HELLO TEAM!!!!
BBQ Fest is right around the corner. I am enclosing a hand-out containing park hours and the Moody Ques awards ceremony schedule. We are competing in Shoulders, Hot Wings, Anything But (Seafood), Sauce (Vinegar), Sauce (Mustard), and Best Booth . Team member packets (Wednesday night ticket, three-day pass, t-shirt, park map, and wristlinks) will be available for pick-up next weekend, starting May 12, at Double J Saloon and Smokehouse (located on G.E. Paterson near South Main Street). For the few out of town members, I will try to meet you or leave your bags at your hotel. For east Memphis members, please let me know if picking up the packets poses a problem and we can make other arrangements. As far as the tent, a sketch of the front façade and layout of the tent has been uploaded to the team’s website, www.moodyques.com. Unlike previous years, the scaffolding of the tent will be set up and torn down by Tennessee Scaffolding Co. For tent design and organization, we will still need a few volunteers to assist Brent Long and Holliday Flowers the following days:
Tuesday, May 8th – paint / construction of tent façade at Holliday’s warehouse (Union at I-240 exit onto Union)
Wednesday, May 9th – paint / construction of tent façade at Holliday’s warehouse (Union at I-240 exit onto Union)
Saturday, May 12th – building tent façade at Tom Lee Park
Sunday, May 13th – adding fabric to the tent at Tom Lee Park
Monday, May 14th – need 2 or 3 volunteers to stay at tent to receive delivery of tent items
Tuesday, May 15th – need 2 or 3 volunteers to stay at tent to receive delivery of tent items.
Please let me know if you are interested or able to volunteer on any of those days and I will send you additional information. Also ,unlike past years, we will have professional bartenders and security on Thursday and Friday nights, from 7pm- Midnight. Although team members do not have to sign up for shifts to work certain areas of the tent, all members should do the following if needed: keep the tent clean, take out the trash, assist the cooks, and change out/carry kegs. If you are wanting to do more for the tent or have any suggestions/comments for the daily operation of the tent, please let me know.
For team member guests, we previously had two permanent paper passes per night that you could give to guests. This year, we are providing each member with three extra Moody Ques rubber wristlinks to give out. These rubber wristlinks are removable so that when a guest leaves, you can keep it and give it to another visitor. In addition, team members are welcomed to greet guests at the door and escort them in. We will also have a guest list for Thursday and Friday for guests who arrive when team members are unavailable. To sum up, your guests can get into the tent by (1) wearing a Moody Ques wristlink, (2) meeting a team member at the entrance of the tent, or (3) by having their name on the guest list. Please email me a list of guests you want added to the guest lists. I will need the name of the guest and the day of attendance (Thurs. or Fri. or both). Of course, if the tent is beyond maximum capacity, guests will have to wait before entering.
We will have lockers at the tent so that if a team member wants to bring personal items (i.e. purse, expensive liquor, carton of cigarettes) you will be able to get a locker (if available) or share a locker with a team member. Please bring your own lock if you intend to use a locker. Oh – if anyone has a corn-hole board (wood, not plastic) that they can bring to the park, please let me know. Otherwise, we may buy one. Corn-hole is very important at BBQ fest.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Allison Moody
