EastSide Food Festival

I attended this event yesterday, and I will likely not come back.
I paid 65 dollars for the Advanced purchase general admission ticket which allows you entry into the event from 5 – 8 pm. Of note this includes 3 alcoholic drink tickets. Of note if you paid for the VIP ticket at a price of 80 dollars you get to go in at 4pm and you get 5 drink tickets.
The concept is great, they invite all the local restaurants from silver lake, echo park, los felix, downtown etc, and each are supposed to provide sample dishes from their restaurant, and you can try as much as you want. The drink tickets allowed you access to Angel City brewery beer, a Bombay Sapphire station that allowed you a choice between two of their specialty cocktails, and a whiskey area.
Here’s where it went wrong:
Food — I guess vendors weren’t given an approximation of to how much food to supply. I arrived 20 minutes after admission time, and by that time one of the vendors (Pine and Crane) had already ran out of their passion fruit green tea (this is at 520 pm!). We next noticed that Sticky Rice (from grand central market) was sampling their Khao Soi dish. As soon as we saw this we went to look for their stall and found a line with at least 40 people in it. We waited about 20 minutes in this line and they came and told the group in front of us that they were out. It was barely even 6 pm at this time, one hour into the event for general admission and two hours before the event was supposed to be done. There were a few other vendors like this, such as the baklava station. Also by 730 pm, most vendors were already shutting down/​had already shut down operations.
It is heinous that you pay 65 dollars for a food festival and you aren’t even able to try certain vendors because they didn’t bring/​make enough. Also, who runs out of food at 6pm for an event that goes from 5−8pm (4−8pm for VIPs).
The positives: the other vendors that did supply enough food, were great! Off the top of my head Jeni’s ice cream, Starry Kitchen, Taste of New Orleans, and many that I can’t remember the names off the top of my head. The event space was also nice and didn’t feel overly crowded. DJ was good. Volunteers were very nice.