[Sca-cooks]Feasts Per Year

[Mairi Ceilidh]

> How about a sound-off by kingdom as to how many feasts per year (kingdom,
baronial, shire, whatever), how many served & price per plate?
>
> Thanks,
> Samrah


I'm glad you posed that question.  I've been wondering the same thing.  My
schedule for the coming year looks sort of like:

April 29-May 1         Inaugural Baronial Investiture
May 6-8 (?)              Kingdom Arts and Sciences Faire
June ????                Out of Kingdom event (tentative)
Sept. 2-5                  Kingdom 20th Year/Crown List
Oct. 14-16                Panhandle Skirmishes (free picnic for everyone at
the event, usually 400-700)
Nov. 18-20                Pilgrimage to Rome

There may be one or two places where I have committed to do lunch only at an
event, and I may even have missed a feast in that list.  My norm is to serve
travelers fare on Friday night, breakfast and lunch on Saturday, and feast
Saturday night.  Labor Day weekend (Kingdom 20th year) is a two-feast
weekend which my apprentice and I will work together.  The normal price for
food for the weekend is $7.00 per person.  For the Baronial Investiture I am
asking for $8.00 (other people are doing breakfast and lunch, which will
come out of that), and for the 20th year I am asking $10.00 per person per
night.

So, am I out of my mind, or do others run that type of schedule.  This is a
pretty typical year for me.

Mairi Ceilidh, who also has several standing non-SCA catering jobs every
year, and helps with supper at the local homeless shelter one night a month