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Re: Bringing Food into Competition Venues
This example is a little off-topic because it concerns an off-season event; however, IMO the way that food concessions and pre-planned meals were handled at the 2006 Indiana Robotics Invitational was exemplary. If every FIRST event could handle food that way, there would be no need to debate this topic on CD.
From what I saw, two of the secret ingredients that made it so easy to get everyone fed at IRI were
1) an excellent HS venue (Lawrence North) and
2) a large, dedicated crew of local volunteers to staff the food lines, tables, concession counters, etc.
I've recommended to my own regional planning committee that we seek a local HS venue as an alternative to the professional arena that we've used for the past four years. The idea was well received and we've started studying options. Maybe we're starting too late to implement this idea for the 2007 season, but I'm still hopeful.
I should have gone to IRI years ago.
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 since 2003
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