[Sca-cooks] Pre-Registrations for Feast

[Stanza693 at wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 2/27/2007 3:57:21 PM Mountain Standard Time, Nick Sasso 
writes:


> I would literally PAY for that opportunity.  We generally have our feasts
> limit set around 175ish and have people miander in for reservations all the
> way up to the door.  Our part of the world, for some odd reason isn't so
> much pre-reserve focused.  I have often ended up being asked by event
> steward if I can manage extending service numbers as late as the day before
> the event . . . sometimes day of, in the name of customer
> service/hospitality extended to weary travelers.
> 
> 
> pacem et bonum,
> niccolo difrancesco
> 
> 
> 

Are you in a heavily military area?  I don't know if it is true SCA wide, but 
some places that I have been as a military dependent had troubles with 
pre-reg concept because the soldiers (and therefore spouses!) couldn't guarantee 
that they would be in town due to the uncertainty of the training calendar, staff 
duty calendar, and all the deployments.

I understand the great help it is to an autocrat/head cook to have numbers, 
but I, personally, hated to pay the fees and loose them because my husband 
suddenly got deployed!  (Now that we are retired, we know our schedules and can 
pre-reg.)

A sus ordenes,
Constanza