[Steppes] FEAST! (was Feast vs. Catering)

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I think we're missing the actual reason some sites are unwilling to allow us to cook and serve feast: licensing for food safety. For example last October when the Schola St. George folks ran their Western Martial Arts Workshop, the Lewisville Rec center wouldn't allow them to cook and serve feast due to city restrictions. The meal had to be catered because caterers are required to have food handling permits and catering insurance. 

So for some sites, it's not just a money factor, it's an issue of laws and permits and insurance.

Helene Q.

 On Tue Jul 24 11:56 , Julie Cunningham <juliecunningham65 at yahoo.com> sent:

>My Lady, 
>   
>  Actually out of the sites I contacted and listed in the email previously, Waxahachie, Midlothian, and Mineola *would* allow us to prepare/bring our own food and do not do their own catering at all.  Mineola was the only one out of those three which had a full kitchen, the others just a prep kitchen.
>   
>  I know when I contact sites, I will note if they allow us to bring in food or not. I will not remove a site from the list that says the site must cater but assume that we will not consider it as an option. Besides, it keeps us from calling them again when we know what their restrictions/requirements are. 
>   
>  HE Katheryn
>Chiara Francesca Chiara.Francesca at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Your all forgetting the main point of this. Sites are no longer
>available to us that allow food unless we use their service.
>
>Yes we know all the stories of all the miracle feasts. There is an
>entire archive of them online at Stephen's site.
>
>If you want to cook at 12th night, you need to be a part of finding
>the site. Otherwise, accept what is found in the end and be prepared
>to deal with the possibility of the restriction.
>
>Plan for it and you will not be in shock.
>
>Also, there are key words you need to use when you are talking to a
>potential site. We are not cooking a feast, we are having a cook off
>and the participants are all judges. Potluck. This they understand.
>Feast, they do not understand, to them a Feast is an enormous money
>maker. The moment they find out you are charging a separate fee for
>the food portion of the event they will refuse to budge.
>
>Chiara
>
>
>On Tue, July 24, 2007 1:14 pm, DonnelShaw at aol.com wrote:
>>
>> In a message dated 7/24/2007 1:05:20 PM Central Daylight Time,
>> glen.d.wilkerson at lmco.com writes:
>>
>> I would like to remind everyone that we have managed feasts before
>> without either kitchens or prep areas. Individuals or small groups
>> did
>> one dish and then delivered it on site ready to be served. When
>> Mistress Serena autocratted Twelfth Night in the old Olla Podrida
>> ballroom I delivered 300 foil wrapped chicken quarters in two towel
>> lined coolers ready to serve, and still at 140 degrees. Another
>> time it
>> was cornish game hens, and another it was pork roasts, and not one
>> of
>> those times did I ever set foot in a kitchen on site.
>>
>>
>
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