also sprach Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com> [2014-04-10 19:30 +0200]: > Assuming we can give away unused food so waste is not the issue: > what are the realistic savings? What are values from the past? 5 € / uneaten meal. I don't have values from the past. > And can't we just work on honor? You pay, you eat. We trust DDs with > more than that... We can trust DDs to do that, but we cannot really expect the hostel to trust them, can we? > Can the hostel really only plan a month in advance? This luxury is > unusual, normally they will have more volatile bookings. They want rough numbers 4 weeks and exact numbers one week in advance. They have an error margin, and they can probably heat up emergency portions, but they don't want us to plan with those. > Can we not order X portions and see how many those feed? German > portions are large. We'll see on 3 May… > And Vaumarcus had backup food when planning was wrong. Just whip up > noodles or bread and cheese. Sure, and there are some restaurants nearby, and the bistro. > This all feels complicated... Want to take over? ;) It's really not complicated per se. The complication arises from the fact that I am trying to negotiate a way by which we don't have to pay for food we know we won't eat, and that's not easy to do. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems # vim:tw=70
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