Food & Beverage Volunteer Sign-Ups

The heart and soul of the festival – our famous food. Sometime between 1937 and today a local reporter coined us as “the festival that’s tops in food,” and we ran with it.

Check out all the ways you can help us making, dishing, and serving this amazing food (and adult beverages if you’re 21+).

Browse the work areas below and find one or more tasks or roles that feel like a good fit for you, or your kids, or your neighbor, or someone who owes you for the thing with the guy in the place.

Fish Prep Wednesday

Work Area Details

Thaw, separate, batter, bread, portion, and freeze about 1 ton of Cod the Wednesday of Festival Week.  It takes a lot of people – but many hands make light work! The major process is from Noon until about 4 pm, then cleanup. Great activity for families and other big groups – it’s a big social event in the garage.  We need people to batter and bread, some strong younger people to help carry stuff, and a few people to help wash the dishes.  The most popular fringe benefit of this “job” is the Quality Assurance part. We HAVE to test the fish, right?!?

June 18, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 18, 2025 Fish Prep 12:00 pm 4:00 pm 20 remaining:  
June 18, 2025 Runners 12:00 pm 4:00 pm 5 remaining:  
June 18, 2025 Dishwashers 1:00 pm 5:00 pm 4 remaining:  

Kitchen – Daytime Prep

Work Area Details

Help us prepare all the delicious food we sell at the Festival before the crowds arrive. We need lots of help in the air-conditioned kitchen for a variety of roles, including cutting, chopping, mixing, scooping, dishwashing, and cleaning up.  Most of these tasks can be done while sitting down. In case you missed it, this is a daytime role, during the week, in the AIR CONDITIONING!

June 16, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 16, 2025 Daytime Kitchen Worker 9:00 am 2:00 pm 8 remaining:  
June 17, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 17, 2025 Daytime Kitchen Worker 9:00 am 2:00 pm 6 remaining:  
June 18, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 18, 2025 Daytime Kitchen Worker 9:00 am 2:00 pm 7 remaining:  
June 19, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 19, 2025 Daytime Kitchen Worker 9:00 am 2:00 pm 8 remaining:  
June 20, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 20, 2025 Daytime Kitchen Worker 9:00 am 2:00 pm 6 remaining:  
June 21, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 21, 2025 Daytime Kitchen Worker 9:00 am 2:00 pm 6 remaining:  

Kitchen – During Event

Work Area Details

No matter what your skills are, join us in the air conditioned kitchen – the central hub for all of our famous food. Tasks include baking, cooking, heating, packaging, and portioning, (and sampling). This is the heart of our food operations during the Festival, and will be a complete supply chain for getting ready-to-sell food distributed to all of our dining locations. There are some stools for sitting but there will be standing too. The pace will vary depending on the crowds. It’s fun no matter what, time flies, and it’s a great social opportunity.  Be sure to keep that hair net on though! We’d rather the Department of Health inspectors enjoy dinner rather than fill out paperwork.

June 20, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 20, 2025 Event Kitchen Worker 3:45 pm 6:00 pm 6 remaining:  
June 20, 2025 Event Kitchen Worker 5:45 pm 8:00 pm 6 remaining:  
June 20, 2025 Event Kitchen Worker 7:45 pm 11:15 pm 4 remaining:  
June 21, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 21, 2025 Event Kitchen Worker 3:45 pm 6:00 pm 6 remaining:  
June 21, 2025 Event Kitchen Worker 5:45 pm 8:00 pm 6 remaining:  
June 21, 2025 Event Kitchen Worker 7:45 pm 11:15 pm 4 remaining:  

Indoor Serving Line

Work Area Details

Help us maintain the quick-moving food lines we’ve consistently improved the past few years. We need energetic people to be:

  • Expediters – a fast-paced role that receives the order ticket, assembles the to-go bag of food, and hands it to the Order Fulfiller. This role involves mostly standing and walking and is well-suited for teens and young adults, and especially anyone who has worked in fast food before.
  • Order Fulfillers – receive completed orders from the Expediters, calls out the customers’ names, and hands the bag(s) of food to the customer. This role can be performed standing or sitting, but requires someone with a loud voice to call out names over the crowd. This is the only chance you’ll ever get to use your “outdoor voice” inside a Catholic school!
June 20, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 20, 2025 Serving Line Expediter 4:30 pm 8:00 pm 9 remaining:  
June 20, 2025 Serving Line Expediter 7:30 pm 11:00 pm 10 remaining:  
June 20, 2025 Serving Line Order Fulfiller 4:30 pm 8:00 pm 2 remaining:  
June 20, 2025 Serving Line Order Fulfiller 7:30 pm 11:00 pm 2 remaining:  
June 21, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 21, 2025 Serving Line Expediter 4:30 pm 8:00 pm 10 remaining:  
June 21, 2025 Serving Line Expediter 7:30 pm 11:00 pm 10 remaining:  
June 21, 2025 Serving Line Order Fulfiller 4:30 pm 8:00 pm 2 remaining:  
June 21, 2025 Serving Line Order Fulfiller 7:30 pm 11:00 pm 2 remaining:  

Carry Out Serving Line

Work Area Details

Assemble orders by grabbing pre-packaged ready-to-sell food, bag it up, and hand it to customers in our Carry Out dining location. These positions will work in the garage at the west end of the main parking lot.  We need the most help during the busy dinner rush as people head home from work.

June 20, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 20, 2025 Carry Out Worker 4:30 pm 8:00 pm 4 remaining:  
June 20, 2025 Carry Out Worker 7:30 pm 11:15 pm 5 remaining:  
June 21, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 21, 2025 Carry Out Worker 4:30 pm 8:00 pm 4 remaining:  
June 21, 2025 Carry Out Worker 7:30 pm 11:15 pm 5 remaining:  

Dessert Room

Work Area Details

We have a variety of shifts and roles available, but none of them are bad because they all are around delicious desserts the whole time.

Day Before Prep: We need help on Thursday prepping the Dessert Room, pre-labeling containers, cutting desserts, and tidying up

Cut & Package: Cut desserts, put them in the proper labeled containers, and help determine where they need to go.

Runners: Deliver the desserts to our food serving lines in the Dining Room and Garage, take inventory at each location, and communicate needs back to the Dessert Room.

Closers: Help with remaining cutting and packaging for the night, organize desserts for the next night, and tidying up for the evening.

June 19, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 19, 2025 Dessert Room Prepper 5:00 pm 7:00 pm 4 remaining:  
June 20, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 20, 2025 Dessert Runner 3:30 pm 6:00 pm 3 remaining:  
June 20, 2025 Dessert Runner 6:00 pm 8:30 pm 3 remaining:  
June 20, 2025 Dessert Runner 8:30 pm 11:00 pm 2 remaining:  
June 20, 2025 Dessert Cut & Package 3:30 pm 6:00 pm 3 remaining:  
June 20, 2025 Dessert Cut & Package 6:00 pm 8:30 pm 6 remaining:  
June 20, 2025 Dessert Closer 8:30 pm 11:15 pm 2 remaining:  
June 21, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 21, 2025 Dessert Runner 3:30 pm 6:00 pm 3 remaining:  
June 21, 2025 Dessert Runner 6:00 pm 8:30 pm 3 remaining:  
June 21, 2025 Dessert Runner 8:30 pm 11:00 pm 2 remaining:  
June 21, 2025 Dessert Cut & Package 3:30 pm 6:00 pm 4 remaining:  
June 21, 2025 Dessert Cut & Package 6:00 pm 8:30 pm 6 remaining:  
June 21, 2025 Dessert Closer 8:30 pm 11:15 pm 2 remaining:  

Fish Wrapping

Work Area Details

Sit around a table in the shaded garage, have great conversation, all while wrapping a few thousand fish sandwiches as fast as they come out of the fryer and get sold – which is pretty darn fast. This is a very simple seated task, right in the middle of all the action in the Carry Out dining location.  PRO TIP: Don’t wear your Sunday best. You know those 12 year old tennis shoes you use for mowing or other icky work? Wear those. Trust us.

June 20, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 20, 2025 Fish Wrapper 3:00 pm 7:00 pm 8 remaining:  
June 20, 2025 Fish Wrapper 6:30 pm 10:30 pm 8 remaining:  
June 21, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 21, 2025 Fish Wrapper 3:00 pm 7:00 pm 7 remaining:  
June 21, 2025 Fish Wrapper 6:30 pm 10:30 pm 8 remaining:  

Drive-Thru Operations

Work Area Details

Drive-Thru Runners will assemble food and drink orders in the garage and deliver them to drive thru customers in the parking lot north of the garage.  This is a fast-paced role for energetic people of any age. Wear comfortable shoes and have fun setting land-speed records.  Shifts are broken down into 1-hour increments, but we encourage volunteers to sign up for multiple consecutive shifts. Feedback from the past 2 years has been that it’s fun, and often creates a competitive spirit among Runners!

Drive-Thru Order Takers will use portable iPads with our Square POS app to take orders car-side as customers drive through the parking lot (think Chick-fil-A format). You move car-to-car and the Runners follow-up by delivering the orders to the customers.

June 20, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 20, 2025 Drive-Thru Runner 4:50 pm 6:00 pm 4 remaining:  
June 20, 2025 Drive-Thru Runner 6:00 pm 7:00 pm 4 remaining:  
June 20, 2025 Drive-Thru Runner 7:00 pm 8:00 pm 4 remaining:  
June 20, 2025 Drive-Thru Runner 8:00 pm 9:15 pm 2 remaining:  
June 20, 2025 Drive-Thru Order Taker 4:50 pm 6:30 pm 2 remaining:  
June 20, 2025 Drive-Thru Order Taker 6:20 pm 8:00 pm 2 remaining:  
June 20, 2025 Drive-Thru Order Taker 7:50 pm 9:00 pm 2 remaining:  
June 21, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 21, 2025 Drive-Thru Runner 4:50 pm 6:00 pm 4 remaining:  
June 21, 2025 Drive-Thru Runner 6:00 pm 7:00 pm 4 remaining:  
June 21, 2025 Drive-Thru Runner 7:00 pm 8:00 pm 4 remaining:  
June 21, 2025 Drive-Thru Runner 8:00 pm 9:15 pm 2 remaining:  
June 21, 2025 Drive-Thru Order Taker 4:50 pm 6:30 pm 2 remaining:  
June 21, 2025 Drive-Thru Order Taker 6:20 pm 8:00 pm 2 remaining:  
June 21, 2025 Drive-Thru Order Taker 7:50 pm 9:00 pm 2 remaining:  

Casino Cafe

Work Area Details

Serve food and drinks to our casino patrons. It’s indoors and very well air conditioned. Sitting and standing/walking positions are available. You must be at least 18 years old because the Casino Cafe is within the charity gaming area. To serve alcohol, you must be at least 21 years old and have a valid Volunteer Employee Permit from the Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission.

June 20, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 20, 2025 Food Order Taker 4:45 pm 11:15 pm 2 remaining:  
June 20, 2025 Alcohol Permit Holder 4:45 pm 11:15 pm 1 remaining:  
June 20, 2025 Supply Runner 4:45 pm 11:15 pm 1 remaining:  
June 21, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 21, 2025 Food Order Taker 4:45 pm 11:15 pm 2 remaining:  
June 21, 2025 Alcohol Permit Holder 4:45 pm 11:15 pm 1 remaining:  
June 21, 2025 Supply Runner 4:45 pm 11:15 pm 1 remaining:  

Lemon Shake-Ups

Work Area Details

Shake up our deliciously famous Lemon Shake-Ups while enjoying the live bands in the main parking lot. Volunteers will mix and measure ingredients, shake them up in a martini shaker, and serve them to customers. This booth is outdoors but is covered by a 10′ x 10′ tent, right in the middle of all the fun and action.

June 20, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 20, 2025 Shake-Up Maker 4:50 pm 8:00 pm 2 remaining:  
June 20, 2025 Shake-Up Maker 7:50 pm 11:15 pm 2 remaining:  
June 21, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 21, 2025 Shake-Up Maker 7:50 pm 11:15 pm 2 remaining:  

Snack Trailer – Teen Zone

Work Area Details

Join the excitement in our new Teen Zone, selling popcorn, sno-cones, chips, candy, and more from the Snack Trailer to energetic teens and tweens.  You’ll be near our live DJ and all the fun in the front yard of the school.

June 20, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 20, 2025 Snack Peddler 4:45 pm 7:00 pm 2 remaining:  
June 20, 2025 Snack Peddler 7:00 pm 9:00 pm 1 remaining:  
June 20, 2025 Snack Peddler 9:00 pm 11:15 pm 3 remaining:  
June 21, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 21, 2025 Snack Peddler 4:45 pm 7:00 pm 3 remaining:  
June 21, 2025 Snack Peddler 7:00 pm 9:00 pm 1 remaining:  
June 21, 2025 Snack Peddler 9:00 pm 11:15 pm 3 remaining:  

Beer Garden

Work Area Details

Pour and serve ice cold beer from the tap, and pour wine into glasses. Cashiers are also needed. NOTE: Everyone consuming alcohol must be at least 21 years of age with a valid government-issued photo ID. All volunteers serving or selling beer or wine must be at least 21 years of age, and possess and active and valid Volunteer Employee Permit from the Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission. Volunteers may not consume any alcohol free of charge and may not consume alcohol while working a volunteer shift.

June 20, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 20, 2025 Beer Cashier 5:30 pm 11:00 pm 2 remaining:  
June 20, 2025 Beer/Wine Server 5:30 pm 11:00 pm 6 remaining:  
June 21, 2025
Date Role Start Time End Time Open/Filled Spots
June 21, 2025 Beer Cashier 5:30 pm 11:00 pm 2 remaining:  
June 21, 2025 Beer/Wine Server 5:30 pm 11:00 pm 6 remaining:  
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