Boot-check Instructions
- Each item checked is $3. We will likely be able to accept credit cards.
- Boots, coats, and small items can go into bags; tape or staple ticket to bag. Make sure there is no tag attached to the bag left over from a previous event.
- For backpacks and other larger items attach tickets directly with twist-ties, tape or string.
- Please inform customers that we will close at 6:00. We cannot be responsible for unclaimed items.
- Please store items in numerical order ! ! !
- Store items with tags facing out for easy retrieval.
- In-and-out requires an additional donation, any amount is fine (but use your discretion). Please explain this to customers when they check their items in, so they can hang on to items they might need. (We’ve been inundated with in-and-outs in the past.)
- If it gets busy and a long line develops, don’t feel like to you need to stress or rush. It’s OK to have a line. Folks have to wait in line for drinks, food and the toilets. They can wait for their bags too!
- IMPORTANT - SECURITY: This is a very public space. If you have any suspicion about the nature of what is being checked, ask the manager for advice, or find Castro Street Fair security or police. Do not let any unauthorized person in the secure area, no matter how well you know this person. Volunteers and managers only!
- Proceeds and tips benefit The Sundance Association for Country-Western Dancing.
Wrangler Instructions
We are actively handing out just one postcard this year:
There is a box with hundreds of these flyers for this purpose! The idea is to get as many flyers out to as many people as possible who are watching the dancing. We have enough to distribute at least 200 Sundance Saloon flyers per 90-minute shift.
While we have lots of general flyers, we have relatively few of the October schedule. You can keep some October schedules in your back pocket and give them only to folks who show a special interest. Do not hand out the October schedules randomly.
Wander around the dance floor and pass these out to the crowd standing around the dance floor. (You can take an occasional dance break!) Don't go out to the street and give them to folks who aren't already engaged with us in some way.
Wander around the dance floor and pass these out to the crowd standing around the dance floor. (You can take an occasional dance break!) Don't go out to the street and give them to folks who aren't already engaged with us in some way.
You can go through the crowd fairly quickly. Many folks won’t want a flyer, and that’s OK, but you’ll find that many folks do accept them quite eagerly.
An important time to focus on this task is during and just after line dances, which tend to draw the biggest crowd of onlookers. And a critical time is right after lessons, as folks come off the dance floor. We want every lesson participant to get a postcard! Consider enlisting some temporary help at these times.
While most folks will take flyers passively, some will have questions for you. Take a little time (but not too much!) with these interested folks to encourage them to come. Give these folks (and only these folks) a detailed October schedule. Send them to the boot-check for more information. You can explain that we are open tonight, with beginning lessons starting at 5:30 pm.
