From: Diva Las Vegas organizers (dlvorg@geekbabe.com)
Date: Sat May 27 2006 - 20:03:11 CDT
In this mailing:
Org List
Early mailing
Vote results
Meals
Meals
Raw votes
Administrivia
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Early mailing:
This is being sent out early to announce the vote results and to get
some of the things in queue out.
There will be another ORG mailing shortly featuring the comments on the
BDR topics.
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Vote results:
The tribe has spoken.
1. For Corresponding Secretary:
A. Ginger: 20
B. Amber Michelle: 1
C. Abstain: 1
{invalid}: 1
2. For Moderator:
A. Aiko: 20
B. Abstain: 2
{invalid}: 1
3. For Project Manager:
A. Aiko: 19
B. Abstain: 3
{invalid}: 1
Last vote was received 10:57am CDT Thursday and polls were closed
10:57am CDT on Saturday.
23 total responses were received.
Three invalid votes were received. Clarification was asked on all, two
provided a clarification.
Raw votes and semi-obfuscated Message-ID lines appear below.
Congratulations to Ginger and Aiko. I will be getting together with both
of you shortly to get the processes rolling. (Be careful what you ask
for ...) :)
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Meals:
Nora writes:
>Easier said than done. Yvonne is totally correct in what she says.
>Unfortunately it never seems to work out the way we want it to. I have
>always carefully gone over the exact list that she mentioned in the
>proper handling of our group.
>The restaurants are fully notified in advance of every one of those
>items. I contact them frequently with updates and a few days before I
>get back to them with the final expectations. We have always been
>assured of separate checks and adequate staff. In every case the
>management has assured me that the are prepared.
>Now the time comes and there seems to be a breakdown. Confusion can
>reign when they try to collect individually for drinks. Some of us are
>ok with paying for drinks as we are served while others prefer to pay
>all at once. The management usually tries to accommodate both
>preferences and the confusion starts. We do not remain in one location,
>moving around mingling with others.
>While in every occasion the management assured us that individual
>checks would be given this may not get passed down to the servers. This
>happened twice this year at the Bahama Breeze and Lucky Cheng's.
>When a restaurant is already occupied with their dining number and a
>group of 50-60 arrive it has to put a strain on the kitchen and service
>staff and some problems seem to be inevitable. The best solution seemed
>to be with Suede who were open only for us, provided a shortened menu
>and were prepared for the numbers of attendees. Yet with all of this
>there still were a few problems.
>How many restaurants are there that will close down for the night for
>our group? I doubt if there will be that many.
>These problems do not generally occur with the EON nights but the down
>side is that often some who we would like to spend the evening with
>choose other venues.
>What is the solution? I don't know. But all in all even with the
>problems that have occurred maybe we should just learn to accept them,
>be prepared and just enjoy ourselves.
One thing I do want to say very conspicuously is that I think Nora did
a super job with the various dinner arrangements this year!
Doing group dinners is one of the more tedious jobs with DLV, and I
do think we need to let Nora know that we appreciate it! :)
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Meals:
Dianna writes:
>When I ran a large group dinner (Carluccio's) the manager and I agreed
>it would be best for the kitchen staff to offer a select number of meal
>options and price fixe the event, tax and tip included. I didn't need
>to collect money in advance, I simply made a low estimate of attendees
>so they would have an idea and charged at the door.
>You may recall if you attended you got a coupon ticket to hand to the
>server which was collected when you ordered.... this stopped any
>potential shortage of funds and also took care of the latecomers who
>wished to eat later by letting them take their time getting there and
>not be subject to 'Dinner at Seven sharp".
>If they ran out of our selections the restaurant could simply revert to
>their main menu for the few isolated folks that come late. This worked
>very smoothly for both me and the restaurant.
A scheme like this works fine. First of all, it gives everybody a choice,
albeit one limited somewhat over free-feeding from the main menu.
It also removes payment and collection hassles. It frees servers to do
their primary job of serving, as opposed to cashiering.
I'm sad to see Carluccio's dropped from the DLV lineup. I've been back
there twice over the past year, once with my brother and his friend and
again with two executives from work. In both cases the food and service
were excellent.
Unfortunately they majorly p*ssed off one of our people, and it happens
to be somebody who others (including myself) listen to. Had they done
just a wee bit to satisfy this one customer, I'm sure they would have
seen much more business from us.
Different places have different ways they like to do things, and
I don't think it's realistic to have a one-size-fits-all model for
group dinners. Likewise we can't have a one-size-fits-all set of
expectations for these places.
I would also like to thank Dianna for arranging this three times. We
do need to validate those who perform the more challenging of the
DLV tasks!
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Raw votes:
Message-Id: <200605221236.k4MCavSk088104@
> A. Ginger
> A. Aiko
> A. Aiko
Message-ID: <20060522130226.45118.qmail@
> A. Ginger
> A. Aiko
> A. Aiko
Message-ID: <20060522131347.57070.qmail@
Ginger
Aiko
Aiko
Message-ID: <20060522140809.34845.qmail@
> A. Ginger
> A. Aiko
> A. Aiko
Message-ID: <20060522142527.53962.qmail@
1. Corresponding Secretary: A. Ginger
2. Moderator: Aiko
3. Project Manager: Aiko
Message-ID: <41c.1d482b9.31a320aa@
Please indicate your vote clearly. A- Ginger
Please indicate your vote clearly. A- Aiko
Please indicate your vote clearly.A- Aiko
Message-ID: <20060522162908.32710.qmail@
(Votes not indicated. Clarification requested, not received.)
Message-ID: <20060522144247.6314.qmail@
A. Ginger
A. Aiko
A. Aiko
Message-ID: <BAY109-DAV9B8810350113BD537EC2BC79A0@
1.A
2.A
3.A
Message-ID: <20060522142332.17841.qmail@
A. Ginger X
A. Aiko X
A. Aiko X
Message-Id: <8C84BD87BBAB06A-280-59BD@
question #1 I vote A
question #2 I vote A
question #3 I vote A
Message-ID: <20060522180300.20082.qmail@
For Corresponding Secretary, I vote for Ginger
For Moderator, I vote for Aiko
For Project Manager, I vote for Aiko
Message-ID: <20060522175937.83054.qmail@
1-a
2-a
3-a
Message-ID: <C0985F7B.3EC9%
> A. Ginger
> A. Aiko
> A. Aiko
Message-ID: <26967-4472061C-10418@
1. A
2. A
3. B
Message-ID: <20060522191204.46704.qmail@
A. Ginger
A. Aiko
A. Aiko
Message-ID: <20060522231536.72069.qmail@
A. Ginger
A. Aiko
A. Aiko
Message-ID: <20060523012428.37632.qmail@
> A. Ginger
> A. Aiko
> A. Aiko
Message-ID: <4472A50C.40307@
1=A; 2=A; 3=C
(Clarification requested, received, ABSTAIN intended on 3)
Message-Id: <20060523.090840.28298.1022013@
A. Ginger
A. Aiko
A. Aiko
Message-ID: <44732F12.6050304@
D. write-in:
B. abstain
B. abstain
Clarification requested, received, ABSTAIN intended, counted as such.
Message-Id: <8C84D0646D325D3-948-1F97@
B. Amber MichelleMy Choice is Amber Michell
A. AikoMy choice is Aiko
A. AikoMy choice is Aiko
Message-ID: <20060525163735.cb57cd7cba748d2aea61c3a59ddf5805.45b8ea3ddc.wbe@
1.Ginger
2.Abstain
3.Aiko
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