2026 Cookie Booth 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, they are 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.

And keep in mind:

• No more than four (4) Girl Scouts and two (2) adult volunteers (two are required) should be at a traditional cookie booth. Up to six (6) girls and four (4) adults can be at drive-thru booths. Larger troops can schedule shifts to give all girls (and adult volunteers) the opportunity to participate. Individual girl pop-up, or lemonade stand-style neighborhood cookie booths require one adult for supervision.

• If your Daisies are still learning how to make correct change, help them handle money as needed. But remember that girls make all sales at the booth!

• Changing your cookie booth hours or location? Keep your customers in the loop and update eBudde with the new details.

• Offer council-approved credit card payment options. The Digital Cookie app is the preferred credit card processing system. The troop can use this feature on the app when the troop has set up its troop Digital Cookie site.

• Troops are responsible for bringing their own table, health supplies, marketing supplies, secure cash/check container and trash bags. They should remove all trash and boxes when they leave.

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