Fresholi | Melting Pot Café

Off to the Winter Food Festival — bit nervous but that's good  :mwaha:

Best of luck Rajiv, I'm sure you'll do really well  :buttrf:

Hope all goes well.  :buttrf:

Lots and lots of luck and good sales. Sock it to 'em.  :buttrf:

The great thing about balms and butters is once you've got someone to try, they're often hooked. You've just got to reel 'em in!

Good luck!

Hope it goes well and that you don't spend all your hard earned cash on the foody stallw :buttrf:

Good luck.

Good luck and have a blast!

How did it go?  I hope you didn't get too cold  :buttrf:

Oh it was very cold! Froze my **** off  ;D

Nothing great sales wise - covered my stall fee and made a tiny bit more but on another note:

Lady returned from a few weeks ago because the small she bought worked really well and so she bought a larger pot
A few people took my card
I learnt of another fair next year in March will have more of the kind of people I need
I also learnt that I could call the local hospitals and ask to sell my products in their canteens — did any of you know you could do that?
Lots of people tried the products — loved them but did not buy? Pricing is wrong? Too expensive for their budget… So something to think about
Food was selling like crazy   :mwaha:

Overall a good day  ;D

Ooh so I bet you are glad to be home and start to thaw out  :)

Sorry it wasn't so good sales wise, but at least you didn't make a loss.  How did the little boxes go?  They would make nice xmas gifts.  Did you xmas your stall up Rajiv?  That might have attracted the gift-buyer maybe?

Pricing is hard isn't it.  The thing is, you have your costs and the product is what it is but it might be worth testing a lower price (if you margin will allow) just to see if it generates more sales maybe?

Great news about your returning customer  ;D  You also sound like you have pulled a lot of positive things from the experience, that I am sure will only serve you very well for the next time.  :buttrf: :buttrf:

Yup and I can also eat — I've had three meals already since coming home working on towards the fourth ;D

My stall was attracted lots of looks — I don't think my stall was 'Xmased' up. I'll post a photo.

Gift boxes — lots of interest zero sales.

Definitely going to look at pricing — I think I can afford to change it slightly, even if it's by a £1 it can change things hugely  ;D

Photo…

Ah... what a lovely clean layout.  I like the little square shelf-type-frame thingemees.  Don't those little gift boxes look good on the table.  Actually, I should have popped into to town for the festival (just didn't get enough time). 

P.S.  glad you didn't forget the pic Rajiv cos you would have been in BIG troubles  :mwaha:

Yes I know about the Fresholi Police  :mwaha:

Looks great!

Your table looks lovely, glad it wasn't a disastrous day for you :)

Looks very nice.  :buttrf:

It's not you, Rajiv, it's the time of year. My mum calls it the November lull. What traffic you do have tends to be window shopping.

Maddening, I know, but keep your nerve on your prices. Come December it will be a different story. It'd bloody well better be!

Great idea about hospital canteens.

Thank you for the heads up on the 'November lull'. I've changed the pricing a little but not by a huge amount. I'm still in a comfortable zone profit wise. Yes December better be good or I will be administering some of this as well  :Bad:  :mwaha: