{"id":5467,"date":"2009-10-04T00:07:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T04:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=5467"},"modified":"2009-10-04T00:07:17","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T04:07:17","slug":"the-brew-fest-scandal-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/04\/the-brew-fest-scandal-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brew Fest Scandal Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second annual Bright Leaf Brew Fest is coming up in mid-November, but there’s a “Boycott the Fest” movement going on at a local business.<\/p>\n

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The first Bright Leaf Brew Fest was a pleasant success. Craft and microbrew beers were sampled along with different food vendors and lots of people had a great time. <\/p>\n

FastForward to this year’s plans. It seems that Texas Steakhouse came to the Danville Tourism officials with an offer that they couldn’t refuse. They offered to pay $1000 in exchange for being the exclusive food seller at this year’s event. This teed off Steve & Judy Salamon, the owners of Bronx Boy Bagels<\/a> because they were one of the food vendors from the first Brew Fest. At the first one, food vendors paid a percentage of their food sales as their payment for booth rental and it worked out fine for Bronx Boy Bagels as well as the other vendors. When they were told of Texas Steakhouse’s proposal, they were given the option of matching or surpassing the $1000 offer to win out the exclusive food vendor role. The Salamons were unable to match that because they’re a small business (and the fact that there was no chance in hell of them ever making $1000 in food sales profits during the event).<\/p>\n

So, in protest of having a non-local chain restaurant come in and corner the market by throwing lots of non-local chain restaurant money, the Salamons put up a sign on the door. <\/p>\n

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It’s sad that it’s came to this, but what in the hell is the Danville Tourism department thinking? It’s a stupid idea to only have one food vendor, dumb to make it exclusive by the vendor’s request, dumber to make it a non-local chain restaurant and dumbest for selling it out to the highest bidder at a price that they know no local place could match. Yeah, I know it’s the Brew<\/strong> Fest, but food vendors make it a complete destination for the day. Multiple food vendors go well with multiple brewers. When I talked with the Salamons, they were very clear in saying that Danville tourism has been very great for them in all other ways. They’ve sent visitors to their restaurant from the Visitor Center. They had a great idea that if Danville tourism wanted to get $1000, they could have gotten 4 local restaurants to pay $250 for a booth. $250 is a doable amount for most small businesses… even if they just break even, they’re getting name recognition. That would have given 4 choices for festival attendees to choose from and that would make it fair for the local restaurants. <\/p>\n

There’s got to be a way to get a resolution to this problem but it doesn’t seem that it’s going to happen this year. That’s a damned shame. Is a boycott movement the way to react to this stupid decision? It looks like the only way that Bronx Boy Bagels can get the word out, and that’s another damned shame.<\/p>\n

Everybody loses in this scenario… and that’s the final damned shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The second annual Bright Leaf Brew Fest is coming up in mid-November, but there’s a “Boycott the Fest” movement going on at a local business.<\/p>\n

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