Recently a friend of mine held a fund raiser for breast cancer research (Shimmies for the Cure). She holds this function every year and ticket price includes a buffet. I always help her out and this year especially we seemed to have some problems with overly greedy people. One guy absolutely filled his plate to overflowing no less than FIVE times before most people had even gotten one helping. This meant we ran out of the first half even before the intermission and we had to put out the second servings right away leaving us with very little of some dishes for the intermission and second half...and the dancers in the second half don't even get to eat until after the show is over ... meaning we are out of a lot of things when we shouldn't be. Another issue was two people said they didn't want the food and finagled my friend into selling them the show tickets without the meal. With no way to now track them since the function included the meal, those two wound up getting food anyway despite the fact they paid a LOT less than everyone else who did pay for the buffet. I mean this was a fund raiser and that food cost $900 to begin with which winds up taking away from the profits that could have gone to the foundation because she has to buy more food.
Any tips on how we can handle things next year to avoid this? We are considering limiting trips to two for each person and using meal tickets. But despite the fact that I am manning the buffet table, I also perform so the table is unmanned for the duration I am in the dressing room and waiting to go on myself :P .
Any tips on how we can handle things next year to avoid this? We are considering limiting trips to two for each person and using meal tickets. But despite the fact that I am manning the buffet table, I also perform so the table is unmanned for the duration I am in the dressing room and waiting to go on myself :P .