Day two of the Taste of Minnesota is again bringing large crowds to downtown Minneapolis.
There were so many that came yesterday, a bunch of stands ran out of food.
Amy Coulius had to deal with customers who had lined up for lemonade, desserts, and other munchies.
"Some of them were upset, quite a few were angry," she said, sitting next to the Kraz'D Foodnatik food truck across the street from the main live music stage.
"(We) brought some more stuff later on in the afternoon, and I think we're going to make a mid-day run and re-stock," said Coulius, noting that the crowd was much bigger than anticipated on day one.
This is the first time the Taste of Minnesota came to downtown Minneapolis.
Before, it was staged on the wide-open spaces of the state capitol grounds, then across the Mississippi River in St. Paul on Harriet Island, before moving for its most recent two years to the Carver County Fairgrounds in Waconia.
Coulius isn't sure a festival like The Taste belongs in a confined area along city streets.
"I'm still up in the air on that," said Coulius, who worked at the taste in St. Paul back in the day. "I think there may be better locations."
For Dan Long, who also goes by the name "Cheddar Dog," his spot at the corner of 4th and Nicollet was just fine.
"We live over there in Nord'east, so it's not a far trip to come down here and smoke some meat," he said.
While many stands ran out of food on day one, Long and his coworkers at Anamales Barbeque food truck were well-stocked with chicken, ribs, and barbeque sauce.
"We expected it, we came prepared," he said. "This is kind of our game, we prepare for a lot of people and just have everything prepped and ready, utilizing everything we got and pulling out our A-Game."
Officials with The Taste had given guidelines to vendors about the anticipated size of the crowd, based on the number of people signing up on line for free tickets.
It turns out lots and lots of folks showed up without going online.
One Taste of Minnesota official said that at any particular moment during day one, there were more than 60,000 people crowded into the area on the north side of Nicollet Mall.