If attendance were the only metric, then the inaugural Fried Chicken Festival would have been the unqualified breakout success story of last year’s festival season. Yet the event’s surprisingly high turnout—upwards of 40,000 people in Lafayette Square—created plenty of growing pains as the celebration was plagued by long lines and low inventories.

To paraphrase the Grateful Dead, maybe they had too much too fast.

Fortunately, the organizers behind the Fried Chicken Festival are doing their best to avoid any repeats of last year’s issues. Their solution: expanding the festival to two days and moving the operation to a larger location. NOLA.com reports that the free festival will take place September 23 and 24 along the riverfront in Woldenberg Park.

Evidently, organizers are planning for 100,000 attendees, and even requiring vendors to have a minimum number of commercial fryers. Of course, the event will also feature a healthy dose of live local music, as well as additional programming like a cooking demo stage that will be headlined by chef Jeff Henderson of “Flip My Food” fame. Last year’s festival, for instance, included performances by Tank and The Bangas, Sweet Crude, DJ Mannie Fresh, John Boutte and Brass-a-holics.

The expansion isn’t just limited to time and space either. According to NOLA.com, the people behind the festival are looking beyond Louisiana’s borders in the hopes of bringing at least 10 vendors from other regions to the party.

“We’re coveting some of the well-known fried chicken vendors in Los Angeles, New York and Houston,” Cleveland Spers III, who Spears Groups puts on the festival, told the publication. “We truly believe that this can be a national food festival.”

The 2017 Fried Chicken Festival will see the return of the fried chicken competition, which will be settled by a panel of judges (Original Fiorella’s won Best Fried Chicken last year, with Jazz City Cafe winning Best Use of Fried Chicken in a Dish).