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

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote:

> > 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.
>
> We're struggling with this very issue for an event I'm running at the end
> of the month. You have to feed the servers, if you recruit separate
> servers. Do you charge them full price for a meal they won't get to sit
> down and eat? Do you comp their meal and prepare extra portions? Do you
> comp their meal and let them eat the 'broken meats'? Do you provide
> separate, free food for them and also let them eat the broken meats?
>
>
> -- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa


Around here, servers eat free, and usually before feast. It's touted as a
good way for broke college students to be able to eat feast. I don't
recall a feast that I've either eaten or served for that didn't have
enough servers.

In the past, cooks who have a) charged servers a reduced fee and then
served them a reduced feast, while still expecting full work out of them,
and b) cooks/autocrats who did *not* provide a server's feast have had
many nasty things said about them, publicly, by many people.

B is usually considered a cardinal sin. Providing a reduced feast for
servers is basically ok as long as they're eating free, it
appears. Servers and kitchen staff also usually get first crack at the
leftovers. Arrangements for kitchen staff are usually handled by the
individual cook, and vary widely.


Margaret