[TOSprint] Food Woes

[Steve Lime]

What about just using them for breaks and hoofing it for meals? Many hotels have
complementary breakfast these days but doesn't look like that's something they
offer.

Steve

>>> On 2/20/2009 at 12:12 PM, in message
<30fe546d0902201012p11617fdax1048c9d68d2ec5e1 at mail.gmail.com>, Paul Ramsey
<pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> While moving hotels has drastically increased the quality of our
> guestrooms and boardroom without altering the price (yay!) it has also
> drastically increased the cost of hotel-catered food. At the Bond
> Place, I was on track to use our whole budget, and provide lunch and
> coffee for all. At the Radisson, our budget doesn't come remotely
> close ($5600 would cover a breakfast/coffee/lunch/coffee package and
> they'd toss the room in for "free", but we have only $2800).
> 
> The only way to have food in the room is to have it catered. On their
> menu, that means, basically coffee and a "European Continental" buffet
> of breads, meats and cheeses. That's what I have in the budget now.
> 
> http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=plI7bw56S6qHPAj9OEsIMaQ 
> 
> We could simply opt to take no food or bev at the Radisson. There is a
> Tim Hortons and other coffee shops in the area, though obviously the
> pickings are slimmer than if we were fully in the middle of downtown.
> And of course, it's Toronto in early March, so the stroll down the
> block might be less than cozy.
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/d6przj 
> 
> If we choose to self-cater, that leaves $2000 in the budget, for...
> hmm? Two amazing dinners?
> 
> If anyone has any bright ideas, let me know. Failing a consensus, I
> will make, as always, an uninformed executive decision.
> 
> Paul