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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I guess until you have paid reservations in, a
guess at the number attending is still a guess based on the attendence at the
past kingdom event (coronation, etc.) even sixmonths to a year out. Five
years ago the number of feast reservations at our kingdom/ large baronial
events was often 200-250. This last year the feasts that I have seen
reservations available for were 100-150. I think too many people have quit
eating feasts coupled with too many people getting stuck with large amounts of
overbought unsold food. We also have a new senechal, a fairly new kingdom
exchequer and current royalty who have taken fiscal responsibility for
our kingdom to heart.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> The servers they mention are the
ones that are comped. This means that if you ask for servers to help out at the
feast, they will either have already paid or never intended on eating/staying
for feasts anyway until they decide to help out. </FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> No one is protesting this so far
in Atenveldt. It will basically cap what we can spend without extremely good
reason, but I am still looking for the possibility that we still might
accidently tie our hands behind our back if our finance commitee will not even
look at great ideas that might cost just a little more, and maybe our cooks not
being able to eek out the most from our money because we have made the purse
strings a little too tight.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cecily</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=sca-cooks@ansteorra.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 01, 2003 5:01
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Sca-cooks] Fw:
[Aten_Cooks](long) Feast Policy Draft for Review</DIV>
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><snip>My second comment was somewhat ameliorated by
the ability to recalculate 2 weeks before the event, but...unless the
situation in Atenveldt is entirely different then it is here in the East, the
requirement to be able to name your servers and to estimate total numbers of
adults and children who will be feasting 6 months before an event is
ludicrous. Even coming up with a reasonable estimate 2 weeks before the
event would be extremely difficult, as most of our event reservations come in
in the 2 weeks before the event. If I were to have followed that
criteria for some of our shire events, I'd only have been allowed to cook for
about 20 people, when I ended up cooking for 80 because I waited until the
Wednesday or Thursday before the event to determine what my maximum
number would be.<BR><BR>Brangwayna</FONT> </DIV>
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