Cookie Booth: Types & Styles
Design your sale for SUCCESS! Booth Sales can aid the troop towards their goals and can take many forms and shapes. One of the 5 Skills, DECISION MAKING, requires girls to decide what works best for their cookie business, a drive-thru booth with curbside service, a traditional walk-up booth or a more techy option, a virtual booth.
Three Types of Cookie Booths Cookie Booths/drive thru are a sales tool for troops where businesses grant advanced permission for Girl Scouts to sell cookies at their business.
1 Council Secured Locations
Dillons, most Walmart locations, and other select retail locations will be secured by GSKH. This means that the ONLY communication to these businesses is made by the council. If GSKH is successful in securing a location, it will be listed on the Booth Scheduler and is part of the Cookie Booth Lottery process. Troops can begin entering requests in the Smart Cookies Booth Lottery as soon as they are listed in Smart Cookies. January 9 at Midnight, is the deadline to enter requests to be included in the lottery selection process. On January 10, the Cookie Booth Lottery selection process runs in Smart Cookies. Troops will be assigned up to THREE booth time slots through the lottery process. This process is run by Smart Cookies; GSKH is not able to control the outcome. Smart Cookies uses the preferences entered by the troops to generate the assignments, so be sure to list your first booth choice first, then your second choice and so on, up to 20 choices. The more you enter the better your chances of being assigned three booth time slots. Lottery results are final.
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Emails are generated from Smart Cookies to notify troops of their booth assignments. NOTE: To receive email notifications, the Troop Cookie Manager must enter an email address on the Troop’s Information page in Smart Cookies.
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Troop Secured Locations Troops are encouraged to secure Cookie Booth Locations on their own — churches, retail stores, schools, colleges, restaurants and sporting events are a few options. Requests for new booth locations secured by troops begins Jan. 7 in Smart Cookies. When a troop has secured a location/date/time, the troop needs to REQUEST A NEW LOCATION on the Smart Cookies Booth Scheduler. GSKH will approve or decline the booth in Smart Cookies. Once the booth is approved, the booth is scheduled to the troop and will be listed under Reserved Booth Sales in Smart Cookies.
3 Virtually Secured
Utilizing your individual Troop Link and/or QR code located in Smart Cookies troops are able to provide a hands-free no contact pay online opportunity for sales. See page 18 for details.
First Come, First Serve After the lottery assignment process, troops may select additional council coordinated booths on a First Come, First Serve basis starting January 30 at 5 PM. • Maximum 3 additional booths: Jan 30 • Maximum increases to 6 booths on Feb 6 • Maximum increases to 12 booths on Feb 13 • Maximum increases to 24 booths on Feb 20 GSKH tries to have all the council secured locations listed in Smart Cookies by Jan 7. However, some businesses are unable to commit to a booth sale at the time of request. If you don’t see a business that has been a council secured booth location in the past, please contact the Product Program staff prior to contacting the business.
CANCELLATIONS: If you need to cancel a booth, please cancel it in Smart Cookies and contact the Council. Other troops may be waiting for a booth sale location.
