Steamboat Food & Wine Festival, October 1-4
COVID Mitigation Plan
Updated 23 July 2020
Steamboat Food & Wine Festival will comply with all Colorado & Routt County (and associated variances) health and safety laws, rules, and regulations.
General Participant Health
- Masks will be required for entrance to all events.
- A COVID health assessment will be sent to all registered guests in advance. Walk-up guests must complete the form on-site.
- Masks will be required for all vendors and employees, volunteers.
- If there is a confirmed case of COVID-19 among patrons or employees, Steamboat Food & Wine Festival will notify and cooperate with the local public health agency on next steps.
- When possible, events will be hosted outdoors. For indoor events, as much ventilation as possible will be in place (windows, doors).
List of Events
Opening Night: Theater / Film Screening
- Masks will be required for entrance.
- Theater seats between family/group pods will be blocked off to maintain physical distancing between groups.
- Food and beverage samples will be plated and poured by staff into one-time use serving containers.
Seminars/Demos/Dinners
- Masks will be required for entrance.
- These smaller events will be spaced to comply with requirements and associated variances in Routt County, to allow individuals or family pods to remain distanced.
- Capacities have been set to ensure appropriate spacing is taken into consideration.
- Individual glasses will be used for each wine sample, no re-pours will occur.
- Any food will be pre-plated and served by gloved and masked staff and not presented as shared.
Grand Tasting
- The highlight event has been broken into two, small-sized in-person gatherings that are organized/laid out to allow individuals to remain spaced at least 6 feet apart.
- Masks will be required for entrance.
- Masks will be required for all vendors and employees.
- SFWF will require all vendors and employees to monitor symptoms, maintain physical distancing, and the load-in/load out will occur at staggered times.
- PPE and hand washing/gloves change will be scheduled at regular intervals for employees and vendors.
- High touch areas will be sanitized during fixed intervals before, during, and after all events.
- There will be no shared items.
- There will be no self-service food, drink, utensils, or condiment stations.
- Patrons will be able to reserve tables for their groups, in appropriately distanced spacing.
- Food service at the Grand Tasting will be served and pre- plated, consumed at reserved tables.
- Patrons will be able to taste beer and spirits at the purveyor tables in single-serve, disposable glasses.
- In addition, each patron will receive 3 tokens good for one half glass of wine or beverage of choice to take to their table, so they can sit and enjoy their food and drink.
- Every effort will be made to minimize contact between guest and staff (physical space, physical distancing (current with recommended state physical distancing practices)
- Event diagrams will be prepared prior to event, reflecting physical distancing markers (current with most up-to-date state practices)
- SFWF will provide floor markers/graphics for queuing areas
- SFWF will provide signage for physical distancing practices
- Specific direction, i.e, ingress and egress will be provided for entry and exits
- Patrons will follow a one way traffic flow.
- COVID-19 signage will be placed throughout event (Identify signs of illness, handwashing/hand sanitizer, appropriate mask use, physical distancing)
- Handwashing stations/sanitizer will be provided throughout event