What's Better Than A Carnival? Carnival Food Year Round
Memphis restaurant offers funnel cakes, candy apples, corn dogs and cotton candy every day.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- For some folks, the best part of going to a carnival is the food. You know, funnel cakes, candy apples, turkey legs, corn dogs, cotton candy, Polish sausage and the like.
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Carnival food.
Lynette Hill is using that principle to run a new type of restaurant in her hometown of Memphis. It's called Carnival Food Year Round and offers these tasty treats every day.
"Before we set up shop, you could only get this type of food maybe two weeks out of the year, when there's a country fair or the carnival was in town, or when you visited an amusement park," notes Hill. "We've found that these food items are popular all the time and built up a nice business around it.
"There's nowhere else in the USA you can walk into a place and purchase carnival food year round. We started out in our concession trailer at flea markets, school events, and local festivals, and now we've got a thriving, family-oriented restaurant that is unique."
Carnival Food Year Round (www.carnivalfoods.net) also offers traditional fare, like burgers, salads, chicken dishes and sandwiches. The core of the business, however, is the carnival food. Because it's such a unique culinary item, carnival food has been sold by Hill for fundraisers around the country.
Hill is now looking to expand the business. She wants to offer entertainment with the food, constructing a facility that has rides, a skating rink and popular carnival games. Basically, it will be an indoor carnival that runs year round: the Carnival Food Recreation Center.
Hill needs to raise about $500,000 to accomplish her goal. To generate this capital, she has launched two crowdfunding campaigns.
Her Kickstarter campaign is at www.kickstarter.com/projects/406931130/carnival-food-recreation-center.
The Indiegogo campaign is at www.indiegogo.com/projects/carnival-food-recreation-center.
Both web pages include a video that shows the types of food offered and how it is prepared.
Donations of any amount are welcome. Hill is hoping that food lovers around the country will help fund her expansion project, making Memphis the center of the carnival food universe.
"No one else is doing this," says Hill. "We are the only business that has combined the most popular profitable fair items into one menu, all year round."
For more, visit www.kickstarter.com/projects/406931130/carnival-food-recreation-center; www.indiegogo.com/projects/carnival-food-recreation-center; the website, www.carnivalfoods.net; or the Facebook page, www.facebook.com/pages/Carnival-Food-DBA-Kandy-Land/141908945847871.
Lynette Hill can be reached at 470-257-5077 or email.
SOURCE Carnival Food Year Round
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