[Sca-cooks] feast size

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    We use a single BSA camp (La No Che) for all our Kingdom events. Not
only is the site a 'crats dream come true, but the site could easily handle
twice our numbers (just the part we use is a mile from one end to another).
    The site is fairly central, (though out in the boonies) with (I'd guess)
75% of the populace being within a 3 hour drive of the camp, and nobody
beyond 5 hours. (unless a group just formed in the Conch Republic . . .). We
get a LOT of daytrippers.
    We've been serving 150 at feast for a long time, and they're almost
always sold out. At Coronation last weekend, I am told there was a 4 page
waiting list for feast. The Kingdom is afraid of losing money, so they won't
authorized more than that number. Wonder if exchequers taste like chicken .
. .
    BTW, our Tavern did about $1,400 in business over the event weekend, if
that gives any of you budding entrepreneurs ideas . . .

    Sieggy

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> Another question that begs to be asked is that of geography. In Trimaris,
I seem to recall the large Kingdom events being held almost excpusively in
the center of the single state of that Kingdom . . . near Orlando?  In
Meridies, we have issues of being spread across the gulf coast, and about a
12 to 14 hour drive from one side to the other.  Daytripping that is a
bummer.  Not that it is awful; it just changes the event-going habits of
people attending Kingdom events held in Georgia or Louisiana for example.
It effectively cuts the potential audience in half howver you slice it . . .
and we have sites that generally limit seating to 200 on the outside and 150
to 160 usually.
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> niccolo difrancesco