Opa! Greek Festival to add sales after power outage

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — If you didn’t get your fill of baklava because of the power outage on the last day of Greek Festival, don’t despair.

Festival organizers plan to have three days of specialty food sales at Holy Trinity Cathedral to try to recoup the revenue that was lost when the festival ended three hours early on Sunday, May 25.

Because the outage was not announced in advance, the first sign that something was wrong came when cash registers at the entrance gates stopped working at about 5 p.m.

At the same time, the main food hall inside the Cathedral went dark as servers hurried to fill to-go plates of moussaka and dolmades, and the musicians noticed their amplifiers conked out on stage. Suddenly, ice and cold drinks were in short supply on one of the hottest afternoons of May.

Festival organizer Alexandra Megilligan told WGNO that an estimated 2,500 people either left the festival when the power went out or did not come in. Megilligan also said the outage resulted in an estimated 60% loss of expected sales during that three-hour period

To try to recoup some of the lost revenue, the Festival will hold three days of food sales this week at the Cathedral.

Anyone who’d like to savor the taste of Greece just a little longer will be able to buy some of the pastries and other food items, like imported olives, cheeses and wine, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m.

“We may extend the sale a little bit longer in the afternoon, ” said Megilligan, “If we still have people trickling in.”

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