[Sca-cooks] Cooking and Serving Equipment

[Gretchen Beck]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Terry Decker wrote:
>> Recently (as of, I believe, the most recent Curia Regis in our
>> kingdom) it has been declared illegal for local groups to put any
>> capital expenditures for items that will then be owned by the group
>> and re-used into specific event financial structures. Apparently
>> groups were buying pots and pans for Kingdom Twelfth Night, etc., and
>> including them as event expenses, which then reduced the gross profits
>> the Kingdom could then scoop their cut off of! Oh, the unbelievable,
>> shocking perfidy of it all! ;-)
>> So we can't buy pots for specific feasts anymore, not the way we used
>> to, and everything is more complicated now. <sigh>

> One must not deprive the King of his rightful share of your bounty.

Heh. Got one word for you. Rent. See what the curia thinks of their profit 
after each group spends twice what they would have buying the cookware 
renting what they need for a single event.

toodles, margaret