Food and vendor discovery
Showcase participating restaurants and food vendors with photos, descriptions, menus, categories, and useful links.
Food, Wine & Beer Festival Apps
Help Guests Discover Every Taste and Pour
Bring food vendors, breweries, wineries, maps, and event schedules together in one branded app. Help guests explore what’s available, save favorites, and find their next stop.
Food and beverage partners
Built for food and beverage experiences
Core capabilities
Everything guests need to explore your festival
Breweries, wineries, and beverages
Help guests explore participating producers and their offerings through organized, searchable listings.
Maps and vendor locations
Connect guests with booths, tasting areas, stages, entrances, water stations, and other amenities.
Favorites and personal planning
Let guests save supported vendors, offerings, and events so they can return to the experiences that interest them.
Tastings, demonstrations, and entertainment
Organize scheduled tastings, chef demonstrations, talks, and performances by day, time, or location.
Alerts and festival updates
Share weather notices, schedule changes, reminders, and important event information.
Native app offline access
Built for event days—even when cell service isn’t.
Crowded fairgrounds. Remote festival sites. Busy convention halls. Grandstand’s native apps keep nearly all core app content available offline once it has downloaded, so attendees can keep exploring when reception is weak or unavailable.
Your team manages content in the web-based Grandstand Admin. The app downloads content to the device and checks for updates at supported refresh points when a connection is available. Between updates, visitors can continue using the content already stored on their phones.
Plan ahead: Download and open the app before arriving. New content updates and features that use online services require a connection.
Discover what’s available
Put your vendors and their offerings in the spotlight
Give guests a searchable guide to participating restaurants, food vendors, breweries, and wineries. Bring photos, descriptions, menus or beverage selections, and useful links together so visitors can explore before arriving and make their next choice during the event.
Using supported list features, organizers can group their own content into useful categories such as restaurants, desserts, craft beer, wine, spirits, and nonalcoholic beverages.
Find your next stop
Connect every listing to a location
Help guests move from discovering a vendor to finding its booth. Searchable maps can connect food and beverage listings with festival locations while making tasting areas, entertainment, entrances, and amenities easier to locate.
Organizers can use a supported custom festival graphic or create location content over supported native maps.
Plan the experience
Make room for the events guests don’t want to miss
Organize chef demonstrations, scheduled tastings, talks, and entertainment in one clear program. Guests can browse event details and save favorites to plan their visit around the experiences that interest them.
Saving a favorite helps a guest plan; it does not reserve a seat or purchase tasting admission.
Explore Event Schedules & Favorites
Keep guests informed
Share updates throughout the festival
Send timely notifications about schedule changes, weather, event reminders, and important announcements, with links to relevant information in the app.
Organizer tools
Keep your festival guide current without coding
Manage it yourself: Update vendors, beverage listings, schedules, maps, and announcements through Grandstand.
Get setup assistance: Design and content-loading help is available, with scope and fees depending on the selected package and services.
Reuse it for future events: Refresh participating vendors, offerings, schedules, and branding for the next festival.
App Analytics & Audience Insights
Discover What Guests Want to Try
See which food, beverage, and tasting information guests explore and save. Use those patterns to improve listings and help visitors discover more of your festival.
- Discover popular content: Review engagement with food, beverage, tasting, and vendor listings.
- Understand searches and favorites: Learn what guests try to find and choose to save, where those reports are available.
- Review activity over time: Understand app usage before, during, and after your festival.
Available reports vary by package. Platinum and Titanium include realtime activity from the last 30 minutes and geographic heatmaps of recorded app usage.
App and website
Update your festival app and website together
Manage supported vendor lists and schedules in Grandstand, then display that shared content in both your app and your festival’s existing website.
Additional fee: Web Widgets are a separate paid product.
Learn about Web WidgetsAdditional capabilities
More ways to engage guests and support partners
Coupons and rewards
Offer participating vendor and sponsor promotions using supported redemption options.
Scavenger hunts and discovery trails
Encourage guests to explore participating booths and locations through supported challenges and check-ins.
Voting, surveys, and live polls
With an eligible package, invite guests to choose favorites or share feedback through supported voting and survey tools.
Sponsors and advertising
Give partners visibility through banners, featured content, and sponsored activities.
Branded photo booth
Offer event-themed frames for photos guests can create and share.
Pages, search, and integrations
Keep visitor information easy to find and connect supported content sources.
Planning and purchasing
Food, wine, and beer festival app FAQs
How much does a food, wine, or beer festival app cost?
Pricing depends on the publishing option, package, and services you select. Review the Food, Wine & Beer Festival Pricing page or contact Grandstand for help choosing the right option.
Can we list food vendors, breweries, and wineries in the same app?
Yes. Organizers can create separate, searchable groups for restaurants, food vendors, breweries, wineries, and other participants in one festival guide.
Can listings include menus or beverage selections?
Yes. Organizer-provided listings can include supported text, images, documents, categories, and links for menus or beverage selections. Grandstand does not automatically sync live inventory or verify dietary and allergen information.
Can guests save favorites and find vendors on the map?
Supported listings, offerings, and events can be favorited, and vendor information can connect to searchable map locations. Favorites help guests plan; they do not reserve a seat, place an order, or purchase admission.
Can we use our existing festival map?
Yes. Festival teams can use a supported custom graphic such as a PDF, PNG, or JPG with searchable locations, or build location content over a supported native map.
Can our team update the app, and is setup help available?
Yes. Authorized staff can update vendors, beverage listings, schedules, maps, pages, and announcements with Grandstand’s browser-based tools. Design and content-loading assistance is available; scope and fees depend on the selected package and services.
Does the app work without cell service or Wi-Fi?
Yes. Grandstand’s native apps store downloaded content on the device, allowing visitors to keep using nearly all core app content without an internet connection. Visitors should download and open the app while connected before attending. A connection is needed to receive new content updates, push notifications, and access features that depend on online services.
How is our app published?
Grandstand offers publishing within a supported container app and stand-alone branded app-store options. Stand-alone apps require Apple and Google developer accounts and are subject to store review and approval. Availability, timing, and pricing vary by package.
Can we see how festival guests use our app?
Yes. Grandstand provides reporting on app usage and supported content activity, including views, favorites, shares, and searches. Available reports vary by package. Platinum and Titanium also include realtime analytics and geographic app-usage heatmaps. Explore App Analytics.
Bring your festival’s flavors together in one app
Start a free trial to explore the builder, or talk with Grandstand about the right publishing and service options for your food, wine, or beer festival.
View Food & Beverage Festival App Pricing