On Tue, 9 May 2006 17:23:42 +0000 (UTC), (Steve
Pope) wrote:

Puester wrote:

Steve Pope wrote:

Assuming the kids earned their pizza coupons, I see no problem
with making it a group event. It's the same number of free
pizzas. If anything, the Pizza Hut gains some economy of
scale by knowing ahead of time when a bunch of coupons are
going to be redeemed.

If a restaurant is set up to feed/seat 50-75 people at a time, you don't
see a problem with a group of 2-3 hundred or more arriving all at once?
Economy of scale???

As I understand it, the school officials called the restaurant
ahead of time to work it out. Presumably any upper limit
on number of kids at a time would be figured out ahead of time.
Any given restauarnat must know how large of a group they
can accomodate. The restaurant should treat this group
same as any other group. To do otherwise is whiny.

I think if it was organised ahead of time it should have been fine...
but if they tried to organise it and the restaurant had a VALID REASON
for saying no, then they should have thought again. Taking the kids in
there en masse when they'd already been told that it wasn't doable was
just plain rude (not to mention a recipe for disaster all round.)

If the coupon didn't say 'get one free personal pizza with the
purchase of one adult meal', well then the restaurant has to just eat
the loss.

I still think it sounds like a neat idea - saves the parents the
hassle of a trip to Pizza Hut (not exactly my idea of gourmet food)
and gives the kids a treat and a reward and gets them off their butts
to read books! It also depends on just how many kids there WERE... was
it fifty, a hundred and fifty, or five hundred? I don't see why it
couldn't have been one one grade level (or even one class) at a time
to break it down into more manageable lots.

"Karen AKA Kajikit" wrote

On Tue, 9 May 2006 03:01:53 -0500, Steve Wertz
wrote:

We used to go to a Thanksgiving Buffet at the Sheraton hotel in
Pittsburgh, PA (1975-1980). You were charged different prices
depending on how much you weighed.

I don't see something like that going over too well these days.

I don't think that would fly nowadays... how much people can eat at a
time doesn't really bear any relationship to their body size. I'd be
MORTIFIED if a restaurant tried to charge me extra because I'm fat -

I'd be interested in seeing a restaurant attempt to weigh me. Yeah,
I know, they just guess your weight. WOW, where do I sign for a
fun dining experience like that!? (laugh) Stupid idea, can't believe
they were serious.

nancy

Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:

As I understand it, the school officials called the restaurant
ahead of time to work it out. Presumably any upper limit
on number of kids at a time would be figured out ahead of time.
Any given restauarnat must know how large of a group they
can accomodate. The restaurant should treat this group
same as any other group. To do otherwise is whiny.


I think if it was organised ahead of time it should have been fine...
but if they tried to organise it and the restaurant had a VALID REASON
for saying no, then they should have thought again. Taking the kids in
there en masse when they'd already been told that it wasn't doable was
just plain rude (not to mention a recipe for disaster all round.)



But a lot of teachers/school officials are really on a different page
when it comes to understanding how a business operates. That is
especially true in my state where the public school teachers are
unionized and tend to have an entitlement mentality.


If the coupon didn't say 'get one free personal pizza with the
purchase of one adult meal', well then the restaurant has to just eat
the loss.

I still think it sounds like a neat idea - saves the parents the
hassle of a trip to Pizza Hut (not exactly my idea of gourmet food)
and gives the kids a treat and a reward and gets them off their butts
to read books! It also depends on just how many kids there WERE... was
it fifty, a hundred and fifty, or five hundred? I don't see why it
couldn't have been one one grade level (or even one class) at a time
to break it down into more manageable lots.

Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:

On Tue, 9 May 2006 17:23:42 +0000 (UTC), (Steve
Pope) wrote:

As I understand it, the school officials called the restaurant
ahead of time to work it out. Presumably any upper limit
on number of kids at a time would be figured out ahead of time.
Any given restauarnat must know how large of a group they
can accomodate. The restaurant should treat this group
same as any other group. To do otherwise is whiny.

I think if it was organised ahead of time it should have been fine...
but if they tried to organise it and the restaurant had a VALID REASON
for saying no, then they should have thought again.

Sure.

Taking the kids in
there en masse when they'd already been told that it wasn't doable was
just plain rude (not to mention a recipe for disaster all round.)

If the coupon didn't say 'get one free personal pizza with the
purchase of one adult meal', well then the restaurant has to just eat
the loss.

That's my thinking too. "No more than two coupons may be used
per party", would put the restaurant in the right. "Must be
accompanied by an adult diner" is not sufficient.

Steve

On Wed, 10 May 2006 12:01:46 -0400, George
wrote:



But a lot of teachers/school officials are really on a different page
when it comes to understanding how a business operates.


You can extend that to real life in general!!

Nancy Young wrote:

"Karen AKA Kajikit" wrote



On Tue, 9 May 2006 03:01:53 -0500, Steve Wertz
wrote:





We used to go to a Thanksgiving Buffet at the Sheraton hotel in
Pittsburgh, PA (1975-1980). You were charged different prices
depending on how much you weighed.

I don't see something like that going over too well these days.



I don't think that would fly nowadays... how much people can eat at a
time doesn't really bear any relationship to their body size. I'd be
MORTIFIED if a restaurant tried to charge me extra because I'm fat -



I'd be interested in seeing a restaurant attempt to weigh me. Yeah,
I know, they just guess your weight. WOW, where do I sign for a
fun dining experience like that!? (laugh) Stupid idea, can't believe
they were serious.

nancy




On our first trip to Fiji in 1988 we went to the resort's lovo - a
traditional style feast of foods cooked in an underground pit on a bed
of heated rocks. Children were admitted at a lower price, but eligiblity
was determined by weight. They literally put the kds on a set of scales
and weighed them before working out how much to charge!

This in a country where, as the locals love to remind tourists, they
used to practice cannibalism! I'm afraid this quaint custom had
disappeared before our second visit, possibly because the resort
management had been taken over by the Swiss (who must surely have
regarded Fiji as a hardship posting).

Christine