[Sca-cooks] Feast service, was Working for Adamantius....

[Mike Macchione]

> > Personally, I dislike this "every table must provide a server"
> > bit. I think it is better for the hosting group to provide the
> > servers. It is perhaps selfish, but I enjoy having the opportunity
> > to talk with my tablemates during feast. When one of them, and
> > sometimes as much as half the table, keep getting up to serve
> > the food this is disruptive.

I have the opposite view on this. I usually find that having one server per
table works best, has the least disruption and has the least logistical
problems.

If a kitchen can set up a staging area for the servers to pick up the food,
then the servers are usually only away from the table for a minute or so.

On the other hand, since most feasts generally will not be able to find one
server per table. I've seen longer disruptions by servers coming up to
tables and repeatedly asking if we received a particular dish.  And I find
the flip side to be more annoying to be the table that has to wait five
minutes or so for the servers to find that your table didn't get something.

This method also has the added benefit of not having to worry about feeding
the servers before or after the feast, deciding if they need to pay or not,
or spending upwards of 15 minutes organizing and training servers so that
the problems mentioned about are kept to a minimum.

As a feaster, I don't think i have ever seen anyone at a table that really
minded it.   usually its people "fighting" over who would go up to get the
next course.

Kael