[Sca-cooks] Arghhh feast service

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In a message dated 1/16/2002 1:09:38 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jenne at fiedlerfamily.net writes:


> the person arranging feast service for our event in a week and a half has
> now announced that the 11 people he has lined up can only reliably serve
> high table (8 people at high table) and I'd need an additional 13 people
> (one per table) as part of the feast service staff -- offboard and being
> fed beforehand at the event's expense -- simply to provide simple service
> to the other 13 tables.
>
> Am I crazy, or is he?
>
>

11 people to serve 8???  I think he's the crazy one, unless he intends to
have each member of the party at head table have a server hovering over their
shoulder at all times, plus one carving, one fetching drinks, and one doing
god knows what else.  While that would be a truly decadent level of service,
I'm not sure that's necessarily a wise use of manpower....  Surely one can
adequately and even luxoriously serve 8 people with no more than 3-4 servers?

Brangwayna Morgan