I asked one of our admin staff for approximate prices for catering. She said:
""" We usually pay between £7 and £10 per head for cold selection (including posh sandwiches, salads, chicken skewers and mini quiches etc), and £8 to £10 for hot selections, which also includes salads.
Coffee/tea/water breaks range from £2 to £3.50, depending on if you have biscuits or cake. """
There are a couple of other caterers, I suspect the prices will be similar. I'll get some more details together this week.
Stephen
Thanks Stephen.
We had a few problems with the university caterers at the Spring Conference, but I can't remember what they were. It would be good to get alternative quotes to compare, and if you can recall the issues, make sure they are mentioned to help ensure they don't happen again.
Kimball
On 3 February 2015 at 10:34, Stephen Quinney squinney@inf.ed.ac.uk wrote:
I asked one of our admin staff for approximate prices for catering. She said:
""" We usually pay between £7 and £10 per head for cold selection (including posh sandwiches, salads, chicken skewers and mini quiches etc), and £8 to £10 for hot selections, which also includes salads.
Coffee/tea/water breaks range from £2 to £3.50, depending on if you have biscuits or cake. """
There are a couple of other caterers, I suspect the prices will be similar. I'll get some more details together this week.
Stephen
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Indeed, I remember that there were a few issues. Those figures I quoted were from an alternative caterer named "Blue Sky" which our local admin staff recommended. Having said that, since we held the Spring Conference I've been involved in the OpenAFS conference in Edinburgh and the uni caterer "Edinburgh First" were very good. There are something like 5 different caterers we can choose from, I'll try to get quotes from 3 of them (one of them I definitely won't bother with as I know they are very expensive).
Stephen
On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 10:57:44AM +0000, Kimball Johnson wrote:
Thanks Stephen.
We had a few problems with the university caterers at the Spring Conference, but I can't remember what they were. It would be good to get alternative quotes to compare, and if you can recall the issues, make sure they are mentioned to help ensure they don't happen again.
Kimball
On 3 February 2015 at 10:34, Stephen Quinney squinney@inf.ed.ac.uk wrote:
I asked one of our admin staff for approximate prices for catering. She said:
""" We usually pay between £7 and £10 per head for cold selection (including posh sandwiches, salads, chicken skewers and mini quiches etc), and £8 to £10 for hot selections, which also includes salads.
Coffee/tea/water breaks range from £2 to £3.50, depending on if you have biscuits or cake. """
There are a couple of other caterers, I suspect the prices will be similar. I'll get some more details together this week.
Stephen
-- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
2015 mailing list 2015@lists.ldapcon.org https://lists.ldapcon.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/2015
2015 mailing list 2015@lists.ldapcon.org https://lists.ldapcon.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/2015
On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 10:34:41AM +0000, Stephen Quinney wrote:
Subject: [LDAPCon 2015] Catering costs
For reference, LDAPCon 2013 provided hot lunches and also cakes and coffee during breaks. This may be a bit over the top, especially if we are planning a conference dinner!
Andrew
On 3 February 2015 at 12:18, Andrew Findlay <andrew.findlay@skills-1st.co.uk
wrote:
On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 10:34:41AM +0000, Stephen Quinney wrote:
Subject: [LDAPCon 2015] Catering costs
For reference, LDAPCon 2013 provided hot lunches and also cakes and coffee during breaks. This may be a bit over the top, especially if we are planning a conference dinner
Perhaps, but from experience a hot buffet at lunch is a nice touch, and doesn't need to be huge.
Kimball
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