The "King of Crawfish" Festival yesterday was terrible and basically a scam

For the record, I was very weary of it, but one of our friends bought a "VIP" ticket that got 8 people in so I went with him so he'd have people. Any crawfish festival that says "All You Can Eat", specially in February, is likely a scam, so look out. This one had tons of ads on Facebook from one of the major newspapers (I think the Chronicle?)

We got there around 3 hoping to eat some crawfish and get out of there, as I think everyone in the group grew increasingly weary of it. There were HUGE lines to get in, this event was way oversold. And they didn't start letting people in until roughly 30-40 minutes after it was supposed to open, and there was a consistent line the whole time I was there that moved slow…and doubly slow because the only exit was the entrance, which was a clusterfuck. Once you got in, you had to wait in a stupid long line to get a half pound, maybe a pound of unseasoned probably cold crawfish, and had to wait in the line again to get anymore. There were only two of these stations for this with stupid large lines.

Our "VIP" ticket promised a table and a server. We at least had a table (not reserved, but an extra area with tables) but no waiter. Long lines for water and beer too. And some mediocre cover bands playing and that was it. There were other food trucks there that people were going to instead because of the wait for the crawfish. Thing was a mess. And when we left around 530ish there was still a huge line wrapped around the park. I'm guessing they certainly expected people to be leaving after a short time because the lines were so long that there's no way they had a safe amount of people in that tiny park if they let everyone in. Plus as mentioned, the exit was the entrance which created a mess. Very surprised if this thing wasn't shut down by a fire marshal.

I honestly kind of assumed it would be like this and only went because I felt bad for my friend needing to fill his spots for his ticket, but man, that was a mess. It was put on by Green Light Events and this is a PSA to be weary of them or any all you can eat crawfish fest in the future.

The facebook page for the event is filled with similar reviews.