[MrTechCenter]

A great system that worked for us for meals at competition:

Breakfast: If the hotel offers breakfast, eat there. Otherwise it's a good idea to go to Costco and buy a whole lot of muffins, croissants, fruit, and Sunny D bottles and just have a quick but good breakfast in a hotel room (just keep it clean) before heading to the competition.

Lunch: For lunch, an adult chaperone would collect $3 from everybody and go and get lunch from a fast food place nearby and bring it back so we could eat it outside the competition venue (because they often don't let you eat inside). This makes it quick and easy and maximizes the amount of time that students can be working and preparing at the competition because they don't have to go out and get lunch and come back.

Dinner: We would all go to a local shopping center. From there, everyone is free to go to any place in the shopping center to have dinner. This works very well because it allows everyone to eat whatever they want and with their group of friends and it's easy to keep track of students.


As far as hotel etiquette goes....we aren't really the ones to give advice.