Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Common Meals payment/reservation options?

[Liz Ryan Cole (lizryancole]

I am wondering which communities assume a meal will be offered each day, with 
people having the opportunity to opt out.  We are planning for aging and for 
meals for families with little kids so our commitment is that a meal will be 
offered each day, but that people can select the 3 meals a week, or 5 meals a 
week or 7 meals a week plan (Sunday will probably be a mid day meal instead of 
dinner) and their monthly fee will cover it - and if you miss a meal or two, 
that’s just like at home.  We also have a coop work requirement - we do NOT 
assume all the work will be done by volunteers, but we do know that working 
together builds social capital and we think most of the coop work will be 
around meal prep and clean up.

Happy to talk about this further - note that this is not what we are doing now 
(we have zoning challenges in Lyme), but it is our plan based on previous 
common meal experiences in collective living and coop dorms, etc.

I put it out now because I think Marina is correct, what we do at a the 
beginning of our journey is key.

liz

Liz Ryan Cole
lizryancole [at] me.com

Pinnacle Cohousing and Loch Lyme Lodge and Cabins
Lyme, NH

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to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
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> On Sep 27, 2021, at 6:17 PM, Mariana Almeida via Cohousing-L <cohousing-l 
> [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
> 
> https://info.gather.coop/ is amazing... Wish we could have that in the 
> beginning of our journey because moving to it is much harder once habits are 
> established. 
> 
> Mariana
> 
> 
> 
>    On Monday, September 27, 2021, 05:17:58 AM PDT, Valerie Paul <valerie.paul 
> [at] gmail.com> wrote:  
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> At Bay State Commons (move-in Q1 2022!!), we are working on our meal
> planning and are interested in hearing about what other communities are
> doing these days for meal accounting and pricing.
> 
> I've reviewed past threads and have a good sense of the systems various
> communities have used in the past but there's nothing very recent and
> technology is changing so fast it seemed reasonable to put the questions
> out there again.
> 
> How do people sign up for meals?
> How do you collect payment?
> How much do you charge for meals (if you do)?
> Does the meals team have a separate bank account?
> 
> We are also looking at co-ho specific software options and are interested
> in peoples' feedback. (Maybe off list?)
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Valerie
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