• 100,000-plus attendees
• $90,000 collected in gross sales for Monroe Optimists cheese curds
• $27,000 in police officer overtime and mutual aid
• 15,000 pounds of cheese sold by 10 area companies in the cheese tent
• 5,700 pork chop sandwiches - and 5,500 steak sandwiches - sold at the Green County Pork and Beef Producers stand
• 4,900 pounds of Optimists' fried cheese curds sold
• 3,047 grilled cheese sandwiches sold at the National Historic Cheesemaking Center stand
• 2,321 participants in Sunday's parade
• 700-plus volunteers helped before, during and after
• 918 bottles of water sold at the Cheesemaking Center stand alone
• 915 walkers/runners in the 5K and 10K Cheese Days Chase
• 618 people (16 busloads) took the Dairy Farm and Barn Quilt bus tours
• 241.25 regular and overtime hours logged at the Monroe Streets Department
• 200 beer-loving runners in the .5K Bock Run
• 40 parking tickets
• 15 cows milked in Saturday's milking contest
• 12 vehicles towed
• 9 underage drinking or open container citations
• 4 traffic citations
• 3 criminal arrests
• 2 arrests for driving while intoxicated
At the National Historic Cheesemaking Center stand at Cheese Days, 90 pounds of butter and 13 gallons of secret sauce.
"It's pretty messy in there," Glenda Buholzer said. She and her crew inside the stand grossed $13,053 on sandwiches and water during Cheese Days.
It was a bang-up weekend all around for sales and attendance.
"If you ask me, the crowds this year were at least double what we had here in 2010," said Noreen Rueckert, coordinator of the event. "With changes we made to evening entertainment, the crowds stayed around on the Square in the evenings, whereas in the past things would quiet down."
Here's a breakdown of Cheese Days, by the numbers: