Over the weekend, a crowd of lunatics in the Big Apple treated themselves to the very first “BrunchCon” at the Grand Prospect Hall in Brooklyn (natch). The event featured 50 restaurants, an open mimosa bar, brunch “goods” for sale, a Hangover Lounge full of greasy food, and… speed dating. Those in attendance paid between $55 and $95 and apparently, it wasn’t a wonderful value to remember for decades. Shocker.
Been waiting online in the cold to get into #brunchcon in #nyc for over an hr. Bad reports coming frok inside. Hope it's actually worth it.
— Emma Wells (@emmaw291) March 26, 2017
Bummer. But, are you really that surprised? According to reports, the event was oversold and a huge hit among those who love waiting in lines. A reporter for Metro found that the line to enter the event took some people an hour and a half.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BSGwuMajSwr/
Instead of decadent shrimp cocktails and oozing eggs benny, attendees were shocked to find even more lines when they got through the doors! Based on the flood of Instagrams using the tag #brunchcon, there was plenty of champagne or at the very least, the were plenty of champagne props.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BSHR2hwF9DA/?taken-by=joyker_
https://www.instagram.com/p/BSHnvA8j_a7/?taken-by=kerioke5678
They should’ve called this thing Champagne-Prop-Con AMIRITE?! Seriously though, you know the people at this event were just dying to stand on a chair and use their friends’ flashlight apps to capture their bacon-stuffed-olive-branch-growing-french-toast-smothered Bloody Mary. Which makes it VERY suspicious that almost every Instagram post from this event featured a posey, foot-popping gal, holding the same blowup champagne bottle as the other 500 people before her.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BSHWMsMDpzh/?taken-by=lillianna_marie
https://www.instagram.com/p/BSHOO4Tgowk/?taken-by=mona_lisap
Are you seeing it now?
Reports from the event also pointed out overflowing garbage cans and a slippery, beverage-soaked floor.
way oversold, couldn't move or get food or drinks and garbage everywhere 😢
— Taste Agent (@TasteAgent_) March 27, 2017
As you can probably imagine, the more the 2,000 person crowd of at least tipsy people wasn’t the friendliest bunch, especially considering quite a few vendors actually ran out of food. It’s pretty safe to say there was only one real winner at the end of BrunchCon. So, congratulations to Korbel, your participation in the event garnered more marketing than any other campaign ever devised, probably.
(Via Grub Street)
