Vendor Information

Load-in will be from 8:00-10:00 a.m. on Saturday morning. By 10:00 a.m. we would like to have everyone loaded into the hall, which gives you all at least a full hour to put the finishing touches on your booths before doors open at 11:00 a.m.

There are THREE different entrances available to load in: the North Lot, the South Lot, and the Side Door. Your load-in zone will be determined by your booth location, and this will soon be published to the Booth Assignments list in your Vendor Portal. The South Lot will be for our Sprouts vendors on Saturday, and the North Lot for our food trucks so we will be very strategic about this, but if you want to load in from one of those lots, be sure to ask for the earliest time slots for load in.

1) Come to the closest check-in flag that you see at your entrance to check in. This is where we’ll get to meet you, point you in the direction of your booth spot, collect any remaining swag if you are a perishable food vendor, and hand off all your vendor goodies. Most likely you will meet one of the three of us at check-in. Our team is small and if you want to know who is who, be sure to either watch our Lives OR see our home page for who is who.

2) Quickly unload ALL of your gear in your designated booth space.

3) Before you begin setting up, you’ll go re-park your car, then return to set up your booth. This part is crucial so that we don’t end up with bottlenecks in the loading zone. We will be hiring parking attendants to keep an eye on things. It’s unfortunate to have to ask this, but PLEASE be respectful to the UCU staff. Everyone from the President to our volunteers work their butts off and deserve to be treated like humans. We have to keep a lot of people safe and we want our shows to be good vibes only. If you are rude or disrespectful to any of us, we will add you to the list of who we no longer want to work with. Again, this is VERY unfortunate to have to say, and we feel the same way when we see signs in so many establishments reminding people to be nice, but this is only coming up from some unfortunate past experiences.