[Conferences] cheap food

[Vicky Twomey-Lee]

Hi,

We were lucky to find a hotel that can handle our numbers and provide a
dinner buffet, which worked out really well last year. The dinner is still
the most expensive cost for our conference though.

Good luck.

Cheers,

/// Vicky

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On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good luck finding a venue that can hold a reasonable number of people that
> doesn't have minimum catering requirements ;)
>
> On Feb 20, 2012, at 1:49 PM, Roy Hyunjin Han <
> starsareblueandfaraway at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Le 27 juillet 2009 15:11, Catherine Devlin
> > <catherine.devlin at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >> The key is not to be locked to a designated caterer, which most venues
> >> try to do.  CHECK THE CATERING POLICY BEFORE CHOOSING A VENUE!  Such
> >> caterers typically milk their monopolies shamelessly, charging $20+
> >> for even the simplest meal, plus a pint of blood, a kick in the shins,
> >> and a curse upon your immortal soul.
> >
> > Thanks, Catherine.  This is useful advice on pitfalls when organizing
> events.
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