> For 200
people @ $20/day for food, $16,000 comes out to 4 days. But that
> covers only the days talks are running, and we probably need to figure one
> additional day of food to cover the arrival/departure days, as well as
> breakfast on the day trip day and some costs (TBD) for food on the day trip.
Yes, that's the 4-day estimate from the
"Food" tab. I'll change to a
7-day estimate instead, just to be on the safe side. Though, with so
many good cheap food options nearby, will people want to be eating at
the cafeteria for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day? I guess they
might if it's free.
Probably not - we can mine the data from past conferences to get a better
model for what percentage of attendees will be eating the cafeteria food at
any given time. (We'll want this anyway for purposes of giving estimated
headcounts to the cafeteria staff.)
Right. and for this, I would look at similar cities - e.g. I expect
the Portland food offer (and university cafeteria quality) to be much
closer to New York or Edinburgh more than to most of our other past
venues.