Food for Events (Important!)

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IvanDrake

Prodigy
Due to the low volume of food registrations in recent months, we have decided to cancel catering food. While some people clearly enjoy the convenience of having meals delivered to the tavern, we simply are not getting enough orders to make it worthwhile.

if you have already paid for food for the September event, you can have the money credited toward future purchases (events, Gobbies, books, etc.) or we can reimburse you via Paypal.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thank you!

Eric Stehle
IvnDrake@aol.com
 
I have already reimbursed the following people for meals cancelled in September:

Sheila Haswell
Dave Erhardt
Mike Strauss

The following people hadmeals on the list, but I could not find their paypal payments. I think the payments were credited from an earlier event or before the 60 days that paypal allows refunds. Please contact me via PM to discuss.

Dan Bailergon
Dan Lineaweaver
Missy Lineaweaver

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Scott
 
Cancel permanently, I take it? Or if you had enough people going to an event saying they wanted food when they pre-reg'ed would we be able to get food? Just curious.
 
Well, this is the second month in a row that food hasn't generated enough interest to warrant the catering. I think we'll cancel it for the last two events and discuss it over the winter.

Again, echoing Scott's sentiment, we apologize for any inconvenience.

--- Eric Stehle
 
During the winter discussions, perhaps a change of entree from event to event would be possible.
 
I got the reimbursement, thank you. I shall promptly set about making other food acquisition plans.

Isn't this going to play havoc with the IG dinner festivities?

-Sheila
 
We have a few possibilities (or combinations thereof).

First, we should make it clear that we do not want to charge real money for food we may provide (catering is different). If we did that, we could be seen as running a restaurant and would then have to deal with all sorts of permits and government oversight that we do not want. So if any food is provided other than catering, it has to be with game money only.

So here are some possibilities:

1. Players donate food, especially for breakfast. We can provide a continental breakfast with things like toast and bagels and hard boiled eggs and fruit and cereal and so on. If you donate we can give you goblin stamps or game money, but to be honest, the game money won't be much. We're not going to charge more than a few coppers for a hard boiled egg, after all.

We can also use donations of regular food that doesn't need much preparation, such as ramen noodles. Please be sure to donate vegetarian friendly soups too like the cheddar cheese one.

This we can do this weekend. Please help us out here! If you can bring something, post it here so we don't get 30 donations of toast and nothing else.


2. A player or team of players decide to be the Saturday night cooks for the event. Each team can volunteer for a specific weekend. Come on, once a year, could you volunteer for one night?

We can provide hot plates, but until we get an electrician to hook up the right outlets, we can't have an oven. Now that could get you LOTS of goblin stamps...


3. We can set up an OOG kitchen for players to use. A few donations of microwaves and toasters and a refrigerator even would be great, but we'd need to set up a sink too I guess. It's possible to divide the kitchen up so people can enter through the side door near the Mages Guild and just use the equipment there without coming into the IG kitchen area. Once more, volunteers and donations are needed.
 
Another pretty awesome thing that just requires regular outlet power are electric skillets. Just a thought. When I come back to the states I'll see what you guys still need then and help out for sure. :)
 
If you get hot plates together and some stuff donated I would love to cook some food for dinner even if its as simple as pasta and a red sauce.
I am willing to cook for any event that I am at if we have the stuff there.

Heather
 
When Jersey Ran events at HQ, we used 2 propane stoves and used Sternos and created a dutch oven effect.

We made stuff like Homefries and pancakes, as well as Shepherds pie. So it is possible to work in the current kitchen full meals. Ive done it.

~Erica
 
All I need are a few hot plates some pans and the ingredients and I can make a meal with what we have for a kitchen now.

Heather
 
AllianceNJ said:
When Jersey Ran events at HQ, we used 2 propane stoves and used Sternos and created a dutch oven effect.

We made stuff like Homefries and pancakes, as well as Shepherds pie. So it is possible to work in the current kitchen full meals. Ive done it.

~Erica
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Indeed, and if someone wanted to do that, we'd be happy to let them!

Basically, none of us here at FP want to run a restaurant, but if someone else wanted to do it, we would do our best to help.

In other news, Heidi and I just got back from the grocery store where we bought a lot of cup o'noodles, oatmeal, coffee, eggs (which shall be hardboiled), sticky buns, and other things we need for the event...

Oops, we forgot to get kool aid and lemonade mix, so if someone can get that it would be great!
 
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