SC - Fwd: hi

[Michael Gunter]

I think that trying to serve that many free at a feast that small is a little
much.  Why not do without servers altogether?  What we often do is call one
person from each table to come up to the serving area and retrieve the dishes for
their table.  That would eliminate the servers at least, and give you a little
more money to play with.

I know folks often think that this scheme leads to confusion, and for a really
big feast (like a Coronation or our upcoming XXth Year), that would be true.
However, I mentored a first-time head cook this past weekend for a feast serving
170 people, and this worked like a charm!

Kiri

BaronessaIlaria at aol.com wrote:

> Touching again on the comments about servers eating free, I was informed this
> morning that it was the tradition in our kingdom that servers are never
> charged and that we can't mess with that. I find that rather hard to believe
> and wondered if anyone on the list had ever heard of a "kingdom tradition" of
> such. I am used to discounts given, but never that they be summarily free to
> eat the whole feast in exchange for serving...
>
> The autocrat I am negotiating with assures me that we will have 65 paid, most
> likely another 20 free (inc servers) and that we have to keep the price down.
> Somehow the concept of feeding 1/3 of the number of paid people for free just
> sticks in my throat...
>
> Ilaria
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