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

[Olwen the Odd]

Not to mention how intimidating it would be for a new cook.

>From: "Patricia Collum" <pjc2 at cox.net>
>     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
>   <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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