so I didn't feel that terrible.

I was thinking about going to Alamo Bowl to watch PSU football game with Texas A&M on Dec 29. But since I didn't make money at all at the festival, I can't go anywhere, takde duit. Hmm tinggal angan2 saja la.