The Nest answered us that they would require at least a 24h notice. They would prepare food for this amount of people and bill us accordingly. Don't hesitate if you have any other questions! -- Louis-Philippe a.k.a pollo On 2015-01-29 23:30, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: > Good point. I have asked for more details. > > What I proposed them is to be able to give them a number a day before. I think it would be doable to setup some kind of web portal where people can > say where they will eating the next day. By default it would be catered food, and people could subscribe/unsubscribe at will. I don't think this is > too much asked. > > It would not be fair and ecological to cater 100 more plates than needed... > > -- > Louis-Philippe > a.k.a pollo > > > > On 2015-01-28 16:45, Gunnar Wolf wrote: >> Louis-Philippe Véronneau dijo [Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 01:13:32PM -0500]: >>> Hi! >>> >>> We received some quotes from one of our caterer options. The Nest >>> (McGill’s student-run café) quoted 20 CAD$ per day per person for 3 >>> meals a day. Just to be clear, this means about 6,66 CAD$ per meal >>> per person, or 5,34 USD$ per meal per person at current currency >>> rates. >>> >>> We have ask for a possible menu and should get it soon. In the mean >>> time, all other infos about food can be found here: >>> https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/Bids/Montreal/Venues/McGill#Food >>> >>> I'll reply to the list when I will get some more infos. >> >> This sounds very good! >> >> A question that always pops up, specialy when the venue is in the >> middle of an interesting city: How flexible are they regarding actual >> attendance? Say, we ask them to prepare food for 250 people (as we >> have i.e. 200 food-sponsored and 100 non-food-sponsored), but 80 >> people decide to eat out that night instead of 50. Do we have to pay >> the missing 30? Or if one night only 20 go out instead of 50, will >> they have enough food for them? >> >> What are the margins they would feel comfortable within? >> >> Thanks! >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Debconf-team mailing list > Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team >
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