Food Crawl for days - Setting Up The Meetup

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Hey guys,

I’m planning on a food crawl that will last a whole week. As most events tend to be a day to day basis, does this mean one has to create various days for the crawl or can this be made for day one and the report covers the whole week of how the event went?

@KarenVChin @TraciC @FahmiAdimara

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@RobAo , great question! Thanks for tagging me. I believe you should be able to cover and state the whole week in your meetup invite post that you need to create using the online Local Guides Meetup Invite tool.

I am tagging @HelloJess to make sure she is aware of your week long food crawl meet up plans in Kenya.

Besides @BudionoS who just hosted his first very successful World Wide Food Crawl Meetup that lasted for 2 days, you may want to contact @NunungAfuah who was a part of a 3 day mega Indonesia meetup that had 100+ Local Guides coming from all over Indonesia that had both day time and night time events for 3 days and 2 nights - food crawl, hiking, night time activities, etc. last summer.

Reading her community’s recap and how well organized and well received it was, I’m sure she can provide some fantastic tips and provide great insights for holding mega Local Guides meetups.

https://www.localguidesconnect.com/t5/General-Discussion/RECAP-Meet-Up-Nusantara-2017-the-biggest-Indonesia-local-guides/td-p/408789

Plus @IlankovanT and @MahabubMunna are the Kings of consistently having tthe most meetups and at times 2+ day meetups in their counties of Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. They both are very helpful and can share their vast experiences in dealing with both big and small turnouts.

Can’t wait to see how your food crawl turns out, and of course, read your recap with plenty of delicious food photos and video!

Good Luck!!

Cheers,

Karen

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Thnaks Captain for tag me @KarenVChin

Hey @RobAo just try to share my little meetup experience .

Meetup Normally 3 type

  1. Grade 1
  2. Grade 2
  3. Grade 3

all are base on target people , area and financial budget

Grade 1

Any famous cafe or restaurant as like “KFC, MacDonald” etc

it’s i think a little bit expensive and not join much people in there . but it’s look great and enjoy a lot

Food expense: his his whose whose

Grade 2

Local famous / popular shop , it’ also maybe good decoration and a place there maybe a 20 people sit and talk they give you time

and there join more people and target maximum percipient University Student

Food expense: his his whose whose

Example Meetup : Summit Experience share Meetup

3 Year celebration Meetup

Grade 3

this meetup you can arrange street food based or any park side or any normal place . there you see more people join

Food expense: his his whose whose / you give this

Meetup Example : Street food test

Hidden cost: phone call / for select venue you go several place , and like you make some logo design /banner for this no one give you single $ . so mentally prepared for this

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Thanks for tagging me @KarenVChin . As my previous experience doing 3 days meet up to 100+ Indonesia Local Guides, if you have interest in doing food crawl for days, I guess you may consider the availability of the fellow Local Guides you has invited. For instance, are they are ready for doing marathon foodcrawl for couple days? If it is so, when are they available? It is in order to make sure that they will enjoy all of the foodcrawl you may make.

Secondly, the place of your foodcrawl will be held. As @MahabubMunna has shared his idea about dividing into three type consideration of doing foodcrawl. For me, I guess it is deal with the members of your meet up preferences. I mean, not all of Local Guides love to do culinery, somehow they just want to feel the cafe/resto’s atmosphere. Feel free to explore what best or appropriate place for reaching out all of the members of your meet up preferences.

Another consideration is about timing. Doing a foodcrawl for couple days seem a good thing to do. However, the host could consider whether it spread in certain days (i.e. once or twice for a week) or continuous days (i.e. three or four days in a row). For me, I prefer to spread it in a certain days like once a week, or to my ideal foodcrawl, twice in a month. It is based on my experience for making our community still have “fun” meet up(s) regularly. We all do not want to just join a “big” foodcrawl, then there is no follow up meet up after.

To summarise, all Local Guides always love to have a fun meet up. However, making “regular fun meet up(s)” is still best idea to eliminate boredom. Thanks!

Cheers,

Nunung Afuah.

Indonesia Local Guides

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@NunungAfuah @MahabubMunna , you are simply amazing. Great meet-up tips, with thorough details for @RobAo to think and contemplate. Thanks for sharing your meet-up strategies and words of wisdom.

@ErmesT , I just remember your weekend meetup in Nov, that including 2 days of events + planning for hotel accommodations. Would you please share your meet-up learnings and what are your thoughts for a week long food crawl meet-up, including organizing one for Robert.

Cheers,

Karen

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Thanks @KarenVChin for tagging me. Nice idea, @RobAo , even if it is an hard challenge

  • So, point one, technical: A meetup should (officially) only last for one day. It means that, in your meetup page, is showed as a single day meetup. Even if in the description you can indicate that the meetup is longer, let say a week, this can be misunderstood. In my case, we planned two meetups, in two consecutive days. Most of the people was taking part in both days (this means the ones that had to plan a long trip, with hotel accommodations, like @AlejandraMaria ) and others (that are coming from the same city) that was mostly taking part only in one day. Submitting one meetup per day give you also the possibility to a better interaction with the people. The only difficult that I was facing in this part was that some people didn’t understood that they had to “sign in” for everyday. To solve this, we created a shared spreadsheet, where to confirm the meetup period.
  • Point two, attendants: how to be sure that the people that signed for the meetup will really come? You should not be alone in the organization of it, and give to everyone some role. Being in charge of something, they will be part of the organization, and this will help a lot. This kind of meetup should be organized at least two months in advance, for having time in organizing the event, found the places where to go and talk to them to see if you can have a better price (having a group of people coming in)
  • Point three, Logistic. Do you plan to have people coming from far away? Do they need hotel accommodation? If so, and you want to save money, there is a large activity to do, in finding places, make reservation, and so on.
  • Point Four, what to do. Planning a long meetup for a food crawl can be simple if all the people is coming from the same city, but is quite difficult if you have people that is coming from far away. In the second case, you should plan some additional activity, let say a photowalk, or a visit to some place (museum? park?) to have the people engaged all day. This is simple to do for a couple of day, but if your plan is for a full week, it should be very detailed, carefully balancing fun / free time and other activities.

A lot of things to do, Rob, but if you have a good group, you will have a lot of fun.

Feel free to call for information, or whatever you need.

Ermes

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Hi @RobAo thanks for tagging me, You can see my post here to prepare some meetup :slight_smile:

from this case, I’ll make an awesome preparing meetup video special for Local Guides Global. Thanks for inspiring me :slight_smile:

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Thank you all for your responses and calling in other LGs to help. The weeklong foodcrawl unfortunately won’t go down this time, however saving this information for the future when it comes up again. Also thanks for the link @FahmiAdimara .

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