I have found that people attending a 8 hour event tend to want more than chips and microwaved pizza pops. Offering pizza is a good way to keep people at the space.
Leaving a hack-a-thon for food is about an hour and a half of time and $10-$15 bucks for anything decent. Pizza may not be the best thing in the world and we can always order other food, but it is cheaper to the people attending and it puts the money towards us not someone else. G Mike On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Lynn Kendrick <[email protected]>wrote: > Maybe its just me, but I don't understand why all events need food. > Nowhere else that I go for a game night or talk would provide food. They > have vending machines and you bring money. I think it is okay if we just > have that rather than the pizza and we can even expand our junk food > offerings to include some chips if need be. > > --- On *Mon, 15/10/12, Michael Loney <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Michael Loney <[email protected]> > Subject: [SkullSpace-Discuss] Entrance fee Ideas!! > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, 15 October, 2012, 15:44 > > > > As the topic has come up again, I will revisit some old ideas. > > The main goal with the outlined information is not to make money!! It is > to offer food and drink at events while breaking even on the event itself. > This gives us more incentive for people to come down while not costing us > too much. > > These are fees that only apply to non-members and student members, to > serve as an incentive to move up to a full membership. > > Hack-a-thons - no talks > > $5 entry, free can drink and 2 large slices of pizza at 6pm. > > > Hack-a-thons - minimum 3 talks > > $10 entry, same as above but also gives access to all talks during > the day. > > > Talks > > $2 a seat, if food is going to be offered then see the gaming > structure below. > > Events - other > > This is a tricky one, the idea would be to have other things going on > at the space, learn to solder workshop, programming class, not-a-movie > night etc. The cost would be largely variable on what was gong on. Members > would still have to pay any material costs to break even. > > > Gaming nights > > $5 entry, 2 free can drinks and 2 large slices of pizza at midpoint of > night. > > > ** Pizza price based on a large 3 topping pizza ( 12 slices cost ~$16 > after delivery ) or 1.50$ cost per person. > > For a hack-a-thon with 10 non-members our projected income would be $30.I > know this is not much but that $30 will cover pizza for the members > attending bringing us to a break even amount for the event. > > Gaming night would be a more lucrative idea as with Dungeons and Dragons > there is normally 3-4 non-members per group that chip in for food anyway. > > The big end goal is to populate our calendar with events that cost us a > net $0 dollars. If we offer more and more things then the people stopping > by are more interested in the membership and the entrance fees drop to $0 > for them. > > Feel free to change numbers around but I don't think $5 will deter someone > from cheap food while giving them something interesting to do. > > For the above to work we need all the members to start getting people > interested!! This means posters, flyers, word of mouth etc. > > G Mike > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ > > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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