DANK Haus - sausage sale

Due to the cold, wet weather this past weekend, the Maifest in Lincoln Square was poorly attended. DNA info reports that the DANK Haus is selling provisions left over from their food tent operations: white brats, Thuringers, landjäger (dried sausage) and leberkäse. I saw a banner for Schmeissers Sausage at the fest, so I am guessing that they may be the supplier.

The Maifest is the main annual fundraiser for the DANK Haus and its education programs, so if you'd like to help them make up their losses from the fest, consider making a purchase (this week only). Email or call in your order before making a pick up.

9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Tuesday
10 a.m. - 7:30 p.m., Wednesday
noon - 6 p.m., Thursday
9 a.m. - 3 p.m., Friday
10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Saturday

DANK Haus
4740 N. Western Ave.

773-561-9181
doerthe@dankhaus.com

They also have half sheet pans of bienenstich, apple cake and brownies for $35.

I saw this yesterday also, and my first thought was... $7/lb for leftover sausages is a sale price? If they're just soliciting pity donations, they should probably just call it what it is.

laikom wrote:I saw this yesterday also, and my first thought was... $7/lb for leftover sausages is a sale price? If they're just soliciting pity donations, they should probably just call it what it is.

I know. Crazy, right?

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I guess you guys aren't getting it. This is fresh, uncooked product and this is the largest fundraiser for this non-profit organization. They're trying to save their hides. Go to Paulina Market, you'll pay over $9 per pound.

I get it. It's $5.99/lb retail at Schmeissers, so they were surely much cheaper at that scale, and/or as a sponsor of the event. A similar product at the closest shop, Gene's, is $4.99/lb. Yes, it's true Paulina meat market overcharges for meats. They once tried to sell me veal bones for $9/lb. I also get that it is a non-profit fundraiser, my concerns are for the fact that they would probably make up some of their losses by pricing them more reasonably.

Hi,

My sympathies on the outcome of this event. I completely understand DAnkHaus's wish to recover as much as possible their costs. A losing event is not an easy situation to recover from, especially when so much is riding on the resulting income.

Where some might chose to say those prices are crazy. I can sense there is some desperation on the organizer's part. It is likely they paid wholesale, so pricing at retail is not unreasonable especially since people can find comparatives.

I once attended a Civil War Ball where the overall event was rained out. I sat with the organizers, though I felt like I was at a funeral. Those ladies spent the entire dinner trying to think of ways to salvage this important fundraising event.

It not fun to be on the losing end of event which lost money. Again, my sympathies.

Regards,

Yeah, it's a tough spot they're in but that's a really high price for someone to pay for leftover, raw sausage; especially stuff that one can pretty readily buy elsewhere. You just can't sell that type of product for the same price you could sell ready-to-eat sausage at a Street Festival.

Considering the perishability factor, I think they'd recover more of their investment offering it at, or slightly below, cost.

Are they at least appealing to their core contributors to help cushion the blow?

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ronnie_suburban wrote:Are they at least appealing to their core contributors to help cushion the blow?

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I am sure that is who they hope will pay the premium for this.

It is a nightmare to have an investment in perishables.

Regards,

DNA info wrote:Meat, fully cooked and vacuum sealed: five-pound packs of bratwurst or thuringer for $35;,

The brats are cooked.

These are pre-cooked, vacuum-packed from the butcher. They were not cooked at the fest.

My last words on this subject. I guess if you don't have kids, the cost here is hard to swallow. But, as a parent and person who lives in a neighborhood where kids are often fundraising, this is no different than Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, raising money for class trip etc. No one blinks when the Girl Scouts sell boxes of cookies for $4 a box, when you can buy similar tasting Keebler on sale for half the amount. The Boy Scouts sell popcorn and Christmas wreaths for much more than I can buy them elsewhere. We've shopped Market Day to support the music program, bought wrapping paper and calendars to support trips. I could go on. And as far as Maifest, all sorts of people pay $6.50 or whatever it is for one brat, but I'm going to pay $7 a pound and get about five brats a pound.

DANK Haus is trying trying to cover their costs; they're not going to come out ahead. It's not just the food costs that they're losing. And by the way, the thuringer is sold out.

Ms. Ingie wrote:My last words on this subject. I guess if you don't have kids, the cost here is hard to swallow. But, as a parent and person who lives in a neighborhood where kids are often fundraising, this is no different than Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, raising money for class trip etc. No one blinks when the Girl Scouts sell boxes of cookies for $4 a box, when you can buy similar tasting Keebler on sale for half the amount. The Boy Scouts sell popcorn and Christmas wreaths for much more than I can buy them elsewhere. We've shopped Market Day to support the music program, bought wrapping paper and calendars to support trips. I could go on. And as far as Maifest, all sorts of people pay $6.50 or whatever it is for one brat, but I'm going to pay $7 a pound and get about five brats a pound.

DANK Haus is trying trying to cover their costs; they're not going to come out ahead. It's not just the food costs that they're losing. And by the way, the thuringer is sold out.

I always appreciate your posts about the events at Dank Haus - living where I do makes it tough to come down, but I enjoy reading about them. I hope you continue to post about them here -

I would have no problem paying a couple dollars more a pound for a fundraising effort to help support Dank Haus - guessing I blow more than a few bones around town that could be put towards a better cause than spices and brown liquor.

Really found the history of the building they occupy interesting - Originally built for the Three Links Organization aka - the Independant Order of Oddfellows - I have seen their inscriptions(crest) on some small town former halls in my travels..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independen ... dd_Fellows