California Restaurant Show 2027Exhibitor guide: booth costs, dates and deadlines

On this compact floor the tier that fits is usually a rental: $3,500 to $8,000 for a 10×10 and $7,500 to $15,000 for a 10×20, while a custom 20×20 island runs $50,000 to $120,000. Here the price moves with live cooking equipment, refrigeration and corner placement. Restaurant Events bills space separately: $41.25 per square foot in 2026, plus $350 per corner.

Manufacturers and distributors can, provided every serving stays sample-sized, the condition the organizer sets on its booth-rate page. A seated tasting or customer lunch becomes a catering order from Aramark Sports & Entertainment, the Anaheim Convention Center's exclusive food and beverage provider, and we place it for you. Behind the counter we build cold holding and a plating station so staff serve quickly.

Early: Restaurant Events reported a sold-out exhibit hall in 2025. You email the account executive with the space you want, and once your rep has your company details the organizer sends a link and password for the online booth contract. On our side, approving the design in early July 2027 leaves room for production in Fishkill and lands your crates at the advance warehouse on time.

Yes. A rental here is a lit fabric wall plus a demo or tasting counter with lockable storage, shipped both ways, installed and dismantled under one fixed proposal. For pizza and equipment brands we can pair a rented wall with a custom oven counter from our Fishkill, NY shop, which then travels with you to later shows.

Only a display one person can assemble without tools in under 30 minutes, with no piece longer than 10 feet. The building does not require union labor, yet unions are represented there and most contractors use union crews, so anything heavier goes to contracted labor. We book that labor, and our project manager runs it on the floor.

Pizza oven, dough, cheese and box suppliers are who it is built for: pizza-focused products, equipment and ingredients around the California Pizza Challenge, which Real California Milk sponsors and the US Pizza Team hosts. The pavilion page links straight to the floorplan and booking, so we pick a pavilion booth with you before you sign and order the oven's power with the rest of your electrical.

Budget roughly $170 to $180 per 100 pounds, our Anaheim planning figure for 2026 and 2027, with every shipment billed as at least 200 pounds; the contractor's tariff in the exhibitor kit sets the binding rate. Combi ovens, deck ovens and product cases carry most of a restaurant booth's weight, so we weigh each crate before it leaves Fishkill and list the drayage estimate on your proposal.

Yes. In 2026 Shepard was the booth-service contractor, from furniture to shipping, and we place material handling, flooring and furniture with the 2027 contractor once its kit opens. We also order power for every appliance from the show's electrical provider and file the building's catering and internet requests, then send you one calendar of every order deadline.

The counters and walls we build for Anaheim travel well to International Pizza Expo in Las Vegas, to Natural Products Expo West in this same building each March, or to the New York Restaurant Show, which Restaurant Events runs at the Javits Center. We keep the booth in storage between dates, reprint only the headers that name the show and route it to the next advance warehouse.

Sunday, September 12 to Tuesday, September 14, 2027, at the Anaheim Convention Center. The show floor opens at 10 a.m. each day, closing at 5 p.m. on Sunday and Monday and at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, and badge pick-up starts at 8:30 a.m. The 2026 edition ran August 23–25 in the same building.

Back at the Anaheim Convention Center, 800 W. Katella Avenue, for a third straight year; the 2024 edition was held at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Restaurant Events publishes the 2027 floor plan online, Connections Housing is the official housing partner, and Visit Anaheim puts John Wayne Airport (SNA) 13 miles from Anaheim.

More than 7,000 restaurant, foodservice and hospitality professionals attended in 2026, buyer attendance grew 6% over 2025, and over 88% of attendees were decision-makers. The 2025 show drew more than 7,000 registrants and 230+ exhibitors, while the 2024 edition in Los Angeles drew nearly 5,000 professionals and 220+ exhibiting companies, half of them new to the show.

No. Restaurant Events runs it as an industry-only event, and one age rule covers attendees, exhibitors and media alike: an adult of 21 or over, whether parent, guardian or chaperone, must stay beside every minor. Exhibitors can still bring their own customers, since each booked company gets a co-branded invitation and promo code that admits them free.

Restaurant Events, LLC produces it, and the show is sponsored by the California Restaurant Association. Tim von Gal and Doug Miller formed the company and, in May 2023, acquired the Western Foodservice & Hospitality Expo from Clarion Events, then gave it back its original California Restaurant Show name in March 2024. They also run the New York, Florida and Carolinas Restaurant Shows.