[Debconf-team] DC13 cost reduction / additional income idea 2 - food
Hi
*** No/Less sponsored food ***
Not providing food at all or just some meals (breakfast and/or dinner).
This means that one or two meals per day have to be paid by the
attendees themselves or they just don't eat that meal. This is easier
with the Interlaken proposal as there are restaurants around where
people can eat instead. For Le Camp this would probably mean that the Le
Camp cooks would cook anyway but attendees would have to pay the costs
themselves. We would have to find a way with the Le Camp staff about how
to make this work. Worst case we would pay for everyone but only get
money from those that actually eat the meal.
On the other hand as for Le Camp all the money flows through DebConf it
would be possible to partially sponsor the meals (say attendees pay 10%
of the costs).
Example costs for cheap restaurants in Switzerland:
Kebab (Döner) plus Coke: ~12.-
Coffee plus Croissant: ~6.-
Breakfast: 10.- - 15.-
Simple pizza plus drink: 20.-
Normal simple meal (simple main dish, salad) with drinks (3dl mineral water
plus coffe): 30.- to 40.-
more sophisticated dinner with wine and two courses(no longer in a cheap
restaurant): 60.- - 100.-
Doing this might reduce the number of attendees, because some might just
not be able to afford paying for food themselves. This in turn would
increase our per attendee costs. Overall we could save as much as about
100'000.- CHF if we don't pay for any food at Le Camps prices.
A variant of this is to just have Breakfast and Dinner at Le Camp and to
have Sandwiches (ingredients provided by Le Camp, made by the attendees
from a buffet) for Lunch. This would recude the costs by 6.- per
attendee and day and save us 15% on the food costs. The price of 34.- is
in the contract proposal but we did not yet ask Le Camp if they would
agree to do this for all the days or if this is only for those days
where we eat somewhere else (daytrip).
Gaudenz
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