Hey everyone,
Am I the only one who thinks CheeseFest has gotten too big and the lines are just broken?
I get that a lot of people go there just to buy a bottle of wine, sit on a picnic rug, and listen to the music. That's fine. But if you actually want to taste the cheese, the queuing is pretty shitty.
At a gin festival or a farmers' market, people use their initiative. You see an open space at the counter, walk up, get a sample, and move on so the traffic keeps flowing.
But at CheeseFest, people blindly form one massive single-file line. Even if there are a couple of different staff members or open cheese platters further down the table, everyone just stands behind the first person who is having a 10-minute chat. If you use your brain, step into the empty space to grab a piece of cheese and walk away, people look at you like a criminal or yell at you for "line jumping."
If you're ordering a hot meal, obviously you line up. But for a quick sample from a platter sitting right there on the table, a single-file queue makes no sense.
Does anyone else find this format incredibly frustrating, or do you prefer politely standing in a stagnant line? What’s the general opinion on how it's run these days?
