[Chicago] [PyCON-Organizers] My visit to the conference hotel

[David Goodger]

[Sean Reifschneider - 2008-03-01 17:41]
> You have to be careful about trying to just meet the vegetarian options,
> because often other people will select a vegetarian option even if they
> aren't vegetarians.  For a variety of reasons including seeing the
> vegetarian options, them looking better than other options, whatever.  I
> say this from personal experience, I'm not a vegetarian but I will often
> select non-meat options for a meal because I don't feel like meat...
> 
> So, trying for exactly enough to meet the vegetarian demand is likely to
> leave some vegetarians disappointed...  And in a pinch, my experience has
> been that there are few meat eaters that won't "fail over" to a vegetarian
> option, if the meat is all gone, than the other way around.  ;-)

Right. Better to go with a healthy proportion of vegetarian-friendly food.

> It may be worth while to have some sort of a sign if we are expecting that
> vegetarian options (or particularly vegan) may be just enough to go around.

If that's the case, yes, definitely.

> I would say: Have all the options available every day and people can do
> their own rotation.  "Ooh, there's a fajita wrap and italian sub, hard
> choice" then the next day I'm stuck with roast beef with no option of the
> one I didn't have the other day.  ;-/

+1

-- 
David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger>

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