SC - Servers eating free

[Siegfried Heydrich]

Ilaria said:
> 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...

I have not heard of that being a kingdom tradition anywhere, but often 
what is a tradition and what is not and how far this tradition is
accepted are open to wide interpretation.

As well as the comments that have been given on this list recently, you
might find those in this file in the SCA EVENT PLANNING section of
the Florilegium useful:
feasts-free-msg   (14K) 11/11/94    Who gets in free to feasts.
 
> 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...  

Personally 20 freebies seems to be a high load for only 65 meal payers
to carry. Are all these 20 servers? That too, seems awlfully high. If
it is one server per table, I would expect about 9 servers. Even if
the King and Queen are two of the freebies, I think that still leaves
a bunch of non-payers which I don't think you can afford for that
small of a feast.

Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net

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