2025 Food Vendor Hours
Thursday – July 31, 6pm-9pm set-up
Friday – August 1, from 10am-6pm
Saturday – August 2, from 10am-6pm
Sunday – August 3, from 10am-5pm
The number of food booths and trucks accepted to participate in the Festival will be determined by the Director and Food Vendor Committee.
Fill out this food vendor application if:
- You prepare or cook your food and sell from a licensed, motorized vehicle or mobile food unit
- You prepare or sell food from under a tent or canopy
- You cook your food on an outdoor grill or other portable cooking equipment, and then sell from under a tent or canopy
Applications are due by April 29, 2025
*Please note that acceptance into the Festival does not guarantee your placement in a particular location. Locations will be assigned after agreements and payments are received. Electrical needs may dictate your assigned location.
There will likely be changes to the footprint and map of the 2025 Festival. Some of the changes will affect our food vendors and placement will largely be based on electrical needs and traffic flow. Details of our mapping changes are still not final, and will be communicated after food vendor acceptance notification in May.
Fees for Food Vendors:
Food Booths and Food Trucks – Our fee structure is a commission based model. The fee to participate will be 10% commission of all sales due at the end of Festival weekend between 5-8pm, Sunday August 3. Commission payment (along with sales tracking) should be brought to the AAF office, 505 ‘O’ Avenue.
Once accepted, a $200 deposit plus electrical fees, are due to hold your space in the festival. The $200 deposit can be taken off of the total amount owed at the end of the event. There are no refunds on fees after June 26, 2025. We apologize in advance that we cannot make exceptions to this policy. All refunds will be minus credit card fees when applicable. *Non-profit organizations – contact the AAF office for discount rates
Electricity:
Electrical hookups are available for food vendors at the following rates:
$75 for each 20 amp 110v circuit
$150 for each 30 amp 220v circuit
$225 for each 50 amp 220v circuit
Your equipment must meet all required safety standards. The festival will locate 220/110v electrical boxes in strategic positions for use by food booths. The power boxes will be equipped with ground fault interrupter breakers, a personnel safety device, which will trip open on low levels of ground current due to faulty equipment. It is the vendor’s responsibility to provide connecting cords and properly grounded equipment, which meet the National Electrical Code for use at the festival. Food vendors requiring electrical hook up must utilize Anacortes Arts Festival distribution boxes (110-220v).
Electrical needs must be clearly reported on the application form to avoid power shortages. There will not be last minute revisions due to additional electrical requirements. Vendors must comply with Department of Labor and Industries requirements, which require yearly inspections for all concessions and booths. Any factory manufactured units that have a Washington State decal will not require a yearly inspection unless modifications have been made since manufacture. If you have further questions, please call the Department of Labor and Industries in Mount Vernon, 525 E. College Way. Ste H, Mt. Vernon, WA 98273-5500 or call (360)416-3000.
Permits and Insurance
Food booth vendors must obtain necessary food/food handling permits through the Skagit County Health Department, Court House Administration Bldg., Rm. 301, 700 S. Second Street. Mt. Vernon, WA 98273 or call (360)336-9380. This must be done two weeks prior to the festival to avoid additional fees.
All vendors must have a Washington State U.B.I. (tax identification) number. You can obtain a temporary number for your operations at the festival by contacting the Department of Revenue at 800-647-7706, web site: https://dor.wa.gov/.
The Anacortes Arts Festival must also have proof of insurance from each organization. Each organization must have a minimum of $1,000,000.00 in insurance, which is subject to increase with thirty days notice. Please send a copy of your insurance certificate to staff@anacortesartsfestival.com after acceptance.
Fire Regulations
The Anacortes Fire Department requires all booths and equipment to meet uniform fire code regulations for tent, canopy and temporary membrane structures. The code reads: “The sidewalls, drops and tops of all shall be made of fire retardant material or shall be made fire retardant in an approved manner.” All booths must be equipped with a fire extinguisher. Propane must be outside of canopy and secured.
Changes to Fire Code Enforcement
Beginning in 2019, Fire Departments in Western Washington started enforcing a five-year-old Fire Code that impacts our festival food booth vendors.You may not cook anything that produces grease laden vapors larger than 5 microns, under a canopy, without a Type 1 Suppression Hood. Even if the canopy is fire retardant. There will be a minimum of 10′ separation between cooking equipment and any canopy, building structure or vehicle.
*Kettle Corn vendors are exempt from the canopy cooking regulations.
All food vendors will be subject to inspection before service may begin. This inspection will take place on Friday morning prior to Festival opening. All questions regarding Fire Code Enforcement can be directed to Anacortes Assistant Fire Chief Jack Kennedy at 360-293-1925 or jackk@cityofanacortes.org.
Focus on Booth Appearance and Cleanliness
1. All vendors must operate within the confines of the 4 walls of their booth. There must not be any cleaning pots or appliances outside the confines of your booth.
2. We strongly suggest that workers wear something uniform to represent their business: T-shirts, hats or aprons.
Housekeeping
The Festival will provide dumpsters and cardboard recycling containers. Timely garbage disposal is absolutely necessary. Cardboard boxes must be crushed and placed in the recyclable containers and garbage must be placed in the dumpsters. The small garbage cans are for the Festival customers and will be serviced by the Festival’s trash crew. Ice must be dumped into the drains.
The location of your food booth is determined by power needs, previous sales, and menu. Food trucks who supply their own quiet inverter generator will have more possibilities for placement. The Festival attendance is about 80,000-100,000 over the course of the weekend. We feel that given the number of people who attend the festival, duplication of food items would not be a problem and would reduce long wait time in the food lines. We will however, do our best to spread out similar food offerings.
Fees:(plus any electric fees)
All food vendors will be charged a $200 deposit + 10% commission on all sales during the Festival. Commission is due on Sunday, August 3 at the end of the event. Vendors may subtract the $200 deposit from their final payment.
*Refund deadline is June 26, 2025.
*Food vendors who require more than 10' x 25' of space will be charged an additional fee. Cost will be on a case by case basis, depending on how much additional space is required. Please contact AAF office staff for more details.
