[Sca-cooks] Fw: [Aten_Cooks](long) Feast Policy Draft for Review

[Patricia Collum]

I guess until you have paid reservations in, a guess at the number attending is still a guess based on the attendence at the past kingdom event (coronation, etc.) even sixmonths to a year out. Five years ago the number of feast reservations at our kingdom/ large baronial events was often 200-250. This last year the feasts that I have seen reservations available for were 100-150. I think too many people have quit eating feasts coupled with too many people getting stuck with large amounts of overbought unsold food. We also have a new senechal, a fairly new kingdom exchequer and current royalty who have taken fiscal responsibility for our kingdom to heart. 
    
    The servers they mention are the ones that are comped. This means that if you ask for servers to help out at the feast, they will either have already paid or never intended on eating/staying for feasts anyway until they decide to help out. 

    No one is protesting this so far in Atenveldt. It will basically cap what we can spend without extremely good reason, but I am still looking for the possibility that we still might accidently tie our hands behind our back if our finance commitee will not even look at great ideas that might cost just a little more, and maybe our cooks not being able to eek out the most from our money because we have made the purse strings a little too tight.

Cecily
----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bronwynmgn at aol.com 
  To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 5:01 AM
  Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Fw: [Aten_Cooks](long) Feast Policy Draft for Review
  <snip>My second comment was somewhat ameliorated by the ability to recalculate 2 weeks before the event, but...unless the situation in Atenveldt is entirely different then it is here in the East, the requirement to be able to name your servers and to estimate total numbers of adults and children who will be feasting 6 months before an event is ludicrous.  Even coming up with a reasonable estimate 2 weeks before the event would be extremely difficult, as most of our event reservations come in in the 2 weeks before the event.  If I were to have followed that criteria for some of our shire events, I'd only have been allowed to cook for about 20 people, when I ended up cooking for 80 because I waited until the Wednesday or Thursday before the event  to determine what my maximum number would be.

  Brangwayna 


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