DAY OF LOGISTICS

COVID 19 PROTOCOLS

We know everybody is still getting used to being social again, and we want everybody to feel safe while attending Smorgasburg, so here are the masking guidelines as required by the LA County Health Dept;

● Masks will be required for anybody who is not fully vaccinated

● If you are working inside Smorgasburg, without a mask on, you are attesting to being

fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

● If any member of your staff is unvaccinated, it is recommended that your entire staff

wear masks.

● Do not come to work if you’re sick with a cough, have shortness of breath, difficulty

breathing, or have fever or chills.

● Wash/sanitize your hands often

We are in the food service industry, so feel free to wear masks even if you are vaccinated. We want staff, attendees and the Health Dept. to feel as comfortable as possible, so even having masks available to put on when dealing with customers who are masked wouldn’t be a bad idea. We’ve also made Smorgasburg stickers that say “I’m Vaxxed”, so if you or your staff would like to signal to your customers that you are fully vaccinated, we’ll have those available to anybody at info-booth or when you load in through North Tunnel.

LOAD-IN

Load-in begins for everybody at 7am on Sunday morning. Enter the market on Central Ave. through the tunnel closest to 7th Street (the “NORTH Tunnel”). When you arrive at the North Tunnel our employee will check you in, give you wristbands for each of your workers (see below), let you know your space number, and point you in the right direction. The only vehicles entering the market for load-in should be dropping off food, merchandise, or equipment. If you are just coming to help set up, please park outside the venue and walk-in. Vehicles should only be parked inside the market for as long as it takes you to unload your stuff. Once you have unloaded everything into your spot, please go park your vehicle outside the market and then come back to start setting up.

PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE ANY VEHICLES UNATTENDED IN ANY PART OF THE PRODUCE MARKET OR THEY WILL BE TOWED BY SECURITY.

Even areas that don’t look like they’re being used, might need to be left empty. If you see other vehicles parked back there it is possible they have gotten special permission to be parked back there.

Exiting the market will happen through the “South Tunnel” onto Central Ave. (closest to 8th St.) We need to close the site to vehicle traffic shortly after 9:30am, so please be there before 9AM to load in and set up or you might need to dolly all of your equipment into the site from the 7th Street Gate security entrance.

Vendor parking

You’ll exit the market through the south tunnel at the opposite end of Smorgasburg from the tunnel you entered. When you come out of the market you will take a right onto Central Ave and then your first left onto 7th St. The vendor parking lot is at 1215 E. 7th St. It is a private lot that requires a clicker but it will be open by 7am. It is first come first serve until 9am or until the lot fills up. Please put something in your windshield with your company name, and phone number so we can identify your car in case of an emergency. We close and lock the 1215 Parking Lot at 10am, so please make sure your car is off of the market site and parked in the vendor parking lot by 9:30am, or else you might have to find another parking option.

If you arrive to the lot and the gate is down, it might mean the bottom level is full. Drive around to the back of the lot (on Terminal St.) to access the ramp to the roof of the lot. You should also park on the roof if your vehicle is too tall to fit on the lower level. Some of the spaces in the lot are stacked.

PLEASE DO NOT BLOCK ANY VEHICLES BY PARKING BEHIND THEM, UNLESS YOU KNOW WHO THE BLOCKED CAR BELONG TO AND HAVE PERMISSION TO BLOCK THEM IN.

The parking lot will be closed and locked while the market is open, so please make sure to take everything with you. If it’s an emergency, and you have to get to your car, ask a Smorgasburg employee to radio security about letting you in. You can get your car out of vendor parking during market hours, but you won’t be able to put any vehicles back into vendor parking during market hours.

Alternate Parking & Safety

If the lot at 1215 E 7th St. is full, or you want to park elsewhere, we strongly recommend parking in the ROW DTLA lot on Alameda & Bay. The ROW DTLA lot is free for two hours, $12 for the day. We also suggest that you use caution in the area between Smorgasburg and vendor parking. Try to walk in pairs to and from the lot if possible.

We also strongly suggest that you do not park on Central St… but if you choose to do so, you will want to make sure that your vehicle is visibly empty of anything (valuable or otherwise.) Cars with tinted windows, and vans or trucks that you can’t see the contents from the outside have been targets of break ins in the past.

wristbands

When you arrive at the market, everybody who is working will receive a wristband so that security knows you are working on site. If you have any guests coming before 10am or staying after 4pm THEY MUST HAVE A WRISTBAND ON indicating that they are working and have permission to be on site. Guards have been instructed to only allow people with wristbands through the 7th St. guard post, or in the areas behind vendor tents. Make sure you’re wearing one when you go to park your car after loading in. If you don’t receive one when you arrive, you can get them at the info booth or at North tunnel from the market manager. Please leave your wristbands on until you’ve completely left the site for the day so you don’t get hassled by security during clean up or load out.

Permit

If you are a new food vendor you will receive your permit from us at some point on Sunday morning. You will need to display that permit every single week that you are vending at the market, so please don’t forget it.

electricity

We have limited electricity at the market, and it does cost extra, so if you are a food vendor and need power to cook, you must specifically request it. There is no power available for shopping vendors in the middle of the market. Each 20 amp circuit is $25 per week, and has two plugs. If you have been approved for power, please only use outlets that have been assigned specifically to you. If you have power assigned to you, you might want to bring a high powered strip with a built-in circuit breaker so that whatever you have plugged in doesn’t trip the breakers in the building.

IF YOU HAVE NOT SPECIFICALLY REQUESTED AND PAID FOR POWER, PLEASE DO NOT PLUG ANYTHING

INTO THE WALLS.

If you have paid for power, an outlet relatively close to your booth will have your name on it. Do not plug into an outlet that does not have your name on it. An empty plug does not mean that the power is available for you to use. If you need power, here is some basic info you will need to know: each of our boxes are 20amps total, and have two 110v outlets. Some stalls have one 20 amp box, some stalls have two 20 amp boxes. AGAIN: EACH BOX HAS TWO OUTLETS. If you have two pieces of equipment that use more than 10amps each, they CANNOT be plugged into the same box or (and this is important) into the same power strip. This will blow the fuse and you will lose power.

Please check the amps for each of your pieces of equipment and make sure you are not plugging in more than 20 amps into each 20 circuit box. If you have any issue with power that’s been assigned to you, please have a Smorgasburg employee notify the market manager immediately so we can fix it. Don’t plug into another outlet that hasn’t been assigned to you, or you will likely blow those as well, and then we get a domino effect. Even if you are managing without power, please let us know so we can get it fixed for the following week.

Please be careful with how you use your power, and make sure your employees are well trained in what to plug in where. If you blow your circuit, and our on site engineer cannot fix it, you will have to go without power for the day.

There are no refunds on power fees for any reason. And if you decide to change the way you set up your power or add or subtract any equipment, please let us know ahead of time.

Generators are not permitted at Smorgasburg without special permission.

wifi

We have vendor wifi on site, but it should only be used for taking credit cards. If you need access to our wifi, you can get the password from the Market Manager on market day

propane

If you cook using propane gas you must follow all Fire Department regulations for its use. This includes having the correct fire extinguisher for the specific operation of your stand. For hot cooking oil in a fryer you need a "K" class extinguisher. Please make sure you bring your own required fire extinguisher.

If you’d like to refill your propane tanks on Sunday mornings, we will have a propane vendor on site between 8 and 9am who will sell you propane. You will want to speak to the vendor directly before relying on him for your propane (especially if you have a fixed tank on a food truck), as the vendor can only service certain kinds of tanks on Sunday mornings.

ice

We have one ice delivery that happens around 9am the morning of the market, out of a white van that parks in front of the beer garden. If you want to guarantee ice for yourself, or place a special order, please send your request to Nick from Athans Ice House - 310-259-3342 sales@athansicehouse.com

The price is $5 for a 20lb bag of standard ice… but they do have special products available for sale by request (dry ice, crushed ice, etc.) We will make an announcement when the ice van arrives, but you have to go to the van to purchase your ice, whether it has been pre-ordered or not.

There is no second delivery in the afternoon, so please get all of your ice at the beginning of the day.

garbage

If you are a food vendor, a garbage can will be placed behind your booth at some point before 10am. Cans won’t have liners until just before 10am, so if you need to throw anything away before then please bring your own bags to use first thing in the morning. These garbage cans are to be shared between vendors and not for public use. Keep them in your tent and please put

ALL food and solid waste in these cans. We have porters whose job it is to empty the garbage. If you need your garbage emptied or need a new liner you can ask one of them. At the end of the day, PLEASE leave your area the way you found it. Make sure all trash and food scraps go into the trash cans at the end of the day. If the can behind your booth hasalready been removed you are responsible for taking your trash over to the trash enclosure on the south side of Smorgasburg.

We are all just tenants of ROW and need to respect the space. The produce market opens up at Midnight on Sunday night, and there is no cleaning that happens between the time we leave and the time the produce market vendors show up to open their stalls. I know sometimes we show up and the site isn’t in great condition, but I can’t complain to management if we are leaving the site dirty at the end of the day.

zero waste

We are undergoing an effort to become entirely Zero Waste, so all plates, cutlery, cups and straws being served at Smorgasburg need to be 100% compostable. No plastic, plastic covered paper, foil or styrofoam will be allowed to be served to customers at the market. Drinks that are sold in cans, plastic bottles, and glass bottles will still be allowed during the transition to zero waste, provided that they are recyclable. But if you serve your own drinks, they will need to be served in compostable cups, with compostable lids and compostable straws. These rules will not be applied to packaged food that is meant to be taken home and eaten elsewhere. But if you serve a product that is unwrapped on site and eaten, that wrapping will need to be compostable.

Once we fully transition to zero waste, we will not be able to accept any vendor trash that is not compostable, so please start thinking about how you prepare and transport your food and supplies, in an effort to reduce the amount of trash you will have to take home with you at the end of the market.

We have identified a few companies who have acceptable products, so we encourage you to shop from Eco-Products, World Centric or greenhome for compostable items that carry BPI certification and/or meet ASTI standards for compostability. These qualifications should be listed in the descriptions of products you're buying. We don’t require you to shop from these suppliers, as long as you can find BPI certified compostable products they’ll be acceptable to us.

oil

If you are cooking with oil of any kind (deep frying or on a flat top girddle), please make sure you lay a fire proof tarp below where you are cooking or frying. If any grease or oil splatters on the concrete you are responsible for cleaning it up, so please make sure you bring oil absorber every single Sunday in case of an accident. Even the smallest amount of oil splatter can cause a slipping hazard to the produce vendors coming in on Sunday nights, so please be mindful of] what ends up on the concrete at the end of the day.

If you are a food vendor deep frying in vegetable oil, you can dump your used oil in the square black metal container in front of the garbage enclosure on the south tunnel side of the market. Oil must be dumped through the grates in the top of the container. If your oil has pieces of food in it, please make sure you remove the food before dumpling, or bring a sieve to dump your oil through.

DO NOT LEAVE CARDBOARD BOXES FILLED WITH OIL ANYWHERE ON SITE. AND DO NOT DUMP OIL OR WASTE WATER OF ANY KIND INTO THE SINKS OR THE SEWER DRAINS IN THE CONCRETE.

If for some reason you cannot dump your oil into the drums and dispose of the cardboard containers, you will need to take your oil with you at the end of the day. These services are currently free, but if trash or oil services become an issue, we reserve the right to begin charging a fee for these services with 14 days advance notice.

sinks & water

On site there are 4 compartment sinks for utensil washing, as well as slop sinks. PLEASE DO NOT POUR ANYTHING SOLID DOWN ANY OF OUR SINKS. The slop sinks outside the restrooms are meant for waste water only, and the 4 compartment sinks should really only be used for utensil washing. We highly recommend you take your dirty dishes home with you at the end of the day if possible. If it is absolutely necessary to clean something that doesn’t fit in the utensil sink, you may use the slop sink. But PLEASE DON’T PUT ANYTHING SOLID DOWN THE SINKS and be mindful of other vendors who might be waiting to dump waste water.

If too much food goes in there, it will clog our grease traps and the sinks will become unusable for everybody. If you need clean water, you can get it from the slop sink or any one of the hoses or spigots around the market. PLEASE do not use the water from the utensil sinks for anything other than washing utensils. Those are not plumbed, and the water supply is limited.

At the end of the day you are required to dump all of your waste water into the slop sinks outside the restrooms. There are two sink areas for vendors to use, one in the south tunnel and another in front of the vendor restrooms. Under no circumstances should you dump anything into any of the sewer drains on the site or dump anything inside the janitor’s closet where our sinks are attached. This includes water and ice.

handwashing sink

Please remember to bring a handwashing sink every single Sunday. You are responsible for filling them with warm water out of the slop sink to use at the market. If DOH comes and you don’t have these set up, you will run the risk of being shut down for the day and you will forfeit your vending fee for the week. Gravity fed hand washing sink set ups are very easy and inexpensive to procure and set up. There is a diagram of one in this packet:

http://www.publichealth.lacounty.gov/eh/docs/Events/EventRequirements.pdf

break down & load-out

Please do not start breaking down your signage and booth until AFTER security has swept the general public past your space. (This won’t happen until after 4pm.) We will open vendor parking just before 4pm so you can go get your vehicles and bring them back for load out- which will work exactly the way as load in. Feel free to line up along Central St, in front of the North

Tunnel, but the gate won’t open until security gives the all clear. This could be anywhere from 4:05pm to 4:30pm. When the all clear is given, you can enter through the north side tunnel on Central Ave. Exit through Central Ave’s south side tunnel.

Feel free to pack up anything you want inside your booth starting at 4pm, but for safety reasons we’d appreciate it if you don’t take down your signage or booth until the public has beencompletely swept off the site. Your cue that the public is off the site, and you are clear to take down your tent is the north tunnel will open to vehicular traffic. At that point you can start breaking down your signage and booth.