No problem, thanks for your thoughts here! I’ll note that in venues where we have a minimum spend, attendees aren’t allowed to bring outside food into the venue unless they have serious allergies. So if we did hand out Soylent/snacks somewhere else, they’d have to consume this on the street or something (which may be a disaster if it’s raining or cold).
Re reserving nearby restaurants — we did this at EAG Bay Area and plan to do it again in the future (we just reserved some restaurant tables but had attendees pay for their own meals). If we were to actually plan meals/do catering at multiple nearby restaurants, that would likely be a lot of work on our end and we probably wouldn’t have capacity to pull it off well.
No problem, thanks for your thoughts here! I’ll note that in venues where we have a minimum spend, attendees aren’t allowed to bring outside food into the venue unless they have serious allergies. So if we did hand out Soylent/snacks somewhere else, they’d have to consume this on the street or something (which may be a disaster if it’s raining or cold).
Re reserving nearby restaurants — we did this at EAG Bay Area and plan to do it again in the future (we just reserved some restaurant tables but had attendees pay for their own meals). If we were to actually plan meals/do catering at multiple nearby restaurants, that would likely be a lot of work on our end and we probably wouldn’t have capacity to pull it off well.