Food Vendor TEST

To help maintain a clean, safe, and environmentally responsible festival site, all vendors are required to pay a refundable $200 Eco-Deposit in addition to their booth fee.

The Eco-Deposit is not a penalty. It is a refundable deposit designed to ensure that each vendor takes full responsibility for cleaning and restoring their booth area after the festival.

The $200 Eco-Deposit will be refunded within 10 business days after the Festival, subject to a satisfactory post-event booth inspection by the Festival organizer.

Vendor Cleanup Responsibilities

Before leaving the festival site, each vendor must:

• Remove all garbage, food waste, packaging materials, cardboard boxes, decorations, and personal or business items from their booth area.
• Dispose of all waste and recyclable materials only in the designated disposal areas.
• Properly separate garbage, recycling, cardboard, and food waste.
• Ensure that no oil, sauce, liquid, ice water, or cooking-related waste is poured onto the ground, grass, drains, or public areas.
• Return any festival-rented equipment to the designated location.
• Leave the booth area and surrounding space clean and clear.
• Follow all cleanup instructions provided by the Festival organizer and site operations team.

Eco-Deposit Forfeiture

The Eco-Deposit may be partially or fully forfeited if a vendor fails to comply with the Festival’s waste-management and cleanup requirements.

This includes, but is not limited to:

• Leaving garbage, cardboard boxes, food waste, packaging materials, decorations, or other items behind.
• Disposing of waste or recycling in non-designated areas.
• Improperly disposing of food waste, oil, liquids, or cooking-related waste.
• Causing damage, contamination, or excessive mess in the booth area or surrounding festival site.
• Failing to follow the organizer’s cleanup instructions.
• Requiring the Festival team to perform additional cleaning, waste removal, equipment recovery, or site restoration after the vendor has left.

Any forfeited Eco-Deposit amount may be used to cover cleaning, waste removal, repair, recovery, or additional labour costs.

2025 Festival Cleanup Reference

The photos shown below are examples from the 2025 Festival, where garbage bags, cardboard boxes, packaging materials, and other waste were left behind after the event.

These examples demonstrate why the Eco-Deposit policy is necessary. To prevent similar issues in 2026, all vendors are expected to complete proper booth cleanup before leaving the festival site.

Thank you for helping us keep the Kimchi & K-Food Festival clean, safe, and enjoyable for everyone.