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Updated Booth Guidelines

Basics
  • All parents and guardians must approve if their child goes to a cookie booth.  
  • Girls should wear Girl Scout apparel or display their Girl Scout pins.
  • You must remain at your booth site the entire duration of the hours you signed up for, or until you sell out of cookies.
  • Arrive no more than 10 minutes before your scheduled time. The troop before you is scheduled until the end of their time slot. You cannot sell cookies before the beginning of your time slot. Manage the transition with the previous troop smoothly, keeping social distancing in the forefront.
  • If the troop following you has not shown up, you may continue to sell until they arrive.
  • Consider donating a box of cookies as a courtesy to the business that agreed to host your booth.
  • At the end of your shift, quietly pack up all items, clean up, take all your trash with you, and leave the area cleaner than you found it.
  • If you are the last booth slot, please leave on time.
  • If you must cancel, contact Conchetta Jones at 708-658-2331.
What to Bring to Your Booth
  • Table, chairs if needed/allowed by the store that gave you permission to sell.
  • Popular Girl Scout cookie varieties (i.e. Thin Mints, Samoas) are a MUST!  Take advantage of the cookie swap opportunities that will be happening beginning July 13, 2020.
  • Cash box/bag with enough cash to make change
  • Card reader
  • PPE includes hand sanitizer, masks for all, gloves if desired.  Keep social distancing in mind.
  • Posters (large enough for passers-by to see from a distance.) Anyone holding a poster should be with/near an adult and should not be on the street or curbside.  Safety first.
  • Pop-up tent optional. (The tent should attract people…large lettered posters on the tent would be a plus!)
Safety Precautions
  • Social distancing is required.
  • Create a boundary in front of table to maintain social distancing from customers.
  • Do not hand out samples at your booth.
  • Girls/adults should eat and drink away from the booth site. No food or drink should be on the booth site display.
  • No smoking by adults/girls anywhere near the cookie booth.
  • Bling your booth! Include posters, cookie costumes, music.
  • Think about accepting credit cards and display a sign stating, “We accept credit cards!”
  • Consider the possibility that rest rooms may not be available for the duration of your cookie booth. In the event there are restrooms, girls should use the buddy system when visiting the restroom. All safety precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 should be followed.
Security
  • Cookie booths should be attended by two adults and two girls. Additional girls and adults can be present to guide customers to the booth, up to a maximum of 6 people total.
    • Note: Girls do not need to be present at a cookie booth during our reboot. Booths can be attended by adults only during COVID-19.
  • For the well-being of the girls, only adults should be handling money or credit card transactions during COVID-19.
  • Use caution as booths may be set up in a parking lot.
    • Cookie booth locations can utilize additional girls/adults to guide traffic to the booth location. As an example, girls can hold posters at a street corner to advertise their cookie booth (an adult must also be present and think safety.)
  • Girls should stay close to their booth with no running around.
  • Take away all garbage and cookie cases when you leave your site. Remember, Girl Scouts always leave a place cleaner than they found it!
  • If confronted by an angry or upset individual, do not engage in debate. Refer the individual to the product program team at 855-ILOVEGS, ext. 6722 or productprogram@girlscoutsgcnwi.org. If you feel threatened, call 911.
  • Remember, we are all responsible for the reputation of Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana. Protect that reputation and our relationships with the businesses that support us with booth site opportunities by treating people and places with respect and following all safety protocols.

Facts about What We Stand For:
During Girl Scout Cookie season, our most visible time of year, people sometimes perpetuate rumors or false information about what Girl Scouting stands for as an organization in order to secure media coverage of their own platform issues or because they simply do not know the facts.

To ensure our members and their families can confirm that Girl Scouting does NOT have a relationship with Planned Parenthood and does NOT take a position on abortion or birth control, we are providing you with a fact sheet that explains this in writing. We encourage adults who are supporting girls during the cookie program to print out this fact sheet and carry it with them in order to provide accurate, factual information about our position on several divisive social issues.
Confidence Today. Career Tomorrow. Volunteer Now
Confidence Today. Career Tomorrow. Volunteer Now