Social distancing marshals and hand sanitiser will be part of Saturday's Foodies Market Dubbo, reports its organiser who is also asking the public to play their part in COVID safety.
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Anna Demasi said they were holding the event at Dubbo's showground, which had space to meet the one person per four square metre rule.
To feature a mix of about 26 local and Sydney-based food vendors, it's the second event Ms Demasi has organised at Dubbo in the past year.
She said there were "obviously a few extra" measures they needed to do because of COVID-19.
But since the company started holding events again from the start of the month after the pandemic shutdown, she said "everyone seem[ed] to be following the social distancing".
"So the fact that people are cooperating makes things a lot easier, and I think this is sort of going to be a factor of life at the moment," Ms Demasi said.
"So we can't lock away and hide forever, we need to still be able to live and enjoy life and do some of the things we normally do but just having those few extra rules in place."
The event organiser said attendees would need to provide full names, mobile numbers and their own pen to prevent "contamination".
"And that's if anything happens, we've got all those details and Service NSW will contact everyone," Ms Demasi said.
"We have hand sanitiser on site, so they need to be using that, we'll have markers on the floor, to ensure when they do line up for food or for retail stores, they're 1.5 metres apart, the customers.
"And we'll also have social distancing marshalls around, just to make sure that everybody's doing the right thing.
"But generally like I said, in the past everybody has done the right thing because we all still want to be able to go out, so we're just being that little bit careful but we're still enjoying life."
Nachos, burgers, ribs, nutella pizzas, and loaded pancakes are some of the food options that would be available at the event, to be held from 11am to 5pm.
Ms Demasi, who is based in Sydney, said it was hard to forecast how many people might come, but the response they'd received to promotion had been "amazing" and it could be two thousand people over the course of the six hours.