DULLES, Va. (7News) — Vendors and shoppers were set to pack the Dulles Town Center Expo and Event Center this weekend for the DMV Chocolate and Coffee Festival until organizers announced abruptly the festival was canceled.
“It’s not a situation where you can do an easy pivot and find an equivalent event; these events just don’t exist, so now we’re just trying to survive,” said Dane Brennan, co-owner of Blue Ridge Pickling. His business sells locally sourced, gourmet, and handcrafted pickle products.
The website for the DMV Chocolate and Coffee Festival, put on by Pathway Vendors LLC, advertises hundreds of vendors set to attend. Now some of those vendors told 7News they are frustrated and confused…