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- 1/2/25 Update- Purple Food court Space is full
- 1/2/25 Update- Yellow Food court Space is full
- 1/1/25 Update- Blue Food court Space available.
- 1/1/25 Update- Pink Food court Space available
The following application is for FOOD VENDORS ONLY.
For your FIRST LOCATION during Twin Cities Pride Festival.
You will need to complete SEPARATE APPLICATION FOR EACH LOCATION REQUESTED!
June 27-29, 2025 (2 days) in Loring Park.
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Please read all the information below before beginning your application to make the process easier for you.
Resources to assist in successfully completing an application
If you have questions or would like further details, please refer to the Vendor FAQ page at https://tcpride.org/festival-vendor-faq/ or contact festival@tcpride.org. The Vendor FAQ page also includes recordings of the informational sessions that were held earlier this year.
Errors with application
If you encounter errors while completing or submitting your application, please contact support@eventeny.com, or use the contact form at https://help.eventeny.com/hc/en-us/requests/new.
Vendor Registration
Vendor registration opens on January 15, 2025, and will remain open until all booth spaces are filled. Prospective vendors will have the opportunity to complete an application and join the waitlist after booth spaces are sold out if they wish to secure a potential booth space if one becomes available. A notice will be added to this information section to inform those planning to apply when the application availability changes to “waitlist only.”
Map and Booth space
An updated map that shows the remaining booth spaces can be viewed at the bottom of the application, or by following this link: https://www.eventeny.com/events/map/?id=14806&mid=11760.
Please verify your booth placement requests compared to this updated map. Specific booth numbers may not be in the same placement as previous years due to changes in the map’s layout. As such, vendors who request the same booth number in years past may not have the same booth space.
About Twin Cities Pride
Twin Cities Pride is the 501c3 charitable nonprofit organization that produces the annual LGBTQ+ Pride Festival, Parade, and other events. In addition, Pride sponsors other LGBTQ+ nonprofits including but not limited to MN Deaf Queers, MN POC Pride, and other Prides around the state.
Twin Cities Pride is run primarily with the help of volunteers and a few full-time employees.
The goal of Twin Cities Pride is always to create a safe and welcoming place for the LGBTQ+ community to gather and celebrate together. If you are part of a company, group, or organization that has actively worked against or physically harmed ANY members of the LGBTQ+ community then Pride is not the space for you.
We welcome vending businesses and organizations who affirm and support our mission. Twin Cities Pride wishes to create an environment that celebrates the gathering of a community, while remembering our history and all who have gathered before us:
Twin Cities Pride seeks to empower every LGBTQ+ person to live as their true self and to create a future where all LGBTQ+ people are valued and celebrated for who they are.
The Pride celebration commemorates and continues the fight against discrimination and ongoing struggle for equality faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer persons and their families.
While we would like to encourage and support all organizations to create a more inclusive and diverse space, merely having members of the LGBTQ+ community employed does not qualify an organization or person as being supportive or an ally. Twin Cities Pride recognizes that it is our actions that show the world our values and will keep this in mind when considering what vendors will be approved for the upcoming festival and other events throughout the year. As such, if you are involved in any way with a group, company, or organization that has engaged in missions or activities that sought to harm or restrict the LGBTQ+ community in any way during the last 5 years but are taking steps to become more inclusive and supporting, please reach out to Andi Otto, Executive Director, before completing an application to discuss the best steps for you and your organization to take to become better allies to the LGBTQ+ community.
Application Process
The application will be submitted with a credit card or ACH and only the $50 application fee and 6.5% payment processing fee will be charged at that time. This application fee is non-refundable for any reason. Each application will be juried on a first-come first-serve basis while giving consideration to the menu and the experience that we seek to provide for the festival attendees.
Acceptance to Twin Cities Pride includes, but is not limited to, the following criteria:
- Proposed menu (quality, pricing, uniqueness)
- Past Twin Cities Pride experience
- Commitment to and support of the LGBTQ community
- Sustainability Practices
- Other outdoor event experience
- Booth size and power requirements
- Level of professionalism
- Agreement to conform to established procedures.
- Honesty in reporting prior sales data.
Time frame of application review
Applying and receiving a confirmation email after you have completed the application DOES NOT mean you have been accepted, just that your application has been received. Applications will be approved, rejected, or waitlisted within 2 weeks of application submission.
Auto charge after approval
If approved as a booth vendor, you will be automatically charged the remaining fees associated with the selections you made during the application process along with a 6.5% payment processing fee. Once approved you will have 2 weeks to provide the Proof of Liability Insurance (COI) or your status as approved will be CANCELLED and NO REFUND will be provided. You may also cancel your registration during this time and receive a refund of the remaining fees (less any payment processing fees).
What will you need to provide while completing an application?
- ST-19
- COI
- Minneapolis seasonal or short-term food permit
- Photos of food unit
- Product description- Menu
- Food unit dimensions
- Power Information
ST-19
All vendors are required to submit a completed ST-19 with correct 2025 dates at the time of completing their application, or it will be automatically waitlisted until the document is provided. An ST-19 is required from ALL vendors, whether they intend to sell any merchandise during the festival or not. Please note that the requested booth spaces will not be held while awaiting properly completed documentation.
COI/ Proof of insurance
ALL exhibitors and food vendors are required to provide a Certificate of Insurance that meets the listed requirements within two weeks of their application being approved or their approval may be withdrawn, with no refund of any fees provided.
Certificates of Insurance must prove General Liability coverage of $1,000,000 or more.
Certificates of Insurance must list Twin Cities Pride as an additional insured, including its current legal business address.
Certificates of Insurance must Be valid for the dates of the festival listed above.
Address for your providers:
Twin Cities Pride, 1618 Harmon Place, Minneapolis, MN 55403.
Minneapolis Seasonal and Short-Term Permits
Seasonal and short-term food permits are valid only for two locations. If you apply for a third location, you will need to submit an additional seasonal or short-term permit.
Minneapolis short-term Permit
If you are applying for a Minneapolis short-term permit, we require the document to be filled out and submitted before your application is approved.
If You are applying for a short-term Minneapolis food permit for the Twin Cities Pride Festival, Twin Cities Pride will submit it to the City of Minneapolis on your behalf. Note- There will be a nonrefundable $100 filing fee for short term permits assigned when the application is approved.
Minneapolis Seasonal Permit
If you are applying for a Minneapolis seasonal food permit, we understand that Minneapolis takes time to get those permits, but If we have not received a short term permit before May 15th you may be required to submit a short-term permit or you will not be allowed to vend at the festival.
Photos of food unit
We are looking for good photos of all sides of the food unit, this will help us with the application process.
Product description- menu
Please include price information, this will be submitted to Clover directly and they will enter your menu based off the data provided. We would prefer you to submit this in a excel format it makes it easier to import to clover, but will accept pictures, PDF exc...
Focus on what you do best and keep your menu to a few items. If you need to make menu changes, please contact us before May 15th. After May 15th if you have menu changes the Clover reps will not enter the menus in for you. Please inform Twin Cities Pride of any changes needed.
Beverages (New for 2025)
No vendor may sell or give away alcoholic or THC beverages. Twin Cities Pride will not have beverage booths; but will have Free water located in the ice booths. All food vendors will be allowed to sell beverages. Serving THC beverages or alcoholic beverages will result in removal from the festival.
Booth (Truck/Trailer/Booth) Operations:
Vendors are responsible for leveling and setting up of your truck/trailer or booth in the park. Note- Please keep in mind that this event is in a park, and you may need to bring extra leveling materials. All materials, storage, and operations (including prep, cleanup and back of house) must occur within the booth space. Closer to the event, more information regarding location, set-up and operating procedures will be provided. You are responsible for the removal of surplus products, booth parts, trash, pallets, grease, gray water charcoal, etc. Failure to do so will result in additional fees being assessed and may prevent you from being accepted again in the future. A health inspector from the City of Minneapolis will be on-site throughout the festival. All food vendors must fully comply with any directives provided by the health inspector.
We may limit the number vendors who serve similar food items.
Each Food Vendor will be limited to a maximum of three locations.
Food Unit Dimensions
The dimensions of your food unit are important, we try to get as many food vendors into the park as possible. If you do not give us accurate dimensions to your food unit, we cannot guarantee that your unit will fit into the park, and we may not be able to accommodate, and you may be asked to leave.
Power/ Electricity
Power Rental is Required in all food courts:
- Stonewall (Purple Section with beer garden)
- P2P (Blue Section - lakeside and hillside locations)
- Loring (Yellow Section near beer garden)
- Harmon (Pink Section - along Harmon Place)
Vendors using electricity will be charged a $650 service fee (per location / per 50-amp connection). The service fee will provide you with either standard plug-in receptacles or a 50-amp trailer connection per location, and you will need to bring your own connector. As part of your application, we will need a photo of the connector or plug that your unit will need. We will also need to know how many amps you will be using. Vendors using electricity must provide accurate information about ALL equipment to be powered in their application. Twin Cities Pride is not responsible for outages. A licensed electrician will be on-site throughout the festival. All food vendors must be at their booth space at 9 AM Friday to facilitate the electrical inspector’s compliance inspection OR provide a copy of their annual State inspection approval document with their application.
No Portable Generators will be allowed in either park. Portable Generators will only be used by TC Pride for Operations & Sponsors when tapping into larger electrical systems are not available.
Use Of Sound
Prior approval will be needed for any booths planning to play music or any other sound. No amplified sound is allowed, excluding the Pride Festival stages. The maximum for vendor booth sound is 65 decibels at 50 feet with PRIOR approval from Festival Staff.
Clover POS System
By applying, you agree to use the POS system that Twin Cities Pride will provide to you upon check-in at the festival. In addition to booth/space fees, all food vendors are required to pay 20% of gross after-tax sales (both cash and credit) to Pride, as we must pay the Minneapolis Park Board a percentage of all sales occurring during the festival. Vendors will also be responsible for the transaction charges from clover. The Clover Processing fees for 2025 are 2.35% and $0.09 cents per transaction. These per-transaction fees will be deducted from your payout during the checkout process.
If you need four or more clover devices per booth a $100 fee will be added to cover the cost of the additional devices.
Sustainability Practices
As we work toward becoming a zero-waste event, we will be requiring food vendors to use compostable products.
You will be asked to provide information about your sustainability practices.
NOTE: Styrofoam products are not allowed at Twin Cities Pride.
Load-Out Process
To ensure the safety of attendees leaving the park, NO vehicles are allowed to enter the park before 7:00pm Sunday. Food vendors, box trucks and oversized vehicles will NOT be allowed to enter OR exit the park until after 8:00pm Sunday.
How do I know if I am approved? What if I am not?
A confirmation email will be sent upon your completion of the application, with instructions for providing any additional documentation required. This email is not a statement of your application being approved, only that it has been received. You will receive an additional email within two weeks that will inform you if your application has been approved, waitlisted, or rejected.
Vendors who are waitlisted due to incorrect or missing documentation will have their applications reviewed upon providing the correct documentation. A vendor waitlisted for missing documentation may not receive their preferred booth placement as availability will be based upon their approval date, not available spaces at time of application.
Vendors who are waitlisted due to a lack of space or multiple similar vendors already having been approved will be contacted if a space opens prior to the festival, before their application is approved, to verify if they still wish to participate or if their availability has changed. We will post a notice at the top of the application when registration changes to “waitlist only.”
Upon your application being approved, you will have two weeks in which you can cancel and receive a refund of all fees charged, aside from the application fee and any payment processing fees.
Failure to provide your Certificate of Insurance or other required documentation within two weeks of your application being approved may result in your application being withdrawn, with no fees being refunded.
Additional Charges and Fees
Violations of Twin Cities Pride rules and regulations including leaving your space clean may result in additional fees being charged, exclusion from participation, both during the event and in following years. We do not require a security deposit however the following fees may be assessed.
A charge of $100 will be assessed if you do not check-in upon arriving at the park.
Your Listing in Lavender’s Magazine Pride Section
Twin Cities Pride is collaborating with Lavender Magazine to create special 2025 Twin Cities Pride section in Lavender's June 15, 2025, issue. All Twin Cities Pride booth vendors, registered and approved before April 20th, will receive a complimentary listing in this issue. These listings will feature the name of the organization and business vendors and will be categorized alphabetically by color-coded location within the park.
Towards the end of this application, you also can express your interest in purchasing an ad in Lavender’s May 31, 2025, and/or June 12, 2025, Pride issues. A portion of these ad sales will benefit Twin Cities Pride.
A charge of $500 will be assessed if the trash is not removed from your area and taken to dumpsters. (large dumpsters NOT patron trash bins)
A charge of $2000 will be assessed if the Clover POS system is not returned.
Your Listing in Lavender’s Magazine Pride Section
Twin Cities Pride is collaborating with Lavender Magazine to create special 2025 Twin Cities Pride section in Lavender's June 15, 2025, issue. All Twin Cities Pride booth vendors, registered and approved before April 20th, will receive a complimentary listing in this issue. These listings will feature the name of the organization and business vendors and will be categorized alphabetically by color-coded location within the park.
Towards the end of this application, you also can express your interest in purchasing an ad in Lavender’s May 31, 2025, and/or June 12, 2025, Pride issues. A portion of these ad sales will benefit Twin Cities Pride.
