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Originally Posted by mistyinca  Just thowing some ideas out there...
Lisa, I know a bunch of us are meeting up in the park on Friday. What about having the hotel make up some sandwiches and having some canned sodas and we can pre-pay for those to eat at the park. I could easily see paying $8-$10 each for something like that... I know when I get done flying, I'm going to be starved.
Another idea...I'm sure some of us will eat Friday dinner and/or Saturday lunch at the hotel. You should ask if they'll apply any amount YTer's spend on food and drink towards the minimum.
Please let us know how much the deficit is. No one here wants you to take this on your own.
We can come up with something.   |
I contemplated adding box lunches to our menu for Saturday to help cover the minimums, as they're $13.95 per person, and that should be enough to meet the minimums if most everyone bought one, BUT...then we'd also have to cover the associated service fees and taxes, which was my concern. I was just trying to cover all this using what I'd already collected from you guys, which wasn't possible. BUT...if you'd be willing to pay an additional fee for this food (so you could just relax at the hotel and not have to find a restaurant on the Plaza to allow you and the babies), then that would definitely be possible. With the extra fees though, the box lunches would be about $18.50 per person. Is this too much???? We could do box lunches for lunch on Saturday, or I could even see if we could do that for Friday. I could pick-up everyone's lunches at the hotel prior to the meet-up, and I could give you your lunch at the park. It may even be enough to tide you over for dinner since it will be late afternoon by that point. Thoughts?
Another option would be adding a "snack break", which is $9.95 per person ($13 per person with the extra fees), and they have options like chips and dip, or salted soft pretzels, or cookies/brownies/rice crispy treats. I'm not sure when we'd do this though, as it's probably not enough for lunch, and you wouldn't want more food after you just got back from lunch.
If we did this though, I'd want to make it an OPTION for anyone who wanted to do that instead of getting food on the Plaza (I don't want to FORCE anyone to pay more, as I know this is already getting expensive for people), and the snack break would be hard because I don't want there to be any issues with only some people paying for it, but others trying to grab a "snack" and people getting upset. Maybe the box lunches would be better so it's "yours", and I would only order enough for those who wanted to participate.
I will also definitely ask my contact if the money you guys spend in the hotel restaurant would count toward our minimums, but our dogs aren't allowed in the hotel restaurant, so I'm not sure how many of you will be eating there anyway.