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

[Don Spaulding II]

David Goodger wrote:
> [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.
If this means we're converting meat meals to veggie meals, I'm a big 
-1.  If it simply means ordering more veggie meals, without altering the 
number of meated ones, disregard the rest of this rant ;-)

I can get behind over-ordering each type of meal, but don't change the 
ratio of meat/non-meat meals in expectation of people switching.

People indicated their dietary preference at registration.  I'd rather 
we "enforced" that in some way and if people want to eat something 
different, they should make their own arrangements or else make sure 
they aren't taking away a "reserved" meal (where enforced means "a sign 
in front of veggie/vegan/etc meals"  and reserved means "a preference 
indicated at registration time").

As a carnivore by habit, I've "failed-over" to a vegetarian option at a 
conference before and been *very* disappointed (although it also seemed 
eerily similar to the greasy pepper wrap Pete mentioned elsewhere in 
this thread).  If the question boils down to "which type of meal would 
we rather run out of?", don't assume the best answer is meated ones.

Don
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