The lines are long. The food is expensive. Everyone in the group wants to eat something different. The food taste is a gamble. There are few places to eat.
Does everyone stick together and wait in all of the lines? Split up and meet at some location? Eat on the way to the festival and just hang out?
That’s what I was about to say. That makes no sense. Unless OP is outside their hoke country at like a tourist trap maybe.