Food Truck Terms & Conditions
By submitting an application for Mexted Motors Spring into Tawa 2025, you agree to the following terms and conditions:
An application for a stall does not guarantee you space at Mexted Motors Spring into Tawa 2025. Event organisers reserve the right to allocate space for food trucks based on the best interests of the event. This helps to ensure a wide variety in the type of stalls at the event.
Where we have more applications than we can accommodate for a particular type of food, past food vendors and locally (Tawa) based food vendors will be given first preference. After that, ensuring a wide variety of food on offer and date of application may be used to determine space allocations.
Food truck placements will not be allocated until payment is received. One reminder past the final due date (13 September) will be sent. After that, your place may be offered to someone on our waiting list.
A cancellation policy applies. Cancellation of your space before 21 September will entitle you to a full refund of your fee. Cancellation between 22 September and 5 October will entitle you a 50% refund of your fee. Cancellation on or after 6 October will not entitle you to refund of any of your fee.
The event is an open air event and goes ahead unless the weather makes it unsafe to proceed.
The event organisers reserve the right to cancel in the event of unsafe weather conditions, if there are restrictions on social gatherings or on the advice from local, civil or national authorities that the event should not proceed. There is no postponement or alternative date if the event is canceled due to one of these reasons. There will be no refund of fees if the event is canceled for one of these reasons after 6 October. Cancellation due to any of these factors prior to 6 October will see our cancellation and refund policy outlined in condition 4. apply.
It is the food truck’s responsibility to bring appropriate shelter for their truck. This includes the necessary gazebo and/or table weights. Event organisers reserve the right to require food trucks to take down shelters or gazebos that are not appropriately weighted or secured. Food trucks must not secure their gazebo or shelter to any fixed structure, or to another food truck or stallholder’s structure without permission of the structure owner and/or a Mexted Motors Spring into Tawa Committee member (Yellow high-vis vest with “COMMITTEE” printed on the back).
Mexted Motors Spring into Tawa 2025 is continuing to reduce the amount of waste generated by the event and reduce our impact on the environment. To support that, we are a plastic bag free event. Food trucks will not be able to provide plastic bags for people purchasing items at the event. We ask that all food trucks reduce the amount of plastic that they use in their packaging and display.
In addition, balloons that are single use, plastic and/or non-biodegradable are now banned from the event. Stallholders must not use these products in their display or as giveaways to customers.
All food trucks and sellers MUST use locally compostable, reusable or recyclable packaging for their food and drinks. This includes containers, plates, cups, cutlery and napkins. To be compostable, the packaging must be accepted by Wellington City Council's Capital Compost Facility. Here is the guide of approved products. Stallholders not using sustainable packaging will not be able to sell their products. Sustainable packaging should not have stickers or advertising placed on it that means it is not able to be composted or recycled.
We will be running a campaign to encourage attendees to bring their own coffee cups and food containers. In order to support this campaign, you will need to accept the use of people’s own containers.
All food sellers are required to register with event organisers using the application form by informing us that they are selling food. This is a Wellington City Council requirement. Failure to disclose selling food ahead of the event will result in that stallholder being unable to sell food.
Food must not be given away (except small samples with the direct and express purpose of selling that product at the event).
Food trucks are required to have the appropriate certification to operate, and must provide details of this with their application. Food Truck operators will need to produce a copy of the certificate if required by the event organisers. Failure to do so may mean your application is not considered.
Food trucks are required to bring a minimum of 30m of cables. If you are unable to connect to the generators due to insufficient cables, this may mean you are not able to set up for the event.
All cords, extension cords and electrical items must have current electrical tags. If equipment or cords do not have current tags, you will not be permitted to use festival generators to power your food truck.
Mexted Motors Spring into Tawa is organised by a small volunteer committee on behalf of the Tawa Resident’s Association.
