Paul,
Not sure what you have in the works mate, so here's what I did when I was running my Chapter in Colorado I stopped doing this when I hit 50 active but it seems to work for smaller games.
Friday Nights- Tavern was open till a little after midnight typically 1-2am ish. this was a dedicated NPC or PC whomever.
Saturday "Morning" tavern would open at 9am serve breakfast till about 11am then close
((the PC/NPC would have everything prepped so at 9am all they did was serve breakfast))
Saturday "Afternoon" tavern would open at 3pm and run until 5pm Logistics was also being done at this time as well so you'd get your food sit down and do your tags... it also prevents people from milling about and bogging down the staff with irrelevant questions afterwards the tavern would close until dinner
((Again at 3pm the Tavern would strictly be serving food nothing else))
Saturday "Night" Dinner would be served promptly at 9pm The tavern would stay open till 11pm
Saturday "Night" snacks I would reopen the Tavern again from 12pm till about 2am for snacks and people on late modules. I would promptly close at 2am however.
*If they ran the tavern for the weekend they got maxed out on Loose and 120 goblins
* we gave out 60 goblin stamps to waiters and waitresses if they served food during every single shift.
*We had a list of food being served at each event tenatively..typically I knew 2 weeks before the event.. everyone who wanted food had to pre-reg for food.. also if you didnt pre-reg for food and showed up at the door I tried to always plan for 5 people not showing up or showing up at the door.. so I'd serve em that food.
For me this worked.. again it gave the PC / NPC time to play and enjoy themselves without feeling like a slave to the tavern.
Not sure what you have in the works mate, so here's what I did when I was running my Chapter in Colorado I stopped doing this when I hit 50 active but it seems to work for smaller games.
Friday Nights- Tavern was open till a little after midnight typically 1-2am ish. this was a dedicated NPC or PC whomever.
Saturday "Morning" tavern would open at 9am serve breakfast till about 11am then close
((the PC/NPC would have everything prepped so at 9am all they did was serve breakfast))
Saturday "Afternoon" tavern would open at 3pm and run until 5pm Logistics was also being done at this time as well so you'd get your food sit down and do your tags... it also prevents people from milling about and bogging down the staff with irrelevant questions afterwards the tavern would close until dinner
((Again at 3pm the Tavern would strictly be serving food nothing else))
Saturday "Night" Dinner would be served promptly at 9pm The tavern would stay open till 11pm
Saturday "Night" snacks I would reopen the Tavern again from 12pm till about 2am for snacks and people on late modules. I would promptly close at 2am however.
*If they ran the tavern for the weekend they got maxed out on Loose and 120 goblins
* we gave out 60 goblin stamps to waiters and waitresses if they served food during every single shift.
*We had a list of food being served at each event tenatively..typically I knew 2 weeks before the event.. everyone who wanted food had to pre-reg for food.. also if you didnt pre-reg for food and showed up at the door I tried to always plan for 5 people not showing up or showing up at the door.. so I'd serve em that food.
For me this worked.. again it gave the PC / NPC time to play and enjoy themselves without feeling like a slave to the tavern.