arrivals dinner question

[Brian Mielke]

I spoke with the Bayou and discussed the situation with them.  They do not take reservations, but they can be prepared for a large party to show up at 630-7pm on Sunday night.  I said 10-20 and that was pretty vague to them, so I said I would let them know when I got a more solid count.  I also asked them about special instructions for people from other countries or out of state, since this place is required to card everyone by Utah law.  Everyone will need either a US drivers license or a foreign passport.  They iterated even Canadians would need to have a passport and not just their drivers license. This place does have a full bar so we can order drinks while waiting for tables if necessary.  

It sounds like the Bayou may work for us with a little bit of flexibility for a party up to about 20 in size.  Should I go ahead and just start updating the wiki and asking for a head count for the Bayou?  If we get over 20 people to sign up, I can try to call up some other places too such as Charlie Chows.

Thanks,

Brian

> On Jun 13, 2018, at 14:06, James E Keenan <jkeenan at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> On 06/12/2018 11:15 PM, Brian Mielke via yapc wrote:
>> I just signed up for this mailing list, so I may be repeating something asked/stated earlier so I apologize in advance.
>> A few of us at my company were discussing the arrivals dinner yesterday.  I was informed that there was a request for someone to help organize a venue. Has anyone stepped up for this yet?  If not, I can help by calling restaurants in the area near Little America.  I'd just like a little assistance in attendance estimates.  It sounds like we had about 30 people at the arrivals dinner last year and had quite a few more people at the arrivals dinner in SLC in 2015.
>> Here was a link a coworker dug up for the 2015 arrivals dinner details:
>> http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/wiki?node=PreConferenceActivities
>> Thanks,
>> Brian Mielke
> 
> Brian,
> 
> No, as yet no one has stepped up to the plate.
> 
> https://github.com/perlconference/tpc-2018-slc/wiki/Arrival-Dinner has a link to how we organized this event in 2015.
> 
> I'm attaching the "Call for Arrival Dinner Organizers" post I made to this list on May 26 (probably before you signed up for the list).  It has information about how this event was organized in the past.
> 
> Since we're so close to arrivals day, we might perhaps dispense with my recommendation to negotiate a prix fixe buffet with a restaurant, and instead simply make a reservation for 10 and have people order a la carte.  If by, say, Saturday, we have more than 10 people signed up, we can simply ask for more tables.
> 
> If, for example, you were willing to make a couple of phone calls to restaurants to get the ball rolling, then post on the wiki page above, that would get the ball rolling.
> 
> (You or anyone else interested can contact me off list for further hints.)
> 
> Thank you very much.
> Jim Keenan
> <call-for-arrivals-dinner-organizers.txt>