SC - Feast Budgets

[Michael F. Gunter]

> >What are folks feeling about fees for kitchen staff?  The evolving policy
> >here locally, as I understand it, seems to be that if (a) it's a day event
> >and you never make it out of the kitchen, you don't pay a site fee, a feast
> >fee, or anything else; if (b) it's an event where you work the kitchen, but
> >there's enough event left over around the edges that you get to play, you pay
> >the site fee but eat free.  
> >
> >=Caitlin

> Traditionally in Namron, kitchen staff and servers get fed and when I'm
> doing the feast and planning the entertainment, so do the entertainers.
> For some reason, I've always had good support for my feasts.
> 
> Bear


What I have started doing is having the servers and occasional kitchen help
only pay half the event cost. People who spend the entire day helping me I
try to have their fees taken care of. Another thing I do is feed the servers
and the background entertainers before the feast. This is so the servers will
be well-fed so they can devote their time to the tables they have been assigned.
Also, they will know more about each course so they can take care of any special
needs beforehand. Something else I'm thinking about doing is checking with the
Crown to see if they will be giving out last-minute awards during court. If 
they are, the people who have to get the scrolls ready usually don't get to eat.
I'd like to make sure they are taken care of.

This policy seemed to work fairly well at the last Coronation I did.

Yers,

Gunthar

(Maybe it's because I started out in Namron...)
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