Vote for Your Favorite at Blue Back Burger Bash and Support CT Foodshare: How Voting Works & How to Win

A community festival vote, built around Blue Back Square and a local charity

West Hartford Magazine, publisher of we-ha.com, runs the favorite-vendor vote for the Blue Back Burger Bash, a food festival held at Blue Back Square and framed on the page as a fundraiser for CT Foodshare. Archived editions place the event in 2024, 2025 and 2026, with one archived version describing itself as the second running of the festival.

Past those confirmed years, the specifics thin out fast. No fixed vendor-category list is printed beyond the article's own topic tags, no per-voter cap or eligibility rule appears anywhere, and the exact opening and closing dates of the favorite-vendor vote are not stated on the page.

Three archived years is a real, if still fairly short, run for a single-square community event. Treat the missing rows honestly rather than filling them in with a guess from a different town's festival.

September, Blue Back Square, and a date that has already moved once

The we-ha.com page pins the festival itself to September, and one archived version of that page is headlined as an update: the Blue Back Burger Bash, it says, would now be held on a rescheduled Friday, September 27, having shifted from an earlier planned date. That single detail says something useful on its own, a community festival tied to an outdoor square is the kind of event that moves around weather and venue availability, so a supporter should treat any date printed well in advance as provisional until closer to the day.

The same page calls that year's festival the second running of the event, which places its origin one year before the earliest year archived here. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle rather than assuming the current season keeps last year's exact date.

Article tags on the published page, Business, Food, Happenings and Lifestyle among them, describe how We-Ha filed the story on its own site, not a list of vendor categories a supporter can vote across. Whatever vendors and divisions apply to the live vote sit on that page itself, not in this summary.

One West Hartford square, next to six statewide and citywide Connecticut ballots

Connecticut runs several broader "best of" ballots, and none of them share a vendor list, a venue or a beneficiary with West Hartford Magazine's own festival vote.

A vendor who does well in the Burger Bash's own vote carries nothing toward any of the six programs above, and the reverse holds too. Even Best of West Hartford, covering the very same town, runs on its own separate publisher and ballot with no shared result tying it back to the festival at Blue Back Square.

Supporting a vendor while a young community event finds its footing

Three archived years gives a Blue Back Square vendor a shorter history to lean on than a decade-old statewide ballot offers. The practical move is asking the customers who actually visit that vendor's stand to also visit we-ha.com and vote, more than once across the season rather than in one rushed attempt near the close.

That holds regardless of what the current season's exact rules turn out to be. Genuine, repeated support from real diners is what moves a community vote like this, and a charity-tied event with CT Foodshare's name attached is exactly the kind of ballot where a burst of irregular activity gets noticed and questioned quickly, putting both a vendor's standing and the festival's own reputation at risk.

Is buying votes legal lays out where a legitimate push for a vendor ends and a risky one begins, worth a look before spending real effort on next year's Burger Bash. Buying votes online explains what outside support for a community favorite-vendor vote typically involves, and restaurant and food-vendor vote support is built specifically around a format shaped like this one.