Iowa State Fair cuts vendors over fraud concerns
Dad's Old Fashioned Lemonade lost the spot at the Iowa State Fair it has called home for 73 years.
The Iowa State Fair sent Dad's Old Fashioned Lemonade and three other vendors a letter informing them they would not be offered a future contract to do business.
The Iowa State Fair sent the following statement to KCCI:
"The Iowa Department of Revenue made the Fair aware of fraud taking place during the 2022 Iowa State fair by concessions operators."
Dad's Old Fashioned Lemonade is one of the four accused.
"We were audited last year. They tried saying we were not claiming all of our funds. But we were. And we proved that we were," said Diane Perry, Owner Dad's Old Fashioned Lemonade.
Perry thought everything had been worked out.
She suspects there are other reasons the fair is waving goodbye to her lemonade stand.
"And I could be totally wrong. But we just didn't make enough money for the fair board," Perry said.
She knows her days selling lemonade at the fair are over; something her family has done for five generations since 1948.
"It means everything. It's a family tradition. We love doing it because it's what we've done for so many years," Perry said.
Fair officials have not released the names of the other three vendors.