SC - Re: SC- feast options was rant

[Olwen the Odd]

Locally, if there is to be a lite-lunch included in the site fee, a certain 
dollar figure is included in the bid for the event.  Sometimes, as I stated 
previously, breakfast and even lunches are sold (by donation or cost 
announced fee) by a guild or household.

I have been quite interested in the variations from place to place as far as 
fees, menus and hall set ups.  Do many (any) of you have a Master of the 
Hall?  I wonder..

Olwen


>From: "Catherine Deville" <catdeville at mindspring.com>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: SC - Re: SC- feast options was rant
>Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 05:10:52 -0400
>
>Siegfried Heydrich <baronsig at peganet.com> said a great deal about the
>impact of seperating the feast fee from the event fee and how it affects
>the other meals served including the following comments:
> >     I've had mixed experiences with 'on board' meals other than feast.
>I've
> > found that the overwhelming majority of people who expect (quite 
>vocally,
>in
> > many cases) to be fed breakfast and lunch did not pay for feast.
>(Generally,
> > what people wanted for breakfast was *COFFEE*, and don't let the urn run
> > dry! I consider coffee to just be site overhead.)
> >     I've done events where I put out both meals, and wound up tossing
>most
> > of it because so few showed up to eat it. I've done others where I've
> > prepared what I thought was enough food for those who paid, and had it
> > vanish in a matter of minutes.
>...
> >     Now, unless the autocrat specifically tells me that he wants other
>meals
> > (and gives me budget for them), I don't bother. If someone has paid to
>eat,
> > that's one thing, but I get really annoyed when aggressive freeloaders
>chow
> > down. I'll keep the coffee perkin', but that's as far as I'm willing to
>go
> > for freebies.
>...
>
>Which brings up a point of curiosity.
>
>Question to the experienced feastcrats out there...
>     Since the feast fee is now seperate, what is your experience with
>budgetting the meals which are advertised in the flyer as "included"
>(breakfasts, lunches, dayboards?)   Do they come out of the feast fee and
>do you therefore expect them to be available only to those who paid the
>"onboard" rate or are you expected by local or kingdom custom to feed
>everyone, and if so does your group make a seperate budget out of the event
>rate for those meals?  How does your group manage this type of concern?
>
>
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