Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Meal Participation Program

[Alison Etter (alison.s.etter]

Regarding my response for Roberts Creek Cohousing, we usually have 3-5
people on a team.  There is usually a nucleus of people, and sometimes they
pull in others for a particular meal, or a guest or two to help.  On
clean-up, we usually have 6 people - two on dishes, 2 on pots, 1 on laundry,
and 1 to do reclycling and compost and garbage.  On average, we have 20-30
people at dinner, but it can be as low as 15 ish and as high as 40-45.

Alison

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Muriel Kranowski <murielk [at] vt.edu> wrote:

>
> It would be very helpful if those who respond would tell us how many adults
> and children usually come to dinner (20-29, 30-39,...), and how many people
> are on a standard-size cooking and/or cleaning team.
>    Muriel
>    Shadowlake Village Cohousing
>    Blacksburg, VA
>
> At 10:06 AM 1/21/2010, you wrote:
>
> >Eta,
> >
> >We have a scheduler who assigns folks to cooking slots (of course, taking
> in
> >account folks' preferences and restrictions).  It is not perfect but
> thanks
> >to the scheduler, it works.
> >
> >However, if you have been assigned a cooking slot whose date no longer
> works
> >for you, it is up to you to find a replacement.  Generally, one posts to
> the
> >listserv and someone is usually willing to work out an arrangement.
> >
> > >>> It would also be helpful to find out how much they charge for a meal
> per
> >person.
> >The cooks pay for the meal.  Also we do not RSVP.  The cooks take their
> best
> >guess on how many will show up for dinner.  Any leftovers is divided by
> the
> >cooks or shared with the community.  (For dinners when we expect a large
> >attendance, we assign more cooks to share the expense.)
> >
> >So the cooking team plan the meal, prepare the meal, serve the meal and do
> >cleanup.  Who does what is worked out by the team.  We have had this
> >arrangement for over 10 years and it works for us.
> >
> >Do you know why your meal attendance has been dropping?
> >
> >-Robert Heinich
> >  Eno Commons Cohousing
> >  Durham, NC
> >  http://www.enocommons.org
> >  where we have a house available for rent as the owners are in New
> Zealand
> >for a year.
> >
> >
> >On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Eta Braun <etabr [at] charter.net> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I live at Oak Creek Commons in Paso Robles for about 5 years.  We still
> > > struggle with scheduling two dinners per week (Thursdays and Sundays).
> > > The number of cooks and cleaners has become smaller over time as well
> > > as the number of people eating.
> > >
> > > We would like to hear from other communities how they handle their meal
> > > participation program in general and specifically how they ensure
> > > enough cooks and cleaners for each meal.  It would also be helpful to
> > > find out how much they charge for a meal per person.
> > >
> > > Thank you in advance for giving us this information.
> > >
> > > Eta Braun
> > > Oak Creel Commons
> > > Paso Robles, CA
>  > >
> > >
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Alison Etter 604-740-0321
Roberts Creek, British Columbia   Canada

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