On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Marshall T. Rose wrote: > put another way: how many folks are willing to pay an extra $300 per meeting > to cover the food? A productive compromise would be to retain the break time drinks and perhaps snacks but get rid of the breakfast ... and perhaps the arrival reception food (might be able to package the arrival reception as a buffet with an explicit extra ticket required). In many of the venues I attended IETF meetings at, there was no way that local commercial facilities could server the impulse demand function of all the people getting out of one session and wanting in a short time to begin another. Dave Morris