Loveland Chocolate & Cheese Fest
Sunday, September 22, 2024
The Ranch Events Complex
*** NOW - TWICE AS BIG! ***
North & South Hall!
And YES - We're adding CHEESE!!!
1 mile east of I-25 Exit 259
5280 Arena Circle, Loveland, CO 80538
FREE PARKING!
Hours: 11:00am - 5:00pm
This event is owned and produced by Dana Cain Events.
We now offer three timed entry sessions for a more relaxed experience! And VIPs may arrive a full hour early!
BOOTHS ARE NOW ON SALE!
Scroll down to see lase year's list of participating chocolatiers, samplers and vendors!
Scroll down to see lase year's list of participating chocolatiers, samplers and vendors!
For those who Love Chocolate & Cheese!
Admission (Limit 1200 per session):
$10 for Session One ( 11:00 - 1:00) or Session Two (1:00 - 3:00)
Arrive any time during your session and stay as long as you like.
$6 for Session Three (3:00 - 5:00)
This budget-friendly option saves you money on admission and lets you take advantage of any last-minute deals from vendors!
$59 for VIP Pass (limit 500)
Arrive a full hour early (10:00 - 11:00) - or any time you like!
Includes:
Kids FREE age 10 and younger
Parking FREE
Add Your Taste Tickets to Sample: 12 for $10
ONLINE TICKET SALES END AT 5:00 PM SEPT. 19.
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR while supplies last.
Admission (Limit 1200 per session):
$10 for Session One ( 11:00 - 1:00) or Session Two (1:00 - 3:00)
Arrive any time during your session and stay as long as you like.
$6 for Session Three (3:00 - 5:00)
This budget-friendly option saves you money on admission and lets you take advantage of any last-minute deals from vendors!
$59 for VIP Pass (limit 500)
Arrive a full hour early (10:00 - 11:00) - or any time you like!
Includes:
- 12 VIP Indulgence Tickets (good for exclusive treats from our VIP vendors); Plus 12 Taste Tickets
- VIP wristband and bag to take home any leftovers for gifts or for later!
- Reserved seating on the front rows at all stage events throughout the Festival.
- Lines skipping at entry and at the VIP designated booths!
Kids FREE age 10 and younger
Parking FREE
Add Your Taste Tickets to Sample: 12 for $10
ONLINE TICKET SALES END AT 5:00 PM SEPT. 19.
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR while supplies last.
A Full Day of Chocolate & Cheese Sampling, Shopping and Entertainment!
Meet some of the BEST local, regional and national chocolatiers and cheesemakers!
Chocolate Truffles * Chocolate Fudge * Chocolate Bon Bons * Chocolate Bars * Chocolate Cookies * Chocolate Brownies * Chocolate Drinks * Chocolate Cupcakes * Chocolate EVERYTHING ...
PLUS: Soft Cheese * Hard Cheese * Cheese Curds * Cheese Bread * Locally-Made Cheese * European Cheese * Cheddar Cheese * Swiss Cheese * Brie * Jack Cheese * Cheese Wheels * Cheese Sauce * Goat Cheese * Cow Cheese * Cheese Fondue * Cheese EVERYTHING!
Loads to sample and buy! AND: You'll love our great gift vendors!
PLUS: Soft Cheese * Hard Cheese * Cheese Curds * Cheese Bread * Locally-Made Cheese * European Cheese * Cheddar Cheese * Swiss Cheese * Brie * Jack Cheese * Cheese Wheels * Cheese Sauce * Goat Cheese * Cow Cheese * Cheese Fondue * Cheese EVERYTHING!
Loads to sample and buy! AND: You'll love our great gift vendors!
Meet our MC - Miss Babette Bon Bon! She puts the good diva in Godiva and the babe in Baby Ruth! She'll be at the festival all day, introducing the entertainment, wandering the floor and posing for pics! Photo by Gracie G'night.
Location:
The Ranch Events Complex
5280 Arena Circle, Loveland CO 80538
The Ranch Events Complex
5280 Arena Circle, Loveland CO 80538
- First National Bank Building - NORTH & SOUTH HALL!
- 45 mins. north of Denver
- 30 mins. south of Cheyenne
- I-25 Exit 259
- Phone: (970) 619-4000
Taste Tickets and Sampling
You can sample as much (or as little) chocolate and cheese as you want at our Festival! Vendors offer samples in exchange for Taste Tickets! They are usually one-ticket-for-one-sample... but it can vary. Sometimes you can taste multiple smaller samples for one ticket, and other times, you can get a large or elaborate sample for two tickets! It typically averages out to one ticket per sample! This allows us to pay our vendors a little something for the tens of thousands of samples that get consumed at our shows - and keeps them coming back with more for you to try! If you find something you love, you can usually buy a box of it to take home for later!
You can buy 12 Taste Tickets for just $10 ... We recommend starting with the 24 for $20, though! You can always buy more at the show - or if you get chocolated-out (Is that even a thing?) you can take home samples in a sample bag for later!
You can buy 12 Taste Tickets for just $10 ... We recommend starting with the 24 for $20, though! You can always buy more at the show - or if you get chocolated-out (Is that even a thing?) you can take home samples in a sample bag for later!
Chocolatiers, Cheesemakers, Samplers and Vendors
Want to sell?
Booths on sale now! See why vendors say we have "the best show model in the country!" We have a limit of 5 non-chocolate/non-food-or-drink gift booths. Don't wait - sign up today!
10 x 10 Booth rental:
- $195 for chocolate, cheese, food and drink
- $350 for Gift Booths
- Double booths also available.
Each 10 x 10 booth includes:
- pipe and drape backdrop
- one 8-ft table
- 2 chairs
- Extra tables available for $20 each
- Electricity is available for $35
DRIVE-IN LOADING IS ALLOWED AT THIS VENUE! That makes it so easy! Load-in is 7:00 - 10:00 day of show.
TASTE TICKETS – WE PAY YOU $.50 PER SAMPLE!
Vendors love the Taste Ticket model for our chocolate festivals! Customers give you a ticket for each sample. YOU get to decide on your own sample sizes and amounts, based on your unique products. At the end of the show, bring your Taste Tickets to Registration for cash. We weigh them with our Ticket Scale and pay $.50 PER TICKET. 🙂
VIP Vendors: It only costs and extra $50 to be a VIP Vendor and get extra promotion and special attention from our VIP attendees! You must be a chocolate/sweets company and you have to provide special, unique samples for our VIPs. We pay you $2.00 for every VIP Indulgence Ticket you collect!
AVERAGE PAYOUT TO CHOCOLATE SAMPLERS PER SHOW LAST YEAR -- $835.00!
That's just what we pay you for the sample tickets you turn in a the end of the show. That doesn't even COUNT your sales!
INSURANCE: All vendors are required to have their own liability insurance. If you need to order from us, you can do so inexpensively at https://securevendorinsurance.com/PFS/ApplicantInformation?GroupEventKey=1c602a6df6c4
ALCOHOL POLICY: No vendors may sell or sample any alcoholic products.
10 x 10 Booth rental:
- $195 for chocolate, cheese, food and drink
- $350 for Gift Booths
- Double booths also available.
Each 10 x 10 booth includes:
- pipe and drape backdrop
- one 8-ft table
- 2 chairs
- Extra tables available for $20 each
- Electricity is available for $35
DRIVE-IN LOADING IS ALLOWED AT THIS VENUE! That makes it so easy! Load-in is 7:00 - 10:00 day of show.
TASTE TICKETS – WE PAY YOU $.50 PER SAMPLE!
Vendors love the Taste Ticket model for our chocolate festivals! Customers give you a ticket for each sample. YOU get to decide on your own sample sizes and amounts, based on your unique products. At the end of the show, bring your Taste Tickets to Registration for cash. We weigh them with our Ticket Scale and pay $.50 PER TICKET. 🙂
VIP Vendors: It only costs and extra $50 to be a VIP Vendor and get extra promotion and special attention from our VIP attendees! You must be a chocolate/sweets company and you have to provide special, unique samples for our VIPs. We pay you $2.00 for every VIP Indulgence Ticket you collect!
AVERAGE PAYOUT TO CHOCOLATE SAMPLERS PER SHOW LAST YEAR -- $835.00!
That's just what we pay you for the sample tickets you turn in a the end of the show. That doesn't even COUNT your sales!
INSURANCE: All vendors are required to have their own liability insurance. If you need to order from us, you can do so inexpensively at https://securevendorinsurance.com/PFS/ApplicantInformation?GroupEventKey=1c602a6df6c4
ALCOHOL POLICY: No vendors may sell or sample any alcoholic products.
We pay you $.50 per sample!
Last Year's 2023 chocolatiers, samplers and vendors
Bold Blue = These vendors have VIP samples as well as regular samples.
Audacious Truffles
Bob's Red Mill Chocolate Bars
Bradbjammin.com
Breckenridge Vacation Getaways
Caramel Apple Dipping Station
Chocolate Martini Bar
Chocolate Therapist, The
Colorado Cocoa Pod
Cutco Cutlery
Danconias Truffle Brownies
Denver Post, The
Farm in a Jar
Fifi's Patisserie
Frosting!
Fudge Ladies
Goufrais German Chocolate Confections
History of Chocolate Display
House of Stewart Confections
IMI Chocolate Fountain
IXKAKAW
Jeana's Nut Buddies LLC
Loveland Chocolate
m2 Confections
Mari Rocks
Martian Munchies
Mary Kay
Maui Shave Ice Denver
Mediterranean Table
Merang-O-Tang
MouCo Cheese Company
NOCO Chocolates
Nothing Bundt Cakes
Origin Vanilla
pampered chef
Paradice Cream
Passanante's Home Food Service
Phresh Baked Goods
Redemption Road Coffee
Rich Brownies
Rocky Mountain Lemonshakers
Scratch Sweets
Starflower Chocolate
Suzi's Soul Food Bakery
Sweet Almond Flower
Twisted Kilos
To Market - To Market
VeneCacao Chocolateria
Voulez-Vous BonBon
What the Fudge Co.
Zetta Marie's Patisserie
Our Vendor Exclusivity Partners will be sampling a variety of truffles from Hauser Chocolates:
Bold Blue = These vendors have VIP samples as well as regular samples.
Audacious Truffles
Bob's Red Mill Chocolate Bars
Bradbjammin.com
Breckenridge Vacation Getaways
Caramel Apple Dipping Station
Chocolate Martini Bar
Chocolate Therapist, The
Colorado Cocoa Pod
Cutco Cutlery
Danconias Truffle Brownies
Denver Post, The
Farm in a Jar
Fifi's Patisserie
Frosting!
Fudge Ladies
Goufrais German Chocolate Confections
History of Chocolate Display
House of Stewart Confections
IMI Chocolate Fountain
IXKAKAW
Jeana's Nut Buddies LLC
Loveland Chocolate
m2 Confections
Mari Rocks
Martian Munchies
Mary Kay
Maui Shave Ice Denver
Mediterranean Table
Merang-O-Tang
MouCo Cheese Company
NOCO Chocolates
Nothing Bundt Cakes
Origin Vanilla
pampered chef
Paradice Cream
Passanante's Home Food Service
Phresh Baked Goods
Redemption Road Coffee
Rich Brownies
Rocky Mountain Lemonshakers
Scratch Sweets
Starflower Chocolate
Suzi's Soul Food Bakery
Sweet Almond Flower
Twisted Kilos
To Market - To Market
VeneCacao Chocolateria
Voulez-Vous BonBon
What the Fudge Co.
Zetta Marie's Patisserie
Our Vendor Exclusivity Partners will be sampling a variety of truffles from Hauser Chocolates:
- Lifetime Bath & Shower
- Renewal by Andersen
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DANA'S MISSION:
Our goal is to remind people that the world can be a beautiful, magical, fun place! We create environments where people can go to immerse themselves in their favorite things! Whether its one of our chocolate festivals, the Unicorn Festival, a retro-themed event, or a sci-fi musical, we love to take people exactly where they want to be - to their happy place!" - Dana Cainyright 2021 by Dana Cain Events. Headquartered in beautiful Denver, CO. Follow our @UnicornFestivalCO on Facebook. |