[Sca-cooks] Adjusting your Feast budget for Comps

[Saint Phlip]

Well, people are always trying to slip a few extras in, and honestly,
I really don't think they understand quite what they're doing. When
Avraham and I did the feast for Northpass, we got fair warning that
the people in the Shire couldn't count, from the cook who usually did
their feasts. They asked us to feed 60 people on the given budget, and
having been warned, we simply planned to feed 75 people.

And, of course for our own amusement, when the number crept up to 65,
we "reluctantly" agreed, but told them no more. When it then started
to creep up to 70, I whooped and hollered and generally threw a fit,
so when they tippy-toed in and tried to wiggle a couple more in
(vegetarians, yet) I was ready to have a complete conniption fit.
Finally fed 73 people, plus those of us who ate in the kitchen (and,
btw, we, as cooks, paid too, even though by the time feast happens if
I'm cooking, I don't even want to LOOK at that food I've been messing
with all day.)

Of course, by the end of that performance, they were all convinced
they owed me ;-)  Avraham and I had a great giggle over that.

I likely wouldn't have let them get away with it in other
circumstances, but we knew these people. They're a very small group,
and they really work their tails off, putting on 2 very nice events
every year. However, they tend to get so wound up in everything else
they're doing that they do things like forgetting to count themselves
on the feast list, so it's something that you tend to handle gently
;-)

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Deborah Hammons
<mistressaldyth at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow, what a great way to look at it.  Not easy for me to do, but hey.
>  Thanks for the idea.
>
> Aldyth
>
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Saint Phlip <phlip at 99main.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, if they're part of the 250 people you agreed to feed, there's no
>> reason to worry about it.
>> As far as you're concerned, you're cooking for 250 people. They can
>> comp all 250 people, the NY Yankees, and the Harlem Globetrotters, and
>> you still have $750 to make your feast. It's not your problem.
>>
>> YOU are not losing money on a feast- THEY are. Do your job, and you'll
>> be just fine.
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Deborah Hammons
>> <mistressaldyth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > From the information I have, they are to be "part" of the people I agree
>> to
>> > feed.  I put my foot down early when I agreed to cook for no more than
>> 250,
>> > and no feast would be sold at the door (which has been done in the area
>> it
>> > is being held in).  I have the impression that there isn't a large
>> concern
>> > whether or not the event looses money, because "Kingdom" is paying for
>> it.
>> >  And my personal pride is taking a hit, because for the first time in 25
>> > years of cooking, I might loose money on a feast.  I have an email in to
>> the
>> > Kingdom Seneschal and Exchequer.  Yikes.
>> >
>> > Aldyth
>>
>>
>> --
>> Saint Phlip
>>
>> So, you think your data is safe?
>>
>> http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.hacking/index.html?hpt=T2
>>
>> Heat it up
>> Hit it hard
>> Repent as necessary.
>>
>> Priorities:
>>
>> It's the smith who makes the tools, not the tools which make the smith.
>>
>> .I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary
>> notices I have read with pleasure. -Clarence Darrow
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Saint Phlip

So, you think your data is safe?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.hacking/index.html?hpt=T2

Heat it up
Hit it hard
Repent as necessary.

Priorities:

It's the smith who makes the tools, not the tools which make the smith.

.I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary
notices I have read with pleasure. -Clarence Darrow