[Sca-cooks] Breakfasts

[Linda M. Kalb]

At 09:17 AM 8/21/01, you wrote:
> > Well, my group just doesn't have a no-food price, so the only deadbeats we
> > worry about are the ones that jump the gate entirely. Some people are
> > offended by the lack of a no-food price but nobody that I know of has come
> > to autocrats and requested a foodless price.

You must always have enough food to feed everyone!  In my group there are
usually more people wanting to attend than can be fed, so having different
prices based on food is a necessity.  (Major metropolitan area with high
density population, limited site size at reasonable prices).

I haven't been to any all-weekend camping events but in my group (Barony of
Bhakail, Eastern Kingdom) there are usually two prices, with and without
feast.  Without feast includes dayboard, etc.--everything but the
feast.  The site tokens are slightly different (different color ribbon, for
example) and seating is limited at the feast, so it's fairly obvious if an
unpaid person tries to join the feast--there simply isn't room.  But people
would have to be turned away from the event if it was only limited to the
number who could join the feast, thus the no-feast site fee.

If there is another room with additional seating available, as there might
be at a big indoor feast event like Yule, then there are three
distinctions:  onboard (feast), offboard (seating but no feast--bring your
own food) and outboard (no seating--you have to go offsite to eat at feast
time).

Inga/Linda

>I've never heard anybody complain about lack of a no-food price, though
>I'm sure somebody out there does.  But, my response would be: "Even with
>dayboard and breakfast included, it's still a darned cheap way to spend
>a weekend.  Keeping track of several different levels of entry fee and
>permissions for meals is way too complicated, and considering how cheap
>the meals are, it just ain't worth it.  If you want that kind of
>complication, you run the event."
>
>Consider, War Camp in Eisental this year was $10, and that included
>lunch and breakfast.  I just paid $75 for Philadelphia Folk Fest
>tickets, and that's no food included.  I also paid $100 to get into
>Pennsic for three days, no food included.  Would somebody have preferred
>to pay $7 for War Camp because they don't like the food?  Tough
>noogies.  Too much work to save people $3.
>
>-Magdalena
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