...it takes 20 mins to walk to Pita Pit/Mondragon/Lineup and back...? Agreed that we don't always need to provide food. People like to go out for dinner/beer with friends on those days usually anyways.
On 15 October 2012 15:59, Michael Loney <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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