Fishermen's Festival Fish Fry by the numbers
Below are some statistics and information about the 2013 Fishermen's Festival Fish Fry.
A total of 772 fish sandwiches were sold in three hours; then we sold just fish baskets with no buns.
Customers ate seven cases potato chips (25 pounds to a case) and two large cases of pickles.
People waited in line up to 30 minutes, due to the line being from the door of Mine Oyster upstairs to Pier 1 Pizza.
At the waterfront, we sold out of 175 pounds of french fries and 13 gallons of fish chowder.
List of items donated to the Fishermen’s Festival Fish Fry:
Donations of fish (in pounds) from the following businesses and individuals:
McSeagull's: 50
Knot Gray’s Wharf: 25
Mill Cove: 50
Performance Food Group: 50
Maine Shellfish: 50
Bet’s Fish Fry: 25
Robinson’s Wharf: 25
Kaler’s Crab and Lobster House: 100
Gilmore’s Seafood: 50
Sysco: 50
Cozy Harbor Seafood: 50
Perkins Paper: 50
Fisherman’s: Wharf 25
Rocktide Inn: 25
Gilmore’s Seafood: 25
Brown's Wharf: 25
Newagen Seaside Inn: 25
Other donations made to the Fish Fry by businesses and individuals:
Robinson’s Wharf: Plastic forks and knives, and breadcrumbs
The Lobster Dock: 1 case of cocktail sauce (4 gallons)
Country Kitchen: 650 count bulky rolls
Pepsi: Donated all the soda for the event, 50 cases
Ocean Point Inn: 1 case of tartar sauce (4 gallons) and 1 case of gherkin pickles
The Tugboat Inn: 1 case of tartar sauce (4 gallons)
Caprara Foodservice Equipment: $200
McSeagull’s: Ten 35-pound jugs of frying oil.
McCain Foods USA: Eight 24-pound cases of sliced potato chips for frying
Brewer’s Dairy: All the half & half and butter for a haddock chowder
Andrews' Harborside: Chowder cups and soup spoons. Craig Andrews cooked the fish chowder
Supplies Unlimited: Screen printing and T-shirts
Brown Signs: Painted sign of all the donors to the Fish Fry
Friendliest Catch Lobster Tours: $40 for ketchup
Federal Distributors: Capt. Eli’s Root beer
Perkins Paper: 1 case of napkins, 1 case of two ounce portion cups, and 1 case of 2 ounce portion cup lids and food trays.
Harbor Depot: 1 bag of clam fry
Kaler’s: Malt vinegar
Hannaford: Tin foil, gherkin pickles and evaporated milk
Volunteers: There were at least 25 (if not more)
The Fishermen’s Festival was a huge success this year and it was because of all of the hard work, dedication and donations from the community and local businesses.