2025 Troop Cookie Manager Playbook

Cookie Booth Guidelines Cookie booths—that is, cookie pop-up sales in areas with lots of foot traffic—are a fun way for Girl Scouts to connect with their community and practice their sales pitch with new customers. Booth locations must be approved by councils, facilitated within council jurisdiction, and participants must follow all council guidelines regarding setting up, running, and taking down a booth to ensure future booth partner relationships.

When running a cookie booth, whether at a business or a school event, your troop is a guest of the facility, there at the discretion of the facility. Your troop represents all of Girl Scouts during a cookie booth.

Create a great cookie booth experience for your Girl Scouts by:

• Using your best judgment in setting up cookie booths in locations that will be open, accessible, and safe for all Girl Scouts and potential customers.

• Choosing a high traffic area—this could be your local supermarket, mall, or park—where you’ll maximize the number of visitors to your booth.

• Checking out your booth site ahead of the sale. Talk to business owners in the area so they’ll know what to expect. Find out what security measures are in place—these may include lights for evening sales and whether a security camera watches the booth area—and where the nearest bathrooms are located.

• Respecting the surrounding businesses by making sure your booth isn’t blocking a store entrance or exit.

• Each adult helping at a cookie booth must be background-checked by Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri and cannot be on the funds handling restriction list.

• Encouraging your Girl Scouts to unleash their creativity—and working on their advertising skills—to make colorful signs and booth decorations that potential customers can’t resist!

• Remind Girl Scouts to be polite and to have their sales pitch ready for interested customers.

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