Mobile Food Rodeo

Negative stars.
This was a mess.
I was the SUCKER who paid FULL PRICE for the VIP tix only to see them on Groupon like a day later.
I didn’t mind really, I love to get a deal, but hey, I figured I wanted this to be a good experience and the fewer folks willing to pay the big bucks, and it stated 200 people would be my co-​eaters, I thought, I’ll get me some food without long lines, AWESOME.
Not awesome.
I would estimate 500+ people were ‘VIP” and they let us in about oh, 15 or 20 minutes before the rest of the ticket holders.
LAME.
SUPER LAME.
I’d rather chase the trucks around than pay money to get fooled into thinking I’d have a better shot at food than I did.
And three whole trucks from out of town?
Overall, this was a total fail.
Hated it!

After paying $ 10 for parking, and spending an hour+ standing in line to move maybe 25 – 30 ft, we sold our tickets for ½ price and left. After reading the reports here by those who stuck it out, we’re glad we did. I am amazed to see someone give this horribly organized event 5 stars. WTF? I suspect that it must be one of the people who organized it. Like others have said here, we will not be buying tickets to this alleged event next year. There should be a law against overselling an event as much as they did this one.

Such a poorly planed event I would say never attempt to go to an event that opens an hour late for a hungry crowd of 500+ people deep. Terribly disappointed I would say just find the food trucks and eat there rather then paying to be crowed in to a chain link rail yard.

This was one of the worst organized events I have ever attended. No one was directing people to the correct lines, there was not enough vendors, too many people, not enough trash cans. Vendors were only offering their regular menu and not smaller samples. I played $ 10 to stand in a parking lot and wait an hour for a slice of pizza. I waited in a second line for about 45 minutes and gave up and left. I will be telling all my friends to stay away from this event if it happens again next year.

What a chaotic, disorganized mess. A good event needs more than a good idea. There was no sense that anyone was in charge. We purchased tickets in advance but that really didn’t matter since everyone had to stand in the same long line.
I’d like to see an organization like One Reel that really knows how to deal with large groups of people take charge of one of these food trucke events. Right now it feels more like some old movie where someone says «my uncle has a barn lets put on a show». Strictly amature.

we were pretty excited about this event until we rode our bikes up to it and saw the line. The line was crazy long and didn’t look like it was going anywhere. So the wife and I rode all the way to the front to see what was the problem. We could see the exit was huge and the entrance was tiny with only two people handling the patrons. There were a couple of guys standing around so I tried to get a feel for the problem and give them some gruff. It seems like the fire Marshall held them up a bit and the rest was due to PPM (piss poor management). I told the guy to get some more people to handle the gates, he said they were short handed, so I asked «what are you doing?» It was a shame to see the grounds empty and the line eternal.
I felt like such an idiot for buying tickets online to avoid any possible line. I hate having to stand in line to give people money for things. My wife (so much smarter than me) had the idea to sell our tickets and cover our losses. We did and had some nice home made sushi to boot. Get your act together people! Sure hope the nice folks that bought our tix had no problems getting in to the event.
We’ll find you on the street maximus minimus!

I’m glad I came to the event so I could satisfy my curiosity, but I won’t be back next year. Like others have mentioned, the line to get in was ridiculously long — we waited over an hour just to get in. Once we got in, the lines for the food trucks were also an hour long each. I felt like I was in a refugee camp except that I still had to pay to get my food. To add insult to injury, most of the food wasn’t even that great. I enjoyed my pork sandwiches from Maximus Minimus and the ice cream cone I got from Parfait, but the jambalaya & beignets I waited an hour for were really mediocre. Same goes for the lumpia (egg rolls) I got from the Lumpia truck — they were basically the type that I usually get for free with my lunch special at my local Chinese takeout joint. To be honest, I don’t think that any food from a truck is worth waiting over an hour for. I think that I would have spent less time seeking out the food trucks on the streets of Seattle than I did waiting in line while they were all clustered at the Mobile Food Rodeo. They had some trucks from Portland but it would probably have been easier to just drive to Portland.
The Skillet truck ran out of food within an hour — apparently they had only brought enough food for 100 people. I saw them pulling out while I was still in line waiting to get into the fair. I am boycotting their restaurant because they are obviously retarded.
It was cold and windy and not worth it. Parking was $ 10 too!

Some good and some bad to tell about Seattle’s first edition of the mobile food rodeo. First, the good: Pretty much all the promised food trucks showed up, the crowds were manageable, and the event ran (through the first four hours) without incident. On the downside, the organizers could have lent a little more support to the trucks (some trucks shut down to resupply, for example, and a commercial-​specific entrance would have been handy) and the line to get into the event was ridiculous, with no information (signage, etc.) provided to those in the far back. Overall, however, I’m alright with how the event turned out, which was basically the way you’d expect from a fair (without rides). Everything considered, it was a pretty fun day, and I was mostly entertained for the duration. The «Rodeo» could use definite improvement, but I would be open to trying it in the unlikely event that they run this again.

This review is not for the food trucks themselves, they have plenty of reviews. This is for the event. The setup was terrible. There was only one line for everyone and it went all the way out to the street and around the corner out of sight whether you already had tickets or not. I would have taken a picture of it, but it would have required a panoramic to fit in half the line. The ticket people were eventually walking through the line and asking people if they had VIP tickets so they could go to the front of the line AFTER the VIP session was over. That was a bunch of crap. We got there right as the regular session started and already had tickets and had to wait over an hour and a half to get through the line. One line was definitely NOT the way to go. I won’t be back.

What a waste of time and money. I’ll never go to another one of these again. I had no problem with the food trucks themselves, but the organizers of the function must have been a bunch of amateurs. The line was ridiculously long and VERY slow. Waited for over an hour. And that was just to get into the grounds! They didnt have enough people putting those stupid bracelets on. Why not just pass them out? Or just a stamp would have been faster. What a stupid unorganized bunch. A single line to get in? Are you kidding me? AND WHAT IS THAT ENTRY CHARGE FOR ANYWAY? There weren’t even enough places to sit! And no organized line queues. The cost of the parking was outrageous too! What a rip-​off! Some of the food was good, but I still felt cheated when I left. The food trucks should feel insulted with the way they were represented.