So I found some statistics...
Here's a wrap up containing some numbers of interest that occurred during Summerfest 2002...
ATTENDANCE
TOTAL FESTIVAL ATTENDANCE:
1,013,182
NEW SINGLE-DAY ATTENDANCE RECORD:
138,862 on Friday, July 5, 2002
(previous record 138,854 on July 3, 1998 )
SUMMERFEST PINS
TOTAL ESTIMATED SALES: 90,000
TOTAL PIN FREE ADMISSIONS:
96,442
TOTAL GATE PROMOTION FREE ADMISSIONS:
89,724
TOTAL FREE ADMISSIONS TO SUMMERFEST:
186,166
% OF ALL PATRONS GAINING FREE ADMISSION:
18%
FOOD STATISTICS
Aladdin’s Chicken Shish-Ke-Bob’s
5,000
Catalano Fresh Fruit Cups
3,500
Catalano—Grapes & Cherries
Over 2,500 orders
Cedar Crest Ice Cream
4,251 gallons
Costa’s Lemonade
13,500 lemons
Crawdaddy’s Alligator on a Stick
5,000
Crawdaddy’s Jambalaya
7,000
Crawdaddy’s Crazy Cajun Stuffed Bread
5,000
Catfish from the Crawfish Trap
over 9,000 pounds
Culvers Butter Burger
32,000
Culvers Custard
35,000 scoops
Culvers French Fries
9,500 pounds
Dippin’ Dots
over 16,500 cups
Earl’s Southern Barbecue
5,000 pounds BBQ pork
Greek Village Gyros Sandwiches
30,000
Greek Village Shish Kebobs
15,000
Gus’ Mexican Enchiladas
7,500
Gus’ Tacos
6,000
Gus’ Deluxe Burritos
5,000
Hometown Ice
763,000 pounds
Mader’s Sauerbraten
1 ton
Major Goolsby’s Hamburgers
13,000 pounds
Martino’s French Fries
10,000 pounds
Martino’s Chicago-Style Hot Dogs
50,000
Millie’s Italian Sausage Sandwiches
10,8000
Monreal’s Turkey Legs
16,000
Monreal’s Chicken
15,160 pounds
Nicolet Natural Spring Water
over 170,000
Pepsi-Cola Summerfest Souvenir Cups
182,000
Piggly Wiggly Boca Burgers
3,000
Piggly Wiggly Slushy Snowbasts
over 5,500
Pitch’s Flowering Onion & Loaves
9,000 onions
Pizzeria Uno Pizza Slices
20,348 slices
Saz’s Cheese Curds
6.6 tons
Saz’s Mozzarella Marinara
8.2 tons
Saz’s BBQ Pork
2.5 tons
Saz’s Sour Cream and Chive Fries
18 tons
Schwabenhof Funnel Cakes
39,000
Schwabenhof New York Strip Steak
6,500
Shakey’s Mojo’s
1.5 tons potatoes
Shakey’s Pizza
18,000
Starbucks Coffee-Espresso Drinks
over 10,000
Suzy’s Cheesecake by Ultimate Confections
14,000 slices
Toys Egg Rolls
12,000
Toy’s Crab Rangoon
8,500
Ultimate Confections Chocolate Covered Strawberries
21,000
Venice Club’s Eggplant Strips
35,000
SUMMERFEST FUN FACTS
- Milwaukee World Festival employees utilize 325 two-way radios and 12 frequencies during Summerfest.
- Summerfest’s web site, summerfest.com, received 80,224,984 hits from April 1 through the morning of July 7, 2002 (final day of Summerfest). The average hits per day for June were 51,620, and the busiest single day on the web site occurred on opening day, June 27, when the site received 3,655,58 hits. During the month of June 449,905 unique visitors accessed the site.
- Aside from the United States, the top five countries visiting the Summerfest web site were Canada, Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom and Australia.
- Over 36,500 shots were attempted at the Hole-In-One golf area, and of that, two were Hole-In-Ones!
- Patrons used 8,100,000 feet of toilet paper (1,534 miles).
- Patrons used 2,550,000 feet of paper toweling (483 miles) at Summerfest.
- There were 32,000 trash liners used.
- 34,000 pounds of heavy-duty rubber bands were utilized to secure trash lines to the trash receptacles.
UPCOMING FESTIVALS ON THE SUMMERFEST GROUNDS
FESTA ITALIANA...JULY 18-21
GERMAN FEST...JULY 26-28
AFRICAN WORLD FESTIVAL...AUGUST 2-4
IRISH FEST...AUGUST 15-18
MEXICAN FIESTA...AUGUST 23-25
LABOR FEST...SEPTMEBER 2
INDIAN SUMMER...SEPTEMBER 6-8
ARABIAN FEST...SEPTEMBER 13-15
ooh, and Prince will be playing this year, too!!!)
