Re: how many people for common meal...just starting | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Bonnie Fergusson (fergyb2yahoo.com) | |
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:21:57 -0700 (PDT) |
We use an old fashioned way of tracking meals, we have a calendar where cooks can sign up for doing the common meals they want to cook and a Binder which has a sheet for each common meal date which has a place for the cooks to sign up and write in their menu and how much each spent on food and then every person's name in the community printed with boxes where you can check if you want to go to that meal, if you want a vegetarian meal and lines for guests if you want to sign up to bring a guest or two. A day or two before the meal the cooks can draw a line through the page "closing" the meal after which supposedly no one can sign up (so you know how many mouths you are cooking for). In practice however there is always one or more people who ask the cooks if they can come to the meal after it is closed. It's up to the cooks to decide. I always cook for more than are signed up in anticipation of this but some cooks are careful to make only enough and might say no. The person in charge of tracking the meal money adds up what the cooks spent and divides it by the number of people who ate that night and charges each family that amount times however many family members or guests of theirs ate that night. Every 3 to 6 months we get a "bill" for our common dinners. Some folk who don't eat common dinner very often may be owed money (if they spent more on the nights they cooked than they owe for nights they ate), most of us owe something. Our meals generally cost between $3 and $5 a head and we don't charge for small children. It all works out. And nobody has had to do any computer programing to make it work. Bonnie Fergusson Swan's Market Cohousing Oakland, CA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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