Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Common Meals

[Beverly Jones Redekop (beverly.jones.redekop]

We have a cooks collective with no money changing hands. If twelve cooks
sign up for Tuesdays, there are six weeks of meals. You provide one meal
and eat five more. For your own meal, you buy (or grow!) your own
ingredients with your cooking partner.

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016, 9:25 AM PatZy via Cohousing-L <
cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

>
> Here at Mountain View Coho our meals program has been up and running for a
> year this week!  The billing comes off our diner signup sheets (paper, in
> the Common House, builds traffic), and cooks turn in their expenses after a
> meal.  One person keeps a spread sheet with dates/number of meals per
> household/amount spent on ingredients, and we even up on a quarterly basis.
>
> We struggled with initial pricing and finally agreed that meals would cost
> no more than $7 - everything costs more in the Bay Area - but we’ve never
> actually charged that much.  At the end of the quarter we review the actual
> cost per meal and adjust the charge accordingly for the billing.  We
> increase the actual a little to a round number (say the average was $5.84
> per meal, we’d charge $6).  The overage goes to our “feast fund” and so far
> we’ve charged $6, and $6.50 for meals.  This means lead cooks don’t have to
> sweat every penny and allows for the purchase of more organic/local food.
>
> PatZy Boomer
>
>
> > Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 19:03:19 -0500
> > From: Rita Bullinger <ritabullinger [at] gmail.com>
> > Subject: [C-L]_ Common meals
> >
> > Can anyone anywhere offer ideas for organizing the pricing and
> record-keeping of common meals?
> > We are about to have a common house!! I welcome any ideas!
> >
> > Thanks so much.
> >
> > Rita Bullinger
> > Germantown Commons, Nashville
> >
>
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