I’m not entirely sure, most of our contracts have a food and beverage minimum, meaning that you need to spend a certain amount of money on catering with the venue. My guess is that we could get contracts without this minimum but they’d be much higher (and you’d get no food, so you’d be wasting money kinda).
re my previous comment (and I noticed Nathan brought it up in another comment, but haven’t seen it addressed), i’m curious what portion of spend comes from drinks / alcohol?
Generally, we get our contracts to have alcohol “by consumption” so we only pay for what we use. My experience with EA events is that people usually don’t drink that much so the portion of spend on alcohol is typically not significant.
I’m not entirely sure, most of our contracts have a food and beverage minimum, meaning that you need to spend a certain amount of money on catering with the venue. My guess is that we could get contracts without this minimum but they’d be much higher (and you’d get no food, so you’d be wasting money kinda).
Roughly how many meals per conference is the minimum?
Probably around three, though we get snacks and drinks (coffee, tea, etc.) too which eats into the minimum spend.
Thanks this is helpful.
re my previous comment (and I noticed Nathan brought it up in another comment, but haven’t seen it addressed), i’m curious what portion of spend comes from drinks / alcohol?
Generally, we get our contracts to have alcohol “by consumption” so we only pay for what we use. My experience with EA events is that people usually don’t drink that much so the portion of spend on alcohol is typically not significant.