[Sca-cooks] Breakfasts

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> 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).

Yes, we do have lots and lots of food, enough for everybody, though
sometimes we run out of a particular item. We've been working on limiting
the amount of leftovers we have to take home. (Overfeeding people is an
addiction; there ought to be a 12-step program for it.)

BUT We DON'T do unlimited _feasts_, just dayboards and breakfasts.

> 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.

That's the way we handle it, too. Those who are onboard for the feast get
a special site token. Sometimes there is a no-feast site token, sometimes
not.

We don't restrict the event to those we can seat at the feast, but we
don't have a separate price for the other meals. (War camp is confusing
because there is no feast-- we have all we can do to provide services and
one dayboard/courtboard plus one breakfast.)

For our winter event we do offboard seating (we have plenty of tables, but
you have to set them up yourselves, thanks) if people really want it.


-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
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"Are you finished? If you're finished, you'll have to put down the spoon."