For months, Ami DiPasquale kept calling, texting and emailing, trying to recover the thousands of dollars she says she earned at the Toronto Festival of Beer last year.
The replies hardly came. Then came the notice: the decades-old festival is bankrupt.
DiPasquale co-owns Heirloom Food Company, an Etobicoke-based catering and food truck business operating for nearly a decade.
She says her company is selective about festivals but had been a vendor at this beer festival for years.
The Toronto Festival of Beer, helmed by President Les Murray, has run for nearly 30 years out of Bandshell Park at Exhibition Place where local vendors and independent brewers serve guests.
Last year, however, the festival moved to the Toronto Event Centre.