2012 | eventjuice

Food at Events - License Savy

No event is complete without some great tasting finger food or a sit down dinner. Be particularly careful, however, with your culinary offerings at outdoor events and temporary event spaces. By this I mean temporary food stalls such as hotdog stands, hamburger stands, ice cream stalls and ethnic food stalls. Each stall owner must have a license to run their food stall and comply with any requirements as stated by the health authorities. It may be that depending on where ...

Do You Need Printed Programmes for Your Events?

Planners seem confused on whether they need to provide programmes to their guests at events. Too often, expensive or time-consuming programmes are untouched while nearby, guests at another event are feeling like sheep needing to be corralled. Should you go to the trouble of providing event programmes? Ask yourself these questions to decide. Is your event self-explanatory, or built on tradition? If people already know what to expect out of your event, you may be wasting your time and potentially ...

Creating the Foundations for Your Event

Whenever I’ve begun planning for an event, I make myself a bucket of tea and I sit down to really contemplate the event that’s coming up, writing down a list of every question that comes to mind. There should be at least a full page of questions to sort through (if not 2 or 3 pages worth), with notes expanding upon each one. The first step needed is to determine the nature of the event, as the subsequent questions will ...

Frustration of Contract and Force Majeure

Although we’d like to hope that every person who we ever make an agreement with will keep their promise, we believe it’s wishful thinking and the law recognizes this. There are some instances under English contract law where a breach of contract will be excused – in part or wholly – depending on the circumstances. Because this is an events blog, I am going to talk about the excuse which is most pertinent to event managers: Frustration of contract. Although ...

How do you make sure that your events are sustainable?

We asked some of our clients how they did it. It makes for an interesting set of case studies. This video guide offers an insight and understanding of ISO 20121 Event Sustainability Management Systems. Crewsaders stakeholders, the DRP Group, Hawthorn Theatrical and Logistik as well as crewmen, talk about the different elements that need to be considered to create sustainability in the event production lifecycle and beyond. Case studies are used to highlight the basic principles behind the ISO 20121. ...

Would You Like Some Cheese With That Wine?

During my 20s, I discovered with great delight that cocktail guests were far more interested in my ability to build a cheese and charcuterie spread than they were in my cooking skills. This was a joy because I definitely excel at the former over the latter, while the specialty section of the market seemed to baffle my friends. Follow along here to pick up my tricks, and you’ll be spending more time opening wine bottles than slaving over delicate hors ...

How To Wow Office Colleagues With A Christmas Party Theme

Organising events year after year often becomes harder when the ideas start to run thin and when the memory of one Christmas party runs into the next, it is definitely time for a change. Theme ideas are often easy to come up with, it is what you do with them that makes or breaks a great party atmosphere. Food, drink and decorations are important in the fact that they tie a party theme or idea together but the whole essence ...

Outdoor and Indoor Requirements - License Savy

Don’t take liberties. Temporary structures definitely require a licence or certification and the local authorities don’t take kindly to illegally erected marquees in the middle of their prized parkland. Permanent venues will most likely be already registered event spaces and have all their licenses in place but temporary event spaces and structures, such as marquees, stages and even open-air events will definitely need a temporary permit from the local authorities even though you may be renting out a private field ...