Want to help share that when it comes to crawfish festivals, Asian Night Markets, jammed packed anything where they oversell and you don’t get product is Hello! Entertainment group. Be careful and dig deep to do research on upcoming events because they keep changing their festival names. So glad to see justice is now coming in to this scamming of a group.
https://www.potts-law.com/blog/2022/march/austin-crawfish-festival-fails-miserably-attende/
by CraftyMonk888
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There’s more companies like this. AZ Food Festivals is another one that’s doing these scams like the Taco and Margarita festival last year. Just do a little research into who’s putting on the events. Look at the company names attached to contact emails, etc.
Or stick to established events put on by local organizations and businesses.
Asia World Night Market this year checks out btw
One time I paid for entry to a bloody Mary festival. It said it included samples so I expected to at least get a slight buzz out of it. Nope, the samples were for the different bloody Mary *mixes*, no alcohol. Who the hell does that? I could buy a drink for full price, but then what the fuck was the point of paying admission?
He’s also flipping houses now. I’m sure they’re of the upmost quality and no corners were cut
https://www.businessinsider.com/real-estate-investing-san-antonio-texas-home-flipping-advice-2023-2?fbclid=IwAR0WpJVDFLZ9EGO_pR_-cZSlfE-MTcx6XrAU-LUs7vR-QRV3qNbX9H2c6dw&mibextid=Zxz2cZ
Idk who put on Migas fest last year, but it was $75 and I never got a single taco. They had like 4 “booths” but the tacos were only guaranteed for the judges and they ran out after about 30 minutes into the 3 hour event
Yet people were offended when I was suspicious of Meat Carneval. Been burned before.
Hey guys. Im over it but I’d like to address a few things. Hello is actually a music promotion company and doesn’t have much to do with the crawfish fest at all. (I’m still wondering how it get twisted into the crawfish festival news.) I’m just now seeing these articles after a suicide attempt in early last year.
I’ve been quite absent since then for my own health reasons. But I’ve been very open to anyone that has a question about the festival. I haven’t even really talked to much of the staff who I honestly love dearly.
We aren’t getting sued. We’re not in any legal trouble. No one has ever contacted us legally. That webpage is inaccurate and there wasn’t 50,000 people there. 50,000 people at a seafood event would be insane, guys. I don’t know why everyone insist on making this seem 10x bigger than what it is.
We were never shut down for “over capacity” of attendees… The parking lot got shut down because it backed into the highway because someone wanted to have their best friend take $20 for parking one by one. There was a miscommunication with the police department that caused the over capacity issue. If anyone looks at the videos, the actual venue is huge, it wasn’t over capacity. The venue which I can’t name because the owner has been all but nice to me (trust me, they know what happened). Actually holds tens of thousands of people, we had less than 5,000 tickets sold for the event. There has been much larger events like Euphoria in the past that went on just fine there.
I never knew about the parking charge at the venue. I didn’t know there would be (literally) one old lady at the beginning of the parking lot, that was a venue decision. That caused 90% of the problems.
Overall, a lot of unfortunate shit happened at this event. But I spent $400,000 of my personal funds on the festival in efforts to make it happen. I lost a ton of money. I refunded customers. Weather, a rough venue, and a bad apple. By bad apple I mean our music director literally disappeared the week of and went to be hall monitor at C3.
I also wanted to say, I’ve thrown or been apart of several other events that have done well around the US. I dedicated the last few years of my life to this (even during Covid) and honestly most events don’t even make money. I did it and still do it out of the love of events and bringing people together. I don’t understand why people think we are making millions of dollars when the tickets are typically $5-$30 to get in or in some cases free. It’s not about the money. It’s literally never been about the money. I wanted to highlight some of this.
I had gators driven in from Louisiana. I searched far and wide for a gator pit master that would do it and do it damn well. This literally took two years. They killed it. I funded it. He ran off with $10k in the end but (Yeah… I know.)
We gave away lobsters. We gave away 500 king cakes. We’re like the first festival to do beer funnels which I thought was badass. People were supposed to return them but somehow they all disappeared, I like to believe someone is still out there filling there’s up lol.
I got fucked on the crawfish part. I obviously don’t cook crawfish as an organizer but the team I originally had backed out. The new guys did a great job but there were some major missed points like only cooking in one vip area that really screwed the festival. Again, not my decision.. I really don’t want to bash anyone here. At the end, we had ordered over 25,000 lbs of crawfish. We threw away at least 3,000 lbs towards the end.
The “no crawfish” conspiracy. We ran out for an hour on the second day. Every single backup we had established told us it was one of the roughest catch weekends they had ever seen. It was bad luck. No, nobody from our camp posted in a random group looking for crawfish. We are connected to every large crawfish distributor in Texas. Luckily, we did get more. We had a truck turned around by the venue which delayed the timing. I honestly can’t help crawfish cooking times, I’m not the boiler. We threw away a ton (literally) at the end of the event. That sucked.
I also would like to loudly say, I literally had no idea who Hoodoo was. I didn’t invite them. I never ran off with $50 or whatever it was. That was weird. I have no idea why they would even say that.
I could go on and on. The storm blew all of our stuff everywhere and the fire dept said we couldn’t open for another hour and then everyone thought it was because we weren’t ready. Etc etc.
Finally, if people want to think we planned a festival for years, designed a website, and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to “scam” the community in which we live in and not really get anything for it. People promote “ATX Crawfish Kickoff Fest” proudly and they don’t even have a logo and it’s in a tiny venue with no parking. That’s fine. I don’t care. I would just like people to know I almost died several times over over that festival and will glady risk my life until I do.
Thanks.
This isn’t true.
Waiting for my other comment to post.
Funny enough? This was posted by an old partner that did the night market with me. Half the reason we had lines were related to him but I don’t point blame.
Weirdo vibes.
If anyone cares for a proper explanation, I tried posting but doesn’t look like it posted.