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Saturday Waffles! And other joyous events.
« on: September 09, 2010, 02:47:57 am »
The first morning of con. You wake up, terrified. Did you miss something? Did you drink too much last night? Or too little? Your roommates are strewn around and across you, also sleeping. No, they say. No, you didn't miss anything. Also: It's like, 8 in the morning. Go back to bed.

You get out of bed.

You shower. You pat yourself on the back for remembering to shower. You put on clothes (I hope you put on clothes: please do this). You stumble down to the lobby, your stomach growling for something. Anything. FEED ME, it says. You reach for Pocky. NOT THAT, THOUGH. NO MORE POCKY. Just when you're starting to regret teaching your stomach to make complete sentences, you realize that something beautiful is laid out before you.

Waffles.

Fresh waffles.

With syrups and strawberries blueberry sauce and whipped cream.

And it's all vegan! (for vegans, and those of you in the NDK health club :-p)

We're trying to get stuff organized to do this on Saturday, in or near the hotel loby. We have the waffle irons and batter and have or are making all the relevant and delicious sauces. (And also: cutlery and plates and napkins :-p) We might need some help figuring out where to set up so as to not irritate the hotel. If anyone wants to help with that part of it, or if you want to pitch in on other logistics or just moving stuff, lemme know.

If Saturday Waffles works, Sunday Waffles will likely follow.
« Last Edit: September 09, 2010, 02:49:47 am by violet »

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Re: Saturday Waffles! And other joyous events.
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2010, 02:52:55 am »
Unfortunately we can't let you set up your own waffle stations in the hotel. This would violate the contract that NDK has with the hotel regarding catering.

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Re: Saturday Waffles! And other joyous events.
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2010, 03:31:45 am »
Cool idea though!

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Re: Saturday Waffles! And other joyous events.
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2010, 03:49:12 am »
Does it apply only to sold food? We're not selling anything, we're giving the waffles away. We could even give the waffles away outside, somewhere.

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Re: Saturday Waffles! And other joyous events.
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2010, 03:51:49 am »
@Rumor--- I've always made waffles for myself and my roommates and a few friends. I just thought it would be nice to scale up, and give back to the conmunity. Waffles, that is.

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Re: Saturday Waffles! And other joyous events.
« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2010, 07:58:11 am »
Sorry, but it doesn't just apply to selling waffles.

Your waffle iron would be a violation of fire/safety code.  That's also the reason we can't have a cooking panel where the presenter actually cooks things.

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Re: Saturday Waffles! And other joyous events.
« Reply #6 on: September 09, 2010, 09:04:56 am »
Does it apply only to sold food? We're not selling anything, we're giving the waffles away. We could even give the waffles away outside, somewhere.

I've worked with organizations that have catering built in and this isn't enough. They stand to lose pretty good money between the 21,000+ times people some reason spend money on their over priced food, and you offering free food equals lost business. So they, like many others, wrote it in to contracts so they don't have to worry about it in the future, thank some forward thinking lawyer for this. Nothing wrong with it, its just business. Nice idea though

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Re: Saturday Waffles! And other joyous events.
« Reply #7 on: September 09, 2010, 09:26:37 am »
Very cool idea you had there! It would be a great way to bring people at NDK together in a fun way.   I am just sorry that we can't allow it.  However depending on your room size maybe you could make them in you room and eat them there.  You couldn't have hand them out but you could still enjoy the tasty waffles.

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Re: Saturday Waffles! And other joyous events.
« Reply #8 on: September 09, 2010, 09:55:47 am »
As a member of the hotel as well, and I don't say this strictly from a business standpoint, a waffle iron in a hotel room does still constitute a fire hazard. Officially we cannot recommend that you operate a waffle iron in the room.

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Re: Saturday Waffles! And other joyous events.
« Reply #9 on: September 09, 2010, 03:06:00 pm »
Well if you figure out an alternative for this i'l gladly show up for waflez.
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Re: Saturday Waffles! And other joyous events.
« Reply #10 on: September 09, 2010, 05:15:08 pm »
Ah, well. That's understandable.

More waffles for me (us).

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« Reply #11 on: September 09, 2010, 06:39:10 pm »
Maybe you could post your room # on here and a time you will be open for food? As long as you don't get over filled?
Wow! saying that makes me sound almost human!

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Re: Saturday Waffles! And other joyous events.
« Reply #12 on: September 09, 2010, 09:27:57 pm »
Maybe you could post your room # on here and a time you will be open for food? As long as you don't get over filled?

That doesn't solve the aforementioned problems.

Sorry, but the hotel really isn't OK with this kind of thing. That's their standard policy and it won't be changing in the next 48 hours, so I'm going to go ahead and lock this thread.
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