The Avo Shack

For event organisers

Invite us to trade.

Running a festival, market or music event and want us on the site? Tell us about it below. Rough dates and a rough crowd size are enough to start.

Tell us about it

What we need from you.

Dates, roughly where, and roughly how many people through the gate. That is enough for us to say yes, no, or ask you two questions back.

  • We bring the whole stall — build, signage, boards and crew.
  • No quote needed here. You are inviting us to trade, and we talk terms directly.
  • Site and pitch details can come later.
  • Still planning and have no firm date? The form takes that too.
Email us about your event

Not an organiser? If you want us to cater a wedding breakfast, work event or private party, get an instant catering quote instead — different questions, different answers.

Avo Shack crew cooking to order on the line

After you hit send

What happens next.

Four steps, and you can stop at any of them without owing us anything.

  1. We read it and check your dates against what’s already booked. If we can’t do it, you’ll know quickly rather than in a fortnight.
  2. You get a written reply with what we’d run — a menu and a price for catering, or our questions about the pitch and the deal for an event.
  3. If you want changes, we revise it. Swapping dishes or changing the trading model doesn’t restart anything.
  4. To lock the date in, accept and pay the deposit. The balance is due before bump-in.

In a hurry? Email us and we’ll come straight back to you.

Questions

Common questions.

If yours isn’t here, put it in the form — we answer everything, including the ones that end with us saying we’re not the right fit.

How far in advance should we book?

Festival season books out a long way ahead, so if your date is in peak summer, earlier is genuinely better. For private events we can often turn a booking around in a few weeks. Either way, ask — we run several setups and can sometimes cover a date that looks taken.

What’s the deal for event organisers?

Whatever your event runs on. We trade on a flat site fee, a percentage of sales, or a free pitch, and we’ve done all three. Tell us which one you’re offering in the form above and we’ll tell you straight away whether it works for us.

Do you travel outside Melbourne?

Yes, regularly — regional Victoria and interstate for festivals. Travel and accommodation are costed transparently. For a big site a long way out, there’s more detail on how we handle large and remote sites.

What power and water do you need?

Tell us what the site has and we’ll work to it. We can run off mains, or arrive fully self-sufficient with our own generator and water. It just needs to be planned rather than discovered on the day.

Are you insured and certified?

Yes. Public liability, a food safety program, food-handling certification for everyone on the line and a food safety supervisor on site. Certificates and permits go to your event manager ahead of time as a pack, not on the day at the gate.

Rather just talk?

Email us with the date and rough numbers and we’ll come straight back to you.

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