Hmm I’m lucky my German markets open all year round and has reasonable prices and they let you use little wheeled trolleys 🙂

petrieboy

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I’d like to think the local councils make some well needed cash from these but I rather suspect that the only people making any useful money are the organisers/promoters who I suspect are a massive national chain

Does anyone know for sure?

It’s a mix – both organisations make money from it.

It’s not a case of the ‘poor cash strapped council’ being ripped off by the nasty capitalist organisers; both are as bad as each other in most cases. I wouldn’t trust Bath Council with Monopoly money, let alone the real stuff.

JP

A friend of mine who had a coffee van (fancy French job) enquired about a pitch at winter wonderland in Hyde Park London quite a few years ago, I can’t remember the exact price but it was above 20 grand!

Surely the council knows this is a festive season to encourage as many vendors as possible local or otherwise. Are they trying to money grab as well?

Bath must be doing something right, because the Christmas Market is getting bigger and expanding every year! And while there may well be some generic food stalls, much of what’s on show is from local and regional sellers, with lots of craft stuff.
Bath is full of places to eat and drink, the vendors in the market are, I’m sure, fully aware of this, and price accordingly.
I bought some locally made cheeses as part of a present for a mate last year, made in Bath, as it happens, bloody good they were, too!
That’s what’s so good about it, it allows the general public a chance to see, smell and sample lots of stuff from small local producers, that are otherwise not easily come across.

Went to the Bury St Edmunds Christmas Market this year and last, there was a noticeable shift towards the more generic, but still some good independent stalls. Didn’t feel very festive either.
Also went to one at Waddesdon Manor, now that was much better. Unique stalls and quite a few local to the Cotswolds.

Neither had sensible food prices, but the ones at Bury were the generic German sausage people.

Or go to Freo market and get a Bratty in a bun with onions and all the jizz for $5

Can I have mine without the jizz? I’ll pay extra.

£4000 per week is 115 £5 crepes per day for rent (more for power and location). Assume you have two crepe plates, and are pretty skilled to turn out two every five minutes and I’m being generous, then That would be about 4.5 hours just to pay for the pitch. Materials are cheap, but you’ll need two people, one to bake money and/or finish the crepe and serve.

Your crepe friend isn’t going to get rich but he’s going to be very popular.

the stalls can pay electricity themselves.

There were complaints about generators so I thought they already did.