Festivals and crowds
Prasadom holds the festival calendar, last years’ footfall and this year’s bookings together, then turns them into a day-by-day plan the office can hand to its people.
Festival planning fails on small things: one gate unopened, one shift unfilled, one sack unordered. The planner is a list of those small things.
Your festivals, your utsavams and your local observances, with the days that matter marked years ahead, not a generic almanac.
Expected numbers for each day, drawn from past years’ footfall, bookings already taken and the weekday the festival falls on. The office can override any number.
Shifts with names, gates and timings, so a volunteer knows where to stand before leaving home, and the office knows which shift is still short.
How many darshan lines, when the second queue opens, where the senior and ladies lines run, and who holds each gate.
Prasadam portions, flowers, oil and festival materials indented against the forecast, a day or two before the rush, not during it.
Each of these has happened at a temple on a festival day. Each is avoidable with a written plan.
On an ordinary day the temple runs on habit. On a festival day it runs on a plan, and the plan has to exist before the crowd does.On festival days
Festival planning
Prasadom reads last year’s footfall, this year’s bookings and your festival calendar, then turns them into a day-by-day plan the office can hand to its people.
We set Prasadom up at your temple office and train the staff who will use it: the counter clerk, the accountant and the kitchen in-charge, on their own desks.
On-site setup and staff training are included in every plan. No share of donations, ever.
