Pig & Whiskey 2021 Nonprofit Application

Thank you for your interest in participating in Pig & Whiskey 2021! Whether we’ve worked together in the past or this will be your first Troy Street festival, we ask that you please read the following and submit your application through this channel.

Please utilize this application to sign up for drink pouring on a per shift basis. For each shift, we require a minimum of three volunteers. This enables a minimum of two volunteers to bartend at a pouring station, as well as one volunteer that will be stationed at one of our festival entry/exit points. If you are signing up your group to bartend at Pig & Whiskey 2021, it is a requirement that at least one volunteer from your group is stationed at an entry/exit point. While your bartenders will be raising funds for your group with your tips, your entry/exit volunteer will be raising an extra $20/hr for your group. As an example - if you sign up for all five shifts at Pig & Whiskey, you’ll be raising $560 for your group before a single drink is poured. The duties for entry/exit are to ensure that no alcohol leaves or comes into the event. Entry/exit workers are not security - Ferndale Police are on site, and can be radioed for any needs.

Pig & Whiskey will have a variety of bar stations. Smaller groups may be stationed at whiskey tasting areas - you’ll be stationed at one brand’s table, and only be responsible for pouring that brand’s whiskey. Other larger groups may be stationed at full service bars - serving cans of beer and cider as well as select brands’ liquor, or a full selection of cocktails. Depending on where you’re placed, you will be receiving bar guides with specific training from Jesse Shepherd-Bates (WABco General Manager). If you’re pouring at Pig & Whiskey 2021, please send these bar guides to all your volunteers.

The days of drink tickets are over! No matter where you’re stationed, you’ll be accepting both cash and credit on a Square device. We launched this new system at DIY Street Fair, and nonprofits made more in tips than ever before - due in no small part to tip prompts with every transaction, rather than trying to squeeze tips out of guests that have already completed financial transactions in the drink ticket lines. 100% of cash tips and 85% of credit card tips go to your group. The 15% of credit card tips covers the credit card service charge on every tip, as well as the extra staff needed to to back up your crew. At the end of each shift, all cash tips will be verified by your group’s representative and our Pig & Whiskey Bar Captain, then collected by the bar captain. Checks will be available for pickup Wednesday, November 3 at 11am at The Emory, and will include your cash tips, credit tips, and entry/exit hours.

Expectations for your group during Pig & Whiskey 2021

-All volunteers must be aged 18 and over.

-Absolutely no drinking will be tolerated while volunteers are working.

-All drinks must be rung in. We will have product counts regarding every bottle and can that goes to your station, and any missing product will be deducted from your payout at festival’s end.

-Bring your own tip jar and nonprofit swag. You may sell merch to festival goers, but all banks must be separate from festival banks.

-We want beautiful drink stations for our guests! Please keep an eye on trash and recycling as it gathers at your station, and remove and reline bags as containers fill up. Our grounds team will be around to collect bags - but we don’t want to wait if anything fills up fast.

-Volunteers will be required to help condense their product and close down/clean their stations as any bartender would at night’s end, and help close their stations down at festival’s end. This may include but will not be limited to condensing product, removing lights and signage. Your bar captain will be able to give guidance about festival wrap up so there are no surprises.

-Face masks are required for all volunteers and festival staff while working.

-Don’t sign up for more shifts than you can actually staff. If you have volunteers flake and we need to scramble to cover a pouring station or entry/exit position, the $20/hr needed to cover said position will come out of the amount given to your nonprofit at festival’s end.

Thank you for reading all this, and for your interest in our festival! If you have any questions you’d like to discuss before applying, please contact Jesse at jesse@wabcoindustries.com.