Chicken Sate, vegan junk food and cocktails. The food truck festival ‘Rolling Kitchens’ is back in the Westerpark after three years. “That feels very good, but it is also very exciting,” says Rolling Kitchens director Yorina de Ruijter. This is partly because something has changed: for the first time there is a fence around the festival site.
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First it had to be postponed by corona, last year the organization itself decided to cancel the festival due to the uncertainty that prevailed before. Now Rolling Kitchens is finally back, the people behind the stands are enjoying themselves to the fullest: “We are outside and the weather is good. We are so happy to be able to do our work again.” The atmosphere is also good for visitors. Some even want to come every day: “Then we can taste more.”
smuggling booze
Festival-goers can expect changes. This year, for example, there is a fence around the site and the bags are checked at the entrance. According to De Ruijter, this is to prevent visitors from bringing their own drinks. “Certainly for people who are not very well off and do want to come for five days, it is understandable that you take something with you. “But those bags full of drinks, or the flash deliverers who get rich here…” according to the festival director, it is unfair to the entrepreneurs at the festival site: “They can be here thanks to the turnover of drinks.”
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Still, some festival-goers manage to smuggle a bottle of liquor onto the site unseen. “Because I’m here all weekend,” explains one visitor. “I already spend a lot of money on food. That is actually the case every year. And we had a bottle with us, otherwise we had to throw it away.”
Rolling Euros
Speaking of spending money, some visitors notice that the food and drink has become more expensive since the last edition. “I think 4.50 for a can of beer is expensive,” says a visitor. There is also understanding: “It is of course difficult to get staff in the catering industry and everything is also much more expensive. But it does mean that I buy a little less, yes.”
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