Exhibits, Sponsorships & Activations

Booth Space Only booth participation includes:

• Company listing (with short profile description) & Product Categories, appearing on the online floorplan, exhibitor listing area, and mobile app
• Option to include company listing in 5 Star Buyer networking portal (must opt-in)
• 6 exhibitor badges per 100 sq. ft.
• 3ft. side drapes (except adjacent to the aisle), 8 ft. high back wall drape (inline spaces only)

PRICE = $44 per square ft. | Corners $525 per corner

Three-Star Exhibit Space Package Includes:

• Booth Space
• (1) 6’ black-draped table for 10x10 |  (2) 6’ black-draped tables for 10x20
• Black standard carpet
• (2) side chairs for 10x10 | (4) side chairs for 10x20
• (1) Wastebasket for 10x10 | (2) wastebaskets for 10x20 (booth cleaning must be ordered separately)
• (1) 500-watt standard electrical outlet for 10x10 |  (2) 500-watt standard electrical outlet for 10x20
• One lead retrieval app activation
• Upgrade to Silver Company Listing on Website and Mobile App includes: 
  • E-booth listing with 750-character company description (upgrade from 500 for basic)
  • 2 press release uploads
  • 2 show specials uploads
  • 3 featured products uploads
  • Option for $250 upgrade to unlock video upload capabilities and expanded product and show special upload limits (costs $750 without three-star package)

PRICE =  10x10: $6050   |  10x20: $11,300  |  Corners $525 per corner

Requirements for purchase eligibility:​

• Exhibitor’s product must be food ingredient or finished food product ​

• Must be cooking/preparing and offering the audience food samples from your exhibit ​

Includes 10x10 foot area outfitted with the following:​

• 8' high black back drape​

• 3' high black side drape​

• Two 6' x 42" high black-draped tables (one in back for prep, one in front for serving)​

• One stool​

• One wastebasket​

• One 7" x 44" one-line identification sign​

• Gray booth carpet​

• 5 amp / 500-watt electrical outlet

*Required to secure your own sampling insurance and sanitization as per convention center & state guidelines. The exhibitor is also responsible for receiving, handling & storing food products.*

PRICE = $4000 per 10x10​ *Only available to food companies who are sampling at the show 

• Branding at Content Sessions taking place at our NEW How-to Stage and NEW Business Solution Theater (Western Foodservice Team curated content)​ - $4,500

  • 1-2 minute introduction 

  • Branded holding slides (produced by exhibitor)

  • Option to have soundless video loop on downtime between sessions (produced by exhibitor .mp4 file type)

  • Session listing will have logo placement on the website & mobile app

  • Opportunity to have handouts on seats

• Produce your own session within curated content tracks – MUST be approved by the content director and be an attendee draw – this means, NO sales pitches​ - $7,500 (Limited to 4 sessions) 

  • 45-min total allotment time - an operator must be part of the discussion

    - Content must be approved by our Content Director

  • Session listing will have logo placement on the website & mobile app

  • Option to have soundless video loop on downtime between sessions (produced by exhibitor .mp4 file type)

  • Opportunity to have handouts on seats

• NEW - Conversation Corner Sponsor – Brand this theater where our subject matter experts discuss the latest and greatest industry trends in a casual setting​ -  $15,000

 

• Unprecedented opportunity to target and request meetings with Buyers selected by you
• High visibility location in exclusive Center Stage Restaurant Experience Area/Five Star Buyer Lounge area of the show floor
• No limit to the number of meetings you can conduct
• Buyers represent qualified decision-makers from independents and multi-unit restaurants, hotels, commercial foodservice providers and coffee shows - access to attendees from both shows is yours!
• Expanded profile listing in Online Portal including product images, videos, and links

PRICE: $1,500 add-on for exhibitors, $4,000 for non-exhibitors​

• Splash Page - $3,500​

• Rotating Banner - $2,500​

• Featured Company - $1,500​

• Top of Group Listing - $5000​

• Static Floorplan Banner Ad - $2,000​

• Post-Event Email Blast - $2,500​

• Pre-Event Email Blast - $3,000​

• Webinar - $6,500​

Email Blast Specs:

• Max 600 pixels wide, 300 dpi
• Finalized HTML creative; may have multiple URL links
• Submit materials to your show contact
• 60-character subject line (spaces count)
• Exhibitors must host images
• File to be provided 2 days prior to deployment

• In-booth video interview with digital promotion sent to exhibitor post-show​ - $2,000

This 70x60 foot area features our NEW Center Stage & Restaurant Experience, where we’ll be hosting chef and bartender competitions and culinary demos, and a VIP area for our 5-star key buyer group.  

This feature will be marketed heavily to our audience as a place where they can come and truly immerse themselves in culinary experiences that both thrill and educate… together we build an amazing event experience that enables the audience to see, touch, smell, and taste the flavors that our sponsors bring to the proverbial “table”! 

• Recognized as one of two major headline sponsors of the event as a whole, and of its main feature – The Center Stage Restaurant Experience (headliner branding in these deliverables is all positioned side-by-side with the pantry sponsor)  

• Brought in under “partner status” to our content planning committee where your company can contribute and help shape the specific content taking place on our center stage across all three days of the event 

• An exclusively client-produced session (can be a demonstration, chef competition, or otherwise) on the center stage – ability to contribute more where it makes sense within the structure of the production as determined by the content committee 

• A spot for your chef or representative in our Rapid Fire chef competition and ingredient sponsor for the competition such that you can choose the ingredient that must be used by all chefs in the competition 

• Logo and mention included on marketing deployments promoting this area as well as on static website pages where this is highlighted  

$10,000 sponsor fee + production costs including (but not limited to) labor, drayage, and shipping of products used in demos 

Within the NEW Center Stage & Restaurant Experience, there will be food served to an engaged audience watching the chef competitions and demonstrations, being a supporting product sponsor is your chance to demonstrate your products use in a real restaurant/foodservice environment. 

A great example of a supporting product sponsor would be a furniture company outfitting the audience seating with their products, or a disposable wares company serving the samples out of their packaging product. 

There are opportunities across the board, but the product must be approved by our headline sponsors and fit with the overall experience. 

Opportunities here are extremely limited – get on our inquiry list asap! 

This 70x60 foot area features our NEW Center Stage & Restaurant Experience, where we’ll be hosting chef and bartender competitions and culinary demonstrations, and a VIP lounge for our 5-star key buyer group.  

This feature will be marketed heavily to our audience as a place where they can come and truly immerse themselves in culinary experiences that both thrill and educate… together we build an amazing event experience that enables the audience to see, touch, smell, and taste the flavors that our sponsors bring to the proverbial “table”! 

• Recognized as one of two major headline sponsors of the event as a whole, and of its main feature – The Center Stage Restaurant Experience (headliner branding in these deliverables is all positioned side-by-side with the pantry sponsor)  

• Brought in under “partner status” to our content planning committee where your company can contribute and help shape the specific content taking place on our center stage across all three days of the event 

• An exclusively client-produced session (can be a demonstration, chef competition, or otherwise) on the center stage – ability to contribute more where it makes sense within the structure of the production as determined by the content committee 

• Logo and mention included on marketing deployments promoting this area as well as on static website pages where this is highlighted  

• Positioned as one of our highest-tier event sponsors on thank you sponsor page 

$10,000 sponsor fee + production costs including (but not limited to) labor, drayage, and shipping