Become A Food Vendor

A woman at a Kona Ice truck serving a snow cone to a customer with curly hair. The truck has colorful branding and tropical fruit images.

The Cedar Rapids Freedom Festival is a weeklong festival leading up to the Fourth of July every summer in the Cedar Rapids, Iowa area. There are many opportunities for food vendors at our various events over the event-filled week. In 2026, we will have lots of opportunities for food vendors! If you are interested in being considered to be a food vendor at one or many of our events, please fill out the form below. By submitting the form you are agreeing to the terms and conditions of the festival and the individual events.

Additional information will be sent on acceptance of application. If you have any questions please email info@freedomfestival.com

Not a food vendor? Apply to be a market vendor instead! Visit the button below.

Terms and Conditions
Terms and Conditions
Become a sponsor
Become a sponsor
become a market vendor
become a market vendor
A girl wearing a red cap and red shirt with a white apron is baking pizza in a brick oven at an outdoor event, with cars and green trees in the background.
A lively outdoor fair with a food stand decorated in red, white, and blue banners and flags, selling fries, cheeseburgers, hot dogs, and drinks. People are gathered in line and sitting nearby, with a grassy hill and trees in the background.
Kona Ice food truck at an outdoor event with children and adults gathered around, colorful tropical graphics and a penguin mascot on the truck.
People at a food stand outdoors at a fair or festival, with vendors preparing food and customers waiting in line.
American flags flying over a carnival food stand decorated in red, white, and blue colors with signs advertising fried food items such as tenderloin, chicken n' fries, corn dogs, funnel cakes, fries, cheesy fries, hot dogs, and burgers.

Interested in becoming a vendor?
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Looking for more information on the events your applying for? Please find the listed events under the Events tab above.