Pros
Nice side job if you want to supplement a full-time job, or if you only need to work a couple days a week. Pretty easy, straight-forward job, unless you are unlucky and get a cooking demo where you feature 4-6 products. People are usually really nice to you because you are feeding them, and it can be fun to interact with customers if you are a people person. It can be really rewarding to make a sale, but if you don't think you would care about making a sale or want to try to sell something then don't take this job.
Cons
I don't know why, but Crossmark continues to give people events where they have to try and sell a bunch of products at once. In my opinion this does not work as well as single product event, and is just super stressful. Get it together Crossmark! Customers can kind of be annoying and rude at times when they don't care what you are serving and just want to eat, but that will happen anywhere. Just have to let there rudeness roll off of you. You will be expected to use sales techniques and greet, tell and sell to every customer, which can be overwhelming at times when you are trying to cook and prepare samples at the same time. Sales goals can be outlandish, so don't expect to always reach them. Standing on your feet in one place for 6 hours can sometimes be difficult, so make sure to invest in good shoes and be in ok physical shape. If you are looking into this job be aware that the amount of hours you get from week to week are not consistent, because it depends on how many vendors purchase events, and if you have a nice manager, they will try to be fair and spread out hours evenly. You will get more hours if you try for a lead position, but it probably will still be part time. The low hours are what people complain about the most, but it is why I picked the job.
