[Sca-cooks] : Adjusting your Feast budget for Comps

[Claire Clarke]

Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:17:42 +1200
From: Antonia di B C <dama.antonia at gmail.com>
To: yaini0625 at yahoo.com, Cooks within the SCA
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Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Adjusting your Feast budget for Comps
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On 18/04/2011 10:37 AM, yaini0625 at yahoo.com wrote:
> I had the opposite happen. I was told to plan and budget for 70 and even
adjusted the time so  " Special Attendees" could join. Turns out 56 showed
and when the. Special Attendees arrived they were an hour late and had
already eaten Learned  valuable lessons on that feast.
> I didn't do the feast this year because I had broken my leg but I would do
it again. The 56 who ate really enjoyed it. And it was gluten free and low
sodium.


Oh, how I love living in a barony where bookings are essential :-)
-- 
Antonia di Benedetto Calvo
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It's just politeness really. I had a very similar experience once, cooking
in a barony where booking had become a bit unfashionable. I catered for 80
because that's how many I was told were expected. No one booked and about
half that many people showed up. I threw away so much food (and we lost a
lot of money, though not just on the food - that was the Feast Where
Everything Goes Wrong). Mind you 40 people managed to scoff enough lamb and
gnocchi for 80. 

Funnily enough the next feast in that barony was advertised with a message
that anyone who hadn't booked and paid beforehand wasn't getting in the
door.

Angharad