Since the beginning of the week I was already busy with preparations for our Tapas stand. Not only were some sponsors still a bit hesitating, but because of the lack of space it was not wise to get the sponsored products too early in advance.
The most hectic period started wednesday 25th. I only took friday 27th off for the event, so during the rest of the week I was normal at work till 15:30. Since for the tapas we got assistance from Jiji's Restaurant, I was there nearly every evening. I think that the owner, Jurgen Boodie, got kinda tired of seeing me over there. Wednesday I had scheduled the wine glasses cleaning and everyone from my class was there. It felt really good to have everyone from my class supporting me. Initially I thought to take friday off to have a less hectic day so that I can also rest a bit. I was so terribly wrong. I started the day at 7:30 and was busy the whole day through. It even seemed as if 24 hours a day were not enough. And as if it's not stressful enough to have the tapas on my plate, last minute I had to hear that there's a change of the tapas stand location. I'm not sure if it was fact or foe, but they told me it had to be like that since it was an order from the fire department. And if it's by law, I'll need to follow it, right?
But on the day of the event, some participants already called me to ask what's going on. Since the day before I was told to move some of the stands and I checked with some of my participants, who were willing. But the participants called me to tell me that they were told they could stay. It went really wrong there. I'm responsible for the participants, but I don't even get an update of what will be going on. It really came out very unprofessional.
My whole F&B crew worked their asses off. Seriously, everyone was working on at least one type of tapa and whenever they were finished, to start with another one. I don't know how we did it after all, but we did it!! We sold about 1100+ tapas and if it wasn't for Jiji's Restaurant crew, I don't think we could've made so many.
You know, many things went wrong within the organization and external factors have not always been on our side, but after all, it was a succesful event. I've asked around and most people were not only impressed with what we've done, they are even asking when the next one will be. And however we did sell lots of tapas, but the biggest compliment for our hard work is when the visitors came to us and told us how marvelous the event was and that we did an awesome job!
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