CHARLOTTE — An Asian culture and food festival in Charlotte was shut down by the fire marshal on Friday night.
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Panda Fest in Charlotte was temporarily closed early on Friday evening due to outdoor cooking operations not meeting code requirements, but it reopened as scheduled on Saturday.
The layout of the festival was approved by a fire marshal prior to the event but on Friday, a different inspector visited the site and decided additional changes were needed.
After the event closed early on Friday, the Panda Fest team worked to make changes given to them that evening. When a new fire marshal arrived Saturday morning, the event was able to resume operations as planned.
Panda Fest told attendees that anyone affected by the early closure on Friday could request a refund through Eventbrite or use their ticket on Saturday or Sunday.
In addition to the festival’s temporary closure, Eventbrite, Panda Fest’s third-party ticketing vendor, experienced an unrelated outage on Friday night. The issue with Eventbrite has since been resolved, according to Abby Watkins, a representative for Panda Fest.
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