Originally Posted by pocoellie
Don't know about the food, I'm too much of a tightwad to spend money on food at the fair. LOL
The food at our fair is always pretty expensive. I finally found out why, while talking to one of the food vendors. They have to pay about $2000 "rent" for their space, but then the fair takes a 15% commission on all their sales! That would add up pretty quickly. I was wondering how the fair could possibly know how much food was sold... apparently the food vendors have to buy all their packaging materials (cups, plates and the like) from the fair... so the fair knows, if the vendor bought 1000 cups, then they must have sold 1000 drinks... and then they can just "do the math" to get their share of the loot.
Hmmm... no business is quite as attractive or as profitable as it would seem at first glance!