Comments on: The 1st 7th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational In Los Angeles http://laughingsquid.com/the-1st-7th-annual-grilled-cheese-invitational-in-los-angeles/ art, culture and technology from San Francisco and beyond Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:11:18 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Riley Ray http://laughingsquid.com/the-1st-7th-annual-grilled-cheese-invitational-in-los-angeles/comment-page-1/#comment-604592 Riley Ray Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:39:09 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/?p=21908#comment-604592 This was one of the most poorly organized, disappointing events I've been to in some time. 1) The only food you could get was a cold corner of a grilled cheese sandwich from Kraft 2) There was ONE vendor outside SELLING grilled cheese sandwiches. OUTSIDE the event. With a 30 minute line. 3) There were NO signs explaining any of this. And if you wanted to WATCH the cooking, the line was six deep to even see. Did NOBODY think to put it the action on platforms like in other public cooking events? When I talked to some staff in t-shirts on the way out, what I got was "yeah we sold all our tickets earlier" and then not much else. So, to recap: you have NO food vendors IN the event. There were not enough tickets to give a TENTH of everyone who showed up more than a 1/4 kraft sandwich. And the communication was so bad that there was no way to figure any of this out until you'd been majorly disappointed by the whole thing. Seriously, great idea but with the execution of the mentally disabled. Way to screw it up guys. This was one of the most poorly organized, disappointing events I’ve been to in some time.

1) The only food you could get was a cold corner of a grilled cheese sandwich from Kraft
2) There was ONE vendor outside SELLING grilled cheese sandwiches. OUTSIDE the event. With a 30 minute line.
3) There were NO signs explaining any of this.

And if you wanted to WATCH the cooking, the line was six deep to even see. Did NOBODY think to put it the action on platforms like in other public cooking events?

When I talked to some staff in t-shirts on the way out, what I got was “yeah we sold all our tickets earlier” and then not much else. So, to recap: you have NO food vendors IN the event. There were not enough tickets to give a TENTH of everyone who showed up more than a 1/4 kraft sandwich. And the communication was so bad that there was no way to figure any of this out until you’d been majorly disappointed by the whole thing.

Seriously, great idea but with the execution of the mentally disabled. Way to screw it up guys.

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