Feast stewart at the crossroads was Re: [SCA-cooks] Pulled sugar

[chirhart_1]

Run with it! Started a feast for 120 received money for 145. Ended up
feeding 235. Feed them  into submission.
                                                              From: Chirhart


----- Original Message -----
From: "Phlip" <phlip at 99main.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: Feast stewart at the crossroads was Re: [SCA-cooks] Pulled
sugar


>
> Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
>
>  I'm still working on my reputation here and I won't
> > do some scaled-back snack when the event truly calls for a Meal Fit For
A
> King,
> > literally.  I'm trying to figure out what to do;  I want to be a team
> player but
> > I won't let them force me to do a mediocre meal.  Or:  is my next
> challenge to
> > do a boffo, razzle-dazzle extravaganza on the halved budget?  Am I up to
> this
> > challenge?
>
> Well, my suggestion is that along with a reputation for Doing Good Things
> With Food, you develop a reputation for not being suckered by broken
> promises and last minute changes.
>
> > I've told my mother [translating terms like "autocrat" as "event
> producer"] and
> > she agrees with me.  That helps a little.
> >
> > Selene
>
> What are mothers for, after all ;-)
>
> Really, Selene, don't let them take advantage of you, on any but your own
> terms.
>
> (Momma) Phlip
>
>  If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
> cat.
>
> Never a horse that cain't be rode,
> And never a rider who cain't be throwed....
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Susan Fox-Davis" <selene at earthlink.net>
> To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 2:08 PM
> Subject: Re: Feast stewart at the crossroads was Re: [SCA-cooks] Pulled
> sugar
>
>
> > Generys ferch Ednuyed wrote:
> >
> > > As far as the budget - How do they do budgets out there? Here, it
> basically
> > > works so that feast is supposed to break even in and of itself - your
> budget
> > > is equal to the feast cap times the feast price... so anyway, if this
> feast
> > > is cheaper than the others, than people won't be surprised if it's a
> little
> > > smaller?
> >
> > The autocrat announced this whole fait-accompli complete with a budget
of
> $1,500
> > for food, and I know they are planning a 'box lunch' type arrangement
for
> $5, so
> > my guess is that would take about a third of the budget.  Either they
get
> dinner
> > for 100 [we could have sold 300 tickets easily last year, if we had the
> room for
> > them] or I get a slashed budget.  I typically budget $10 per paying
diner
> for a
> > major feast such as this. >